Cryptic crossword No 3,753
Fri 31 Jul 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: One seeking to be 10d might discover solace elsewhere in the grid
Across
- Vital teak supply forthcoming (9)
- Cellist disrobed for TV detective (5)
- Fixed penalty detailed in act (7)
- Something plucked out of the air? (4,4)
- Pitched barrel ends every so often (5)
- ‘Improvement’ overcoming socialist’s apathy (7)
- Grain ovens missing central section (4)
- Consider feeble knight (5)
- Basically East Anglian Council hanged individually (4)
- Eloquent writer and speaker’s barred (4)
- Horsemen of Golgotha left later (7)
- Regency novel ‘exceptionally dire farce’ (9)
- Picked up having sex, you’d pose? (8)
- Trick map occasionally baffled Mounties (4)
- Modesty code cryptically indicated (7)
Down
- Disqualified ice dancer cut up inside (5)
- Welsh girl picking up a trim from Shrewsbury? (8)
- Water linking regions of Iraq and UAR (4)
- Africa’s not about misguided hunting expedition (6)
- Stool maybe effect of LSD overdose (6)
- Bluff about magazine (4)
- How queen produced litter (8)
- I’m a keynote figure! (5)
- Chamomile reputedly affecting sloppy worker (8)
- Nottingham team’s van on street (6)
- AI’s influenced typical supermarket layout (6)
- Place for animals returning to submerge finally in mud (4)
- Experienced roofers use it (4)
- Pros seen altering feedback (8)
- Confidentially elected soldier (2,7)
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