Cryptic crossword No 3,662
Thu 9 Jul 2026, set byHasslethymi
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Special Instructions: First published in 7 Directory, Preston Pages and West of the Clee magazines, plus www.stokestmilborough.info (August 2026)
Across
- Moronic broadcast showing COVID variant (7)
- Type of radiation detected in bubbling magma (5)
- It could maybe be the claret I spilled (7)
- Hiding away from others, Anna quit ring spinning (12)
- Two boys grabbing youth's top in front of the Spanish part of a cathedral (4,6)
- Fuel runs out before Ollie gets organised (6,3)
- Wish to get a bishop's seal of approval (7)
- Permitting little bird to fly into winding ginnel (9)
- Digested topsy-turvy letter in Greek (3)
- Fully assembled rooftop totem (4,3,2,3)
- Assist in an identification (3)
- Show's lead and performers finally all made something improvised on the beach (4,6)
- Top dog starts to attack little people horsing around (5)
- Analysed spoken recording revealing excessive bureaucracy (3,4)
Down
- Make greenhouse gas outside to produce synthetic opioid (9)
- Disparage question going in for Labour waste (8)
- One subject describing an allergic reaction (6)
- Smidgeon held back by Kara Tointon (4)
- Oscillate tops of wireless internet gadgets getting location errors (6)
- Martin's fussing around over the final part of the regalia (8)
- Letter in a different alphabet comes from the teaching assistant (5)
- Noisy electric whisk in testing stage (4)
- Enjoying the nightlife? Ten hot members have! (2,3,4)
- Sort out high-pitched cover for Motorhead (6)
- An artist represented Icarus with primarily abstract Monkey puzzle trees (10)
- Forbidden territory where Chinese board games are banned?! (2-2,4)
- Be noticeably different from Spooner's endangered animal foundation (5,5)
- As far as you can go in Britain's state transport (5,3)
- Society girl digested argument (6)
- Talked about king departing where a river meets the sea (5)
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