Cryptic crossword No 3,735
Mon 27 Jul 2026, set byChlorine
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Special Instructions: My attempt at a 'Monday' crossword - enjoy!
Across
- Before speaking, one made by 12 the 18 8? (10)
- Butcher maybe leaves Cleopatra confused, one with vision (6)
- Jaunt to German spa town experience that one might have after taking acid? (3,4)
- Youth on the rise, collecting unemployment benefit (10)
- Four score like a cube? (6)
- Lacking in iron, I mean, dizzy in air-conditioning (7)
- King and queen bored by "I'm not sure", usual attitude to originally Asian fruit (7)
- Earns tip when drunk, carries out another coat (8)
- Pregnancy stage concealing unwanted pouch (4)
- Proportion of wins secures cast when upset (7,4)
- Bikini wet? I cope somehow (3-5)
- Orange County: peak America in the main, it sucks (7)
- Ancient penpal returning from Honolulu, apparently (4)
Down
- Portion of food consumed in untidy lair, one third maybe? (10)
- Cephalopod loses papers - everything - in sudden storm (6)
- Roman poet's diary eliminating yours and mine, in favour of uncovered duvet (7)
- Gives approval, hiding dreadful mess - it's what examiners do (11)
- Hill's prominent feature sat on scraps of thin zebra printed cloth (6)
- Mooning over letters from matador in gold (7)
- Purveyors of TNT etc for animated character making explosive starts (4)
- A dentist might ask for this scan, with Chlorine over-bathing in sun (7)
- Cooling device that man puts in suitcase, delivered storage belts round the middle (10)
- Recklessly tore gift, never mind (6,2)
- Turning point - cross it (4)
- Solved - done! Luck? Not exactly (8)
- Visionary supergroup comprising Korean popstar and Nile Rodgers & co? (7)
Chlorine has provided annotated solutions for this crossword.
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