Cryptic crossword No 3,681
Tue 14 Jul 2026, set byMagpieLinguist
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Across
- Young bird weaving towel (5)
- Former wine bear dug up (9)
- Enormous king returned, holding car check after mother (7)
- Queue for drinks is a funny way to end ? (9)
- Canned air shaken up for ceremonial performance (9)
- Unwell avian, they say, is criminal (7)
- Garbled answer cut short removes dependancy (5)
- Sailors sensing mutinies (7)
- Artisan reskilled to become singer (7)
- Adult, unusually mature: it's giving unpolished (7)
- American uncle made his case, tried (7)
- Blank expression of corrupt faker and Charlie penned by Gothic writer (5,4)
- Meadow Street's the smallest one (5)
- County coming back in song titles, unevenly (5)
Down
- Ian, clumsily surrounding tube and mile, for old students (6)
- Wool town in Gloucestershire (6)
- Stimulant signs, I reckon (8)
- Act 4 direction: not passive (6)
- English wine in France holding strange wilt for unpleasant counterpart? (4,4)
- Deer 'n worker - not much happening (8)
- Arrive, carrying car for trade (8)
- Scrambles total less, endlessly (6)
- Rising airs around computer network and drug for country (3,5)
- Kind of maths from complicated game theory? Ah, lost! (8)
- Evil from sibling holding in (8)
- One acted strangely offering up funny story (8)
- Outcast is new, RIP A-ha (6)
- Moist sway over politician (6)
- Simple mule and pencil scattered (6)
- Botched finale showing signs of growth (2,4)
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