Cryptic crossword No 3,655
Tue 7 Jul 2026, set byOsmanthus
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Across
- Creature seen up a pole perhaps (5)
- Animal desire fills naked chap (5)
- Associate's name (8)
- Physical work, e.g. waste disposal (6,8)
- Just be quiet Al for a change (9)
- Initially only Universal backing Disney protagonist's ban (6)
- Essential, popular books about this place (8)
- Root has a hundred replacing tail-enders in haste (8)
- Detectives search Old Boy university recently upset (14)
- Drink and riot before church (6)
- Late-starting oarsman needs this to come first (5)
- Prone to feeling disgust in particular (9)
- Olympian, guy with a hot body (5,3)
- Parisan you half fancy quietly delivers flower (5)
Down
- Writer who almost profited from penning poem (9)
- King? Are you on the phone with the French King? (5)
- The setter felt Nina possibly childish (9)
- State institution? The opposite! (6,6)
- Shortly beginning at new time outside (5)
- Flogged top dairy product (7,5)
- One's working years (4)
- Collapse coming down mountainside (9)
- Belch in boozer uptown (5)
- Sex pro and soldiers in sober exchange (3,3,3)
- Friend put away by relatively mean judge (5)
- Misplaced talc? Rub in lotion (9)
- Preposterous fools getting complacent (4)
- Well-known family (9)
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