Cryptic crossword No 3,736
Mon 27 Jul 2026, set byOrinoco
Special Instructions: This started out as an attempt to set a gentler, Quiptic puzzle without resorting (no pun intended) to loads of anagrams - I'd be grateful if you'd let me know if I've hit the brief. Thanks!
Across
- Cheesy film? (12)
- Dirty character (Charles, maybe) went over and told tales (6)
- Spanish Friends adaptation: Monica invents gazillions of scallop starters (6)
- Inmate's ring around copper pillar (8)
- Check over special effects rotated in MGM logo? (3,3)
- How Sisyphus passes time with Mick Jagger? (7,5)
- Grade fruit (6)
- First Lady's holding book parties (6)
- Genuine miracles stun Nepalese, essentially (6)
- Push facial hair to overlap feathers (4,4)
- Guide a soldier smuggled into umpteenth city (8)
- Academic French I suffer almost all of August (8)
Down
- Old queen courted non-English comedian (8,4)
- Perhaps 5 or 10 containers of powerful, unfamiliar alcohol (6)
- Respect Bill Marsh (6)
- Spot a fellow, top class footballer (8)
- Openly having a pint - perhaps down most of it? (2,6)
- Commission Leo, perhaps, to broadcast (6)
- Corporate barrister covering up letter (4)
- Least fancy bra set around (6)
- Has relishes (6)
- See 6d
- In tresses, a nit is emerging clean (8)
- Records attempt to make work of art (8)
- Tent hire terribly unlucky? (8)
- For comfort, swarm the barricades (6)
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