Cryptic crossword No 3,781
Sat 8 Aug 2026, set byShorty
5
Across
- Ran out of clothes (8)
- Jazz, so bluesy, said to soothe after honker is expelled (5,3)
- Novelist’s drunken stupor (6)
- Highlander so mismanaged investment (12)
- VW Explorer? (4)
- Creep renting out notorious Royal (6,6)
- I discovered it in Greece (6)
- A cognac originally in bottled spirits bureaux (8)
- Extremes of desperate father’s longing (6)
- Possibly dislocate back from macabre vendetta (4)
- Gangster stole one (8)
- Want party to swap leaders? It’s a hostile reaction from The Observer (8)
- Spooner’s crèche outside Bath? (3,3)
- Type of bob or crew cut? (8)
Down
- Near a very quiet fish (8)
- Grace maybe heartless crime fighter (6)
- Criminal who stalks - they are seen on television (4,5)
- Overall trouble is, I messed around (10)
- Count of French bastille beginning to dig (6)
- When in Rome, our thing is a dodgy outfit (4,6)
- Boorish people love runner up (4)
- Movie star ruined a lover's debut (6,9)
- Relation’s benign, holding on to inheritance in the end (5)
- Stand and deliver! (4)
- Numbers following this jerk for all to see in jeans (9)
- Fare across lake and swamp (5)
- Report of obscure jungle explorer’s location next to Paddington (4,4)
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