Cryptic crossword No 3,775
Fri 7 Aug 2026, set byFez
Special Instructions: Unexpected check button results? No confetti? Don't worry - it's not you, it's me. As suggested by two of their answers, I messed up 10 clues ... or did I? More in comments ...
Across
- Huge waste, fossil fuel imports (8)
- Every so often clinic is charged with a vacuous emphasis on good looks (7)
- Essentially, low-security prisoner secures November early release, originally in error (7)
- Vulgar, the f-word? (4)
- Unsteady bit is sealed off (11)
- Flamboyant styles are worn by unrestrained diva with confidence (11)
- Enjoy the same thing (4)
- Constant racket interrupting first-class Tom Hanks movie (7)
- Dark revolutionary with ginger features (5)
- Conversation with old fellow abruptly ends in an unbecoming squabble (8)
- Childhood home, far from ordinary (7)
- Slight hint of schadenfreude one gives for just a limited time (7)
- Cleaner following narrow street to house number 50 (7)
- Content to leave bashful junior to make a mistake (7)
- Become aware of large gain by Labour (5)
Down
- Female evangelist is impressed by new focus of loyal servant (7)
- They're fair initially, but later on European engages in ultimately underhand tactics (7)
- Ban keeps learner out of north Kent comprehensive (7)
- Flyer checks in at terminal, departs as scheduled (7)
- Turn up riding on monster (4)
- Find out if case is dismissed by Thursday (7)
- Happy at last, iconic racehorse returning to top stable (8)
- Antarctic seabird heading to harbour, as it'll be hot otherwise (10)
- Soup served oddly ... with crushed garlic, to be precise (8)
- Making clear you need ID to get into party? (7)
- Just cycling around in French city (4)
- Simpleton to casually improvise in jazz session (6)
- Picked up wood, rubbish and toys chucked by the water's edge (5,5)
- Realise you shouldn't have accepted metal rings (6)
- Joke includes line, say, about queen and plumber's assistant? (7)
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