Cryptic crossword No 3,782
Sun 9 Aug 2026, set byBluejacket
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Special Instructions: WARNING: These clues all involve some (more or less obscure) random pieces of general knowledge.
Across
- Female rabbits injected with small quantities of medicine (5)
- Result of body-building, maybe using genetic material over anabolic hormone (7)
- Coastal republic in South America seizes power—7th-century king to become cabinetmaker (11)
- Backsliding accent gets Zenda hero unveiled as Rudolf Rassendyll? (9)
- African nation dumping diamonds in Assam? (3)
- Criminal led yob to invite trouble in street outside courthouse (3,6)
- Twenty-four scruples when screening family-friendly film (5)
- Developing child admits bladder issue—affliction's back (9)
- Italian conductor spends nickels to see Puccini opera (5)
- Be scolded as Scrooge's clerk, displaying no resistance (5,2)
- Online-accessible dictionary aware of losing two nouns in crash (9)
- Opening hotel in Garibaldi's birthplace (5)
- Faces Beefeater officers crossing Fleet Street, heading for Islington (11)
- Organ helping to balance audio recording of Sibelius? (3)
Down
- Leaderless, large-scale "townsman's uprising" in the Dutch national anthem? (8)
- Sound of fabulous loser in 60s musical (4)
- British rugby player's loss: number-one upset (4)
- Single worldwide heritage agency evaluated Flushing area (10)
- Large numbers of French country dances requiring first couple to switch roles (10)
- Bard work's incomplete setting, beach, is south of a Russian river (5,3,6)
- Game involving lead characters from e.g. Sky comedy, ultimately (1,3)
- Murmur as Dove soap finally in supermarket (2-2)
- Settle earnings after featuring brand of cleaning products (6)
- Second relative of King Arthur left with northernmost dukedom (10)
- Pistol inventor pens ad copy (4,6)
- Hip hop gesture reflected line in camp Billie Eilish song (3,3)
- Give out papers written up by Elizabethan poet, mostly (8)
- Perhaps atelier mixed up Rossetti and others (3-11)
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