Cryptic crossword No 3,712
Tue 21 Jul 2026, set byDrumcraft
Special Instructions: My Puzzle #39
Across
- Cold, brash and obscure (5)
- Jockeys’ addenda (6)
- I have followed short leader with prisoner (7)
- Old queen gets to wash that female scholar (9)
- Urge one politician to reject the French... (5)
- ...Son wears nothing in France having got up (5)
- Stop broadcast and ask a person to be miserable! (9)
- Refines empty theory with integrity (7)
- Not cried when dirty son left (6)
- Lines initially spoken by brown final character at front of auditorium (6)
- British university involved in rather banal accolade (7)
- Flyer crashes near a pole! (9)
- Pressure to remove uniform garment (5)
- Ready for a swinging fox trot (2,3,4)
- Gets all upset in final stretch (4,3)
- Part of loss I announced named legendary Irish bard (6)
Down
- Royal family returns to hospital for renewal (7)
- Takes out fruit (5)
- Flag of a house in New Orleans? (6,3)
- Each ape automatically holds headgear (7)
- He wrote about islands with grace (5)
- Spontaneous little devil has frolic with you in Paris! (9)
- Eggheads jump into flowing Nile to get girl (6)
- Go back inside song room (6)
- Infamous corruption is back in debt-free surroundings! (9)
- Strange quality drew in New England state senate leaders (9)
- One scholar’s energy is terrific! (7)
- Make an attempt to dine inside convention (6)
- Denise was upset about one being brought in carefully (5,2)
- Penny gets to clear out piece of land (6)
- Starts to pore over documents and lectures about feet (5)
- Music producer accepts return of little woman’s character (5)
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