Cryptic crossword No 3,690
Wed 15 Jul 2026, set byJeremysIron
Special Instructions: Theme isn't in honour of any anniversary, just a result of me writing a clue and wanting a puzzle to put it in. Feedback always welcome!
Across
- Popular tipple largely unopened after certain event (9)
- Following setter's departure, John becomes available (2,3)
- Psst...here could be journalists and more! (3,5)
- Gang members, macho types, guarding new church (8)
- Skilled worker from university breaking silence (5)
- Letters from saboteur, as I anticipated - perpetual adversary? (7)
- Perhaps joining forces to dismiss temptation (7)
- Some equals afforded further "equality", worryingly: only leaders (1,3)
- Famed artwork, X-rated, by George (4,3)
- Engender actor and peer performing together (9)
- Australian resident briefly takes final term of Chem 101? (4)
- Carlyle posturing for all to see (7)
- Projection occasionally spoiled conclusion of Interstellar (4)
- For instance, Eric's book The French Girl's Stomach (5)
- To begin with, ducks have this (4)
Down
- One's sometimes lucky to have cold fan (6)
- Rock musician picked up bug (6)
- Unjust treatment as award erroneously given to lousy ale (1,3,4)
- Live burying dead, but not sick (4)
- Short-sleeved shirt left in dump (4)
- Get rebuffed about nationalist publication of ill repute (6)
- Attempt orientation to find desert (4)
- "Ride stud roughly"? That's most colourful (8)
- Island seen as centrepiece in ascendant experience (4)
- How food might be cooked in heaven (2,4)
- Model, "Lizzie", grabbed by bottom and pinched (5)
- Zero reason initially to stop cat fight; maybe later (8)
- Agency keeps a sharp claw in European region (9)
- Complete clip potentially broadcast (5)
- Abruptly eliminate male to nab gold, constituting dispossession? (8)
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