Cryptic crossword No 3,780
Sat 8 Aug 2026, set byOrinoco
Special Instructions: Is it a flower of cruciverbalists, perhaps?
Across
- Pierce and Richard left in class (7)
- Fanfare when singer holds youth party (11)
- Robbing banks, gunman skids, dropping papers, and exposes himself (7)
- Evolutionist drawing most of Tousled Cardinal (9)
- Actor following Polish band to country house retreat? (11)
- Schedule turn (4)
- Dismal Scottish courier loses coat (5)
- Finally, let's eat wagyu breed beefcake (4)
- Simple Trevor mostly withdrawn (5)
- Cracked lone pun (or one of nine?) (7)
- Raise covering letters to back Congress (10)
- First bit of animation switched for appeal (10)
- Blatant flashing! (7)
- Boy good about Royal Academy at first forcibly testing musical ability (9)
Down
- Sleep around? Reckless! (5)
- Vessels are from earliest generation (7,8)
- Biomass European sampled for rubber (7)
- In class, Aileen is very musical (5)
- Italian grandma dead, said figure (7)
- Spot progress in second childhood? (6)
- Scully's partner exchanged first-hand snuff (6)
- Friday night: Romeo starts off sex frenzies! (6)
- Learning by doing test on one sail, stupidly lowering mass to the bottom? (15)
- Moral code of president agreeing to marry? (7)
- Safe to eat beef in broken tin with no cloudy coating? (3-5)
- A sign to start typing fast? (6)
- Girl thievin', you say? Wrong! (8)
- Hard time leaving unfinished dice game for no-good Chinese banker (7)
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