Cryptic crossword No 3,649
Sun 5 Jul 2026, set byOrinoco
Special Instructions: There's one slightly off-colour surface in 9a/10a, for which apologies!
Across
- Lawyer's keeping liberal king back, gaining expertise (6)
- Substance found in delicatessen ceiling (7)
- Riddler cross after gym class outside hotel (6)
- Start vault and skip event! (6,4)
- Significant amount (7)
- Assistant (via expert) adjusts potential gains (5,7)
- Wizards walk with orcs, unbelievably (8)
- Orinoco's hot? Sort of (3)
- Prevent sociopath hiding affairs (6)
- Half of sofa provides support (3)
- Specialist gibberish in college, without chatter (12)
- Mushroom market? (10)
- ...minge: a naughty mystery! (6)
- Confused after shaving firm, natural... (8)
Down
- As the piper is playing, they write in stone (10)
- For negative standing, it's actually positive! (6)
- Examine part of Tuscany (4)
- Tense crocodiles perhaps leaving river by shifting soft fibres (8)
- Old racketeer is a woman? (4)
- The first amendment describes what Mario does in audition? (4,6)
- Dismal, bilious guru I left behind upset (10)
- Underground worker heard bird (5)
- Mistakes George for drummer Ringo: producer apologises at last (6)
- Interrogate Pierre, asking "Who?" "Not known!" (4)
- Bite in up-and-coming tabbouleh cafe? (4)
- Warehouse erected to hide top of really large missiles (8)
- One of fifty haka fans, alas, going half-naked? (6)
- Loud, hackneyed singer (5)
- Hunk starts to dance: overexcited ladies look on, panting (6)
- Key transfers for Apollo and Artemis, perhaps? (10)
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