Cryptic crossword No 3,680
Tue 14 Jul 2026, set byMandolinho
Special Instructions: Happy Bastille day !
Across
- Set tea out in grounds. (6)
- Correspond to meet again when exiled. (8)
- Reserve, briefly unaccounted for, accepts a Nice bed. (7)
- Starting late, change direction after Avignon bridge for castle. (10)
- Raising the stakes produces eruptions here. (4)
- Success a bit like a 20 across? (7)
- Chinese rebellion proclaimed by group to secretarial department. (6,4)
- Later, Sir surprisingly gives second chances. (8)
- Lack of progress detected within Sandinista sisterhood. (6)
- Embrace old writer. (4)
- Revolutionary Month sees Communist leader engaged in fresh reboot. (7)
- Say nothing inside country about this month. (3,8)
- Letter posted outside shelter fosters collaboration. (7)
Down
- 2 down’s father flipped over international crisis. (4)
- Lack of purpose results in neglect. (8)
- Paradoxically, reading this might have calmed things down. (4,3)
- Sporting venue where Barbie doll is instructed according to Spooner. (6,5)
- Reportedly wrongly endorses visionaries. (7)
- Cheered after African emperor died. (6)
- English uniform found in ranges of colours for insignia. (10)
- Long live leaders of virtue, industry, valour and energy! (4)
- Call made on Parisian 9 down for parity. (7)
- Essentially, this to Richelieu was momentous. (8)
- Extremely lucky tribe resettled internally gets freedom. (7)
- “Death enables glory” revealed Goddess of War. (6)
- The French, removed from productive land rise up in wave of protests. (4,6)
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