Cryptic crossword No 3,819
Thu 20 Aug 2026, set byPrimus
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Across
- Awkwardly rotate to hide artist (8)
- Standard sandwiches harm support (6)
- Sedate shellfish when rearranging innards (4)
- Footwear pedlar lies dreadfully (10)
- Pair regressing day by day (4)
- Star author penetrating block in church (6)
- Give title as Icy Rocks (10)
- Gratuitous sex obscuring old behind irritates (8)
- Entrance doctor, concealing spectacles (4)
- One imbibes less than half of absinthe or ale half-heartedly (8)
- Start to upbraid cold husband (6)
- Fierce woman losing head after backsliding traitor leaves (8)
- Female network say back-projection helping stability (6)
- Intelligence that can be measured by nits (10)
- Betting system taken from Esperanto teacher (4)
- Setter might come from this town marketplace (4,6)
Down
- Agreed finally to turn right leading to wood (3)
- Original reference letter (9)
- Do excessive papers on counter (5)
- Starts to hoot inanely, being entertained by way-out show (7)
- Artisans initially assemble to enlarge entry for law officer (8,7)
- Sailors drinking whenever given figurehead duties (7)
- Large amounts of obstruction on highways detaining Member of Parliament (11)
- Half-cut novelist with horse-cloth coming up with Rabelaisian character (9)
- Sally out of bounds embracing women instead of large tool (3)
- The French supporting expensive tower (7)
- Purple colour seen during recurring clinical illness (5)
- Allowing commencement of torture without becoming unkind (11)
- Refuge has time to accept naked Greta? (7)
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