Cryptic crossword No 3,801
Sat 15 Aug 2026, set byMeles
Special Instructions: Eight across solutions require transformation before entry in the grid, with one further across solution indicating what to do to them
Across
- Route over green regularly a source of complaint (8)
- Not a fan of that era (5)
- Everyone's less edgy to find one who's generally skilled (3-7)
- Raise again, check, then fold? (10)
- Adapting is integral to career (8)
- Unfriendly, edging closer to the average way of behaving (9)
- These prehistoric houses brought about disease (6)
- Thrashes side in front of away section (5)
- Having opposing views and ready to take on the Spanish king (9)
- Blast rude children, losing head (4)
- Previously connected every now and then (4)
- Church leader's fine leaving associate in charge (6)
- Take action to improve but it happens how I designed (4,4,5)
Down
- Made untidy dumps seem almost ordered (6,2)
- Make a mistake entering boundless Asian mountain range (6)
- They were used to call tribes across South American river (8)
- Every odd bug grew, each stripping lush greenery (7)
- Drag along pair downing whiskey (3)
- Knight errant can tell story from the heart (8)
- Drunkenly sway and dance in Scotland (4)
- Form oversight (4)
- Apprehension as cycling was painful in the past (5)
- Rising gas from mouth guard put on the counter (9)
- Position artwork, making the base square (6)
- Surviving with experience primarily rather than a degree (6)
- Impressive display of design with gear shifting back-to-back (9)
- Caught fire? Send water down this (5)
- Madonna's appeal? (4,4)
- A little evasive about age? (3)
- Forecast advertising order (7)
- Fruit perhaps not available, run out upset (6)
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