Cryptic crossword No 3,825
Sat 22 Aug 2026, set byGumboot
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Across
- Bottomless tipple fan drunk but breezy (8)
- Fairground game flips a large bear (6)
- Site team tweaked quotation (8)
- Hardy character gets back from Post Office for pudding (6)
- ES journalists love strong, stimulating brew (8)
- Bird superlatively luxurious in flavour but not one 'Mmm' (7)
- Pub snack made from vegetable by enthusiast (6)
- Unquiet anguish about a reptile (6)
- First lady's absorbed article after fifty pages (6)
- Bet I'd be upset when sea level drops (3,4)
- Lost Anzac inspires some poetry (6)
- See Timon ruined; short interval (8)
- Initially Marple understatedly getting murder solved spoke quietly (8)
- Top cake money for really cool treat (3,5)
Down
- Motive? Not insanity (6)
- House admirably protected by Ring (8)
- Adored mad, mad ride (7)
- Frees knot, pants dropping down so temperature can be taken (6)
- Papal decree - and in Latin! - during newsflash (8)
- Idealistic in nature, Augustus for example has time in charge (8)
- Family men treat boils by giving up bread, say (6)
- Choose gripping writer about Old Norse antagonist (8)
- Pashmina cut and crumpled in accident (6)
- More frequently used laundry product with cap off (7)
- Lost city cut off at last and cold in ocean (8)
- Don't take them out of their shells: they're secure in singular society (6)
- The Case of the Brewer's Vines in which arsenic is found in genteel eateries (8)
- Ruler of the Winds, Grandpa liable to deal you sounds at the bottom (6)
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