Cryptic crossword No 3,826
Sun 23 Aug 2026, set byUmpire
Special Instructions: Celebrating a return this weekend, twenty particular three-letter strings are ignored by wordplay in twenty clues.
Across
- South American emperor goes after everyone following revolution (7)
- Little growth allowed on dam (7)
- Danish, perhaps, worry detective reportedly (6)
- Run over summit in Scotland (5)
- Current facts (4)
- Age student finally leaves college (3)
- You shouldn't have turned around (5)
- Deadly fellow becomes omen, ultimately, of birth (5)
- Accomplished dealer is shuffling (8)
- Dessert made from soft eggs (7)
- Opening a church (6)
- Initially copy aloof style of music superstar in Hull (8)
- Unwanted messages Mike deleted in spring (3)
- Perhaps lust overcomes old Irish woman (7)
- Fine routine one company uses removing borders of shrub (9)
- Chase children around deserted playground surface (9)
- Group of countries prevent king leaving (4)
- Some partridges everybody gutted (5)
Down
- Poison nurse in charge (7)
- Remove hood from clown here, free at last (10)
- Retiring party (7)
- Commercial plugs laptop being the same (4-5)
- Vote against supporting paper being entirely Latin (2,4)
- Do eat tofu prepared in steam? (3-2-4)
- Having banned golf, African country's more cheerful (7)
- Superhero from Krypton? That's not right (4)
- Sussex port hotel a locale with 40% off (8)
- Moon beginning to pacify those without homes (6)
- Vatican loo renovated in preparation for occupation (10)
- American pine (4)
- Orange no longer called green (5)
- Former prisoners expected shots so turned up (8)
- English note with part put in code (7)
- Massage accepted by adult holidaying here? (5)
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