Cryptic crossword No 3,697
Fri 17 Jul 2026, set byemaherself
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Special Instructions: Intermediate difficulty with a few trickier clues. Feedback appreciated!
Across
- Ownership is justice (6)
- Magic performance by cheating psychiatrist hiding band cut in half (9)
- Fat cat getting close to the French aristocrat (5)
- Container of light sources and analog precursor to dating apps? (9)
- Primitive aspect shown with withered lily caught as picturesque (7)
- The most insignificant, having right to become most beautiful (9)
- Timeless indigenous headland shows freshness (9)
- Height of Buddhist school: it hurts at first (6)
- Handholding special prayer (5)
- Associate Fellow slick and wealthy (8)
- Cool hanger that is carrying about one hundred and fifty (6)
- Add honey, say, and make a deal harder to refuse? (7)
- Picture that is placed outside of short publication (5)
- Bird also is allowed on the radio (6)
- Adhere without Charlie or get out! (5)
- Drug-infused trippy kernels resulting in people on the ground (8)
Down
- Shakespeare's furiously flirty, can put out (9)
- Get frisky without knight, taking wine to undergo death (7)
- Tourist destination in part of Alcatraz. I biked from the South! (5)
- Board holds contest that can be credited (9)
- Crazy lunatic! He is dishonest (9)
- Next: a clue about triumph (9)
- European judge expects clean trial at first for release (5)
- Farewell from yours truly after public notice issued before international coalition (5)
- Policeman from the age before tin? (6)
- Provide base with witty remark (5)
- Revolutionary Mao with six making up ground rules (6)
- Corrupt senator's betrayal (7)
- Spreads pressure as one direction is lost and a new picked up (6)
- Bends wagers with new replacement for model (6)
- That guy by one gym going wild to show dominance (8)
- Once taken by evil, playing becomes cruelty (8)
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