Cryptic crossword No 3,676
Mon 13 Jul 2026, set byemaherself
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Special Instructions: Quiptic/Monday difficulty, I hope, with a little secret theme?
Across
- Journalist is in contact with inventor (6)
- Loudly, woodland spirit scrutinizes caricature (8)
- Reorganize Spooner's legume shelf (6)
- Rock band with second-class copy (5)
- These Mahjong tiles blow! (5)
- Extremist created by unknown energy to a great extent (6)
- "Pitcher nearly lost," expresses Twitter (6)
- Presented soldier inside armour (6)
- Vegetable and mash (6)
- Scream as setter is eaten by ogre from cinema (6)
- Two mayors fighting for roads (9)
- Pieces of dry cans with nothing inside (8)
- Tariff given back by one dealing with mania (8)
- Eleven guys, each fronting Nero's lead, are fair and precise (8)
- Fivesome emerging from quiet tent getting rowdy (9)
- We hear fool dying to take off (6)
Down
- Haunts Jack with regularly dropped onion stash (6)
- Naughtily undress with no chubbiness (9)
- Good sense to replace nickel with iron for security (6)
- Natural, perhaps, for Cindy Lee to rock n' roll (3-8)
- All together boxing only below the belt? (11)
- Counter-attack violently orchestrated at atelier (9)
- Abruptly ending story about Hook (5)
- A tractor is surprisingly noble (10)
- It takes years originally to become desirable (4)
- First lady recognized from both sides (3)
- Free if one scales the wall? (2,3,5)
- Short relative in care of final letter (3)
- Casino episode featuring returning worker (4)
- Whiskey and iodine for each mobile screen cleaner? (5)
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