Cryptic crossword No 3,659
Tue 7 Jul 2026, set byBenDR
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Across
- Lithium and copper bond with tip of metal brand as regulation additive (9)
- For each one winning silver, Mossad killed several with this device (5)
- Insensitive, bizarre "fun" having one fish bite head off another (9)
- Not hard to lose head and endlessly lump together refugees pursuing this (6)
- Arguing over Nessie's accommodation of household employee (9)
- Dummy who turns up around military base (9)
- Write in stone "despicable at heart" (4)
- Another ungulate emerging from caribou rebirth (6)
- Die cast: this means the end? Oddly, with challenge, could be vacated (5,8)
- Cultural headwear beginning to be removed after bus turned away from city centre (8)
- A 2 down musician and Yellow Brick Road musician carrying fish (9)
- Report of explosion around second of 2s, which could clear things up (5)
- Long rejected fashions which are eyesores (5)
- Ben D. R. died, tragically immobilised (9)
- See 9ac
- International pact essentially reversed, and board was less flexible because of this (4)
Down
- See 21dn
- See 6dn
- Famous royal thus framed by fellow in famous city square (7)
- Gustav's harem upset about line (6)
- See 21d
- Checks around old city, e.g. at troubled end of the line, for 21 23 2s (10)
- Metals appearing symbolically in 11 for some re 21 2 17 (others got 9) (4)
- Violent terrors seek coups; taking time out they carried explosives in the 21 2 17 (8,7)
- Ties girls up, which is most awful (9)
- Schemes see grim destruction (7)
- Uncovered vase with ends oddly flipped (10)
- One leads thousands by speech in defiance of ethical norms (9)
- Deadly game with mystery spell? (7)
- Quiet temptation which comes from above, quagmires that trap doctor in grim destructive schemes (6,5,8)
- Pointed attack upsets clubs (4)
- Vital liquid 17 'let' out of dreadful openings? (5)
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