Cryptic crossword No 3,653
Sun 5 Jul 2026, set byPrimus
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Special Instructions: 28 15 links to thematic Nina
Across
- Drug found when Stokes passed water (5)
- Shoddy clothes- they never work (4)
- Mindless drawing, not the first by Hackney perhaps in package of stuff (8)
- After nightfall count material escaping detection (4,6)
- Kinky old ape suggesting a gem (6)
- Generate dull noise originally thumping heavy units downward (4)
- Concupiscence beginning to linger in the same place: near Naomi's heart (6)
- Himalayan cross on serving men pasta (4)
- President known by many ultimately (7)
- Your focus in navy: start to destroy Sandwich (5)
- Telephone round syndicate (4)
- New major's sheep is aromatic (8)
- Ends with displaced promises (5)
- Foolishly I wreck book on basket-making (10)
- Ring compound when All Blacks enter competition once oddly covered up (7)
Down
- United in East German overthrow (4)
- While broadcasting, rush for disputed land (5)
- Wail - last page gone to clean bottom (4)
- Turning smoke with a bit of mirrors hiding right illusions (5)
- Slandered chaotic Oldham debut after forgetting line (10)
- Evil child igiven to stories alleges in indirect manner (7)
- Holiday cover for essentials on atoll (6)
- Prisoner facing jail trapped between peacekeepers and gangster being like Lothario (10)
- One enjoying books on acting knocked back Chianti? (6)
- Gooseberries perhaps take walks following suggestion of beau (8)
- Increasingly evasive losing head in hearing (4)
- Left home abandoning husband for contemptible fellow (5)
- Random doodle transporting artist to land of myth (8)
- Multiple balls small sibling sent up (4)
- Dire dullard finally studied with head of Economics Department (7)
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