Cryptic crossword No 3,777
Fri 7 Aug 2026, set bymetagloria
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Special Instructions: This puzzle is significantly harder (particularly in terms of the vocabulary and general knowledge) than my usual puzzles. Break out the dictionary or search engine if you need to!
Across
- Pal briefly occupying unknown space, greeting initially shady medium for meditative practice (3,8)
- Couple chasing me with legendary Pokémon (6)
- Drink very loudly on college square with no degree (5)
- Algerian music style Croatia regularly sampled (3)
- Due to current volcano expelling its contents, left professor's aide in charge (7)
- Be more ignorant, dropping set at first, following score for old Bahamian tennis ace (4,7)
- One suppressing start of rebellion after what Frenchman said (7)
- I'll give up oxygen for good source of protein (3)
- Trouble opening returned copy - Italian's first opera about clowns (9)
- Appealing voided experiment, pharmaceutical stocks took a nosedive (9)
- Pilgrimage of Jack and Juliett beyond heart of Sahara (4)
- Moving away from internet search engine that suppresses women (6)
- Select some galette as your piece of cake (4)
- Times article first to tout fashionable exercises for Socrates' ball-and-chain? (9)
- Despite my best efforts, essay remains unfinished one month before June (3,2,1,3)
- Inspect a long concealed claw (5)
Down
- Pair of former lovers separated by maiden after originally tasting southwestern fare? (3-3)
- Old-fashioned doctor ditches Charlie for ecstasy and half of valium (8)
- Stifles flow of concerning fruit (6)
- "This stinks" - beginning of review on The Fifth Element (5)
- Component of toilet tank is aloft loosely, hollow, with cap of vinyl inside (5,5)
- Wife is entering race? That's unexpected (5)
- Fully prepared learner entered least disorganized (3,3)
- Ladies perhaps with quiet kink? (4)
- One in gross rage, furious! (9)
- Consumed by anxiety, compose endlessly from organ (10)
- Woman touring Britain on holiday (8)
- After tea, average artist starting to look for thick brush (9)
- Judge interrupting referendum, condemning liberal to removal by force (8)
- Starbuck's shipmate docked Victoria, perhaps on half-broken pier, for example (8)
- With carbonation, case of lemonade to fail (6)
- Knives from certain Africans slashing head (4)
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