Cryptic crossword No 3,663
Thu 9 Jul 2026, set byOzpiper
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Across
- Sold that stone off, being out of fashion (3,3)
- Provocateurs in old French city empty refuges (8)
- Surgical standards in management code? (9,6)
- Level? - almost never! (4,3)
- Naughty Nate is a smoker! (4)
- Recovery of former Spanish relative in person (10)
- Examiner to inquire endlessly - is corrupt! (10)
- Occasionally Troy wins settlement (4)
- Private investigation gives Chief Executive a bad name (5)
- Grandee overturns ban, provoking a stink (5)
- To be, or not to be perhaps, seeking ego in superior position (8)
- Climbers smuggle in alternative keys (7)
- Lender solicited buying disaster (8,7)
- Traveller knocked about roughly, leading to decease (6)
Down
- Quickly protected (2,1,8)
- Powerless as well as broken, shell mostly in tatters - gutted! (9)
- ...describing sound of hedgehog (5)
- Young wine in France given water, protected from ultraviolet overhead (7)
- Comedian holding pillboxes, perhaps offering mystery item (7)
- Arab probably has Gershwin on British quiz show (5)
- Here in France, setter is over 101! (3)
- Changed over public transport gone tits up on Aussie pick-up date (11)
- Damage business game for pioneering explorer (5,4)
- Still verbally decline to accompany Stanley with noise... (15)
- Gift dispatched ahead of time? (7)
- Feel sorry for Herb (3)
- Ban mid-November's fabled ship (7)
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