Cryptic crossword No 3,808
Tue 18 Aug 2026, set byDrumcraft
Special Instructions: My Puzzle #43
Across
- Beast comes in to scalp a Canadian! (6)
- Get large unfinished house (6)
- Combine first bit of melon with the Spanish date (4)
- Fellow with dog gets in one leading person to sort out nails (10)
- Kiss one desperate man returning to universal paradise (6)
- Lone flyer returns with fruit (8)
- Press and TV can begin genuinely negotiating (9)
- Cry at sea is always about heaving ocean initially (4)
- Starts to house untrained temporary staff in sheds (4)
- He writes start of story about flower found around Tyneside (9)
- Fresh pear I fit into drink (8)
- Hate unstructured NY time! (6)
- In my opinion hot tones be wicked! (2,2,6)
- Before weekend see brownish duck (4)
- Scholars’ supporters follow you in Paris (6)
- Shy cop gets changed for film (6)
Down
- First drink of the day? It affects none badly (7,6)
- Film of best gallery (7)
- Home one gets behind university in Italian city (5)
- Search you and me before tree starts to burn (7)
- Little-known artist comes back and is able to begin exhibiting (6)
- Oh, he’s sore about getting equine footwear (9)
- Firm Greek characters initially may be against year in old Russia (7)
- Stop useless, terrible English rural council leaders going inside (9)
- Move awful photo before sex (3,2,2)
- I teased out plans (7)
- Reduce one colour in engraving of first letters (3,4)
- Patsy gets out rings inside (6)
- Simple identification of medical practitioner’s wine (5)
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