Cryptic crossword No 3,802
Sat 15 Aug 2026, set byJeremysIron
Special Instructions: The image I've chosen gives a subtle clue as to what to expect from this puzzle (not a theme!). Feedback always welcome!
Across
- Provides stimulation from drug stashed in secret containers (10)
- Woodcutter, definitely Russian, recoiling in confusion (4)
- Unsettled a withdrawn young woman with fixed routine (9)
- Out cycling, goes to deliver rugs (7)
- "Keep away from danger", radical surf adage (9)
- I didn't catch you checking earth to find grain (5)
- Festive date has Mum squeezing into tiny size (4)
- Sang praises of former Hamlet lead periodically (7)
- Starts to suspect perhaps Home and Away's derivative (4-3)
- Nimble infiltrators, notorious Japanese agents at fringes? (5)
- Malice consumes neglected singles? Nonsense (15)
- Share note about what winds customers up: prices, maybe (10)
- Interminable delay near islands, reportedly in Hawaiian region (7)
Down
- Brave duke fighting tirelessly among others (6)
- Blowing top in refusal to accept dismissal (8)
- Character and composure giving proof of authenticity (10)
- Potentially, Elon and Jeff infest Mars foolishly (5,5)
- Symbol of rank covered up by certain GIs nightly (8)
- Boozer flushing lavatory after unloading vomit (4)
- Deity essentially sleazebag's delusion (4)
- Prompts delivered for lines (6)
- Displaying hostility, destabilise using a coup (10)
- Star of Casablanca? Where? (6)
- Zone surrounding sources of occasional lactation? (6)
- Dispute about papers that may presage unpaid leave (6)
- Abundance of 21a left to go to seed (6)
- Following outspoken strikes, they finally like workers' output? (4)
- Employee at supermarket pockets food (4)
- Spring-clean out of boredom, possibly with grave expression? (4,2,4)
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