Cryptic crossword No 3,831
Sun 23 Aug 2026, set byPrak
Special Instructions: The title of this crossword is "Paranoid"
Across
- New York region developed sea diets (4,4)
- Seabird swallows gold element in one? (3,3)
- Detective Marple initially got into awkward predicaments (6)
- Snake I call Hopeful (8)
- Space for manoeuvre in dance studio? (6,4)
- Bond listened to Asian (4)
- Drinking buddy? Absolutely! (7)
- Romancer only half over first lover (7)
- Player expected to do well in Bullock movie - no pressure (4)
- All sat down to break rule in chemistry (7,3)
- Unpleasant aspect of government school punishment in America (8)
- Remove restraints from international body, peril ultimately remains (6)
- DJ to sign gear occasionally for new recruit (6)
- Buy in art supply in refined manner (8)
Down
- Tips from newly appointed professor of linguistics in Bay City (6)
- One encountered upside down entry on list (4)
- Performed bad magic, like this sorceror? (10)
- Figure's endless pain under curse (7)
- Ex-tart runs around showing paperwork every year (3,7)
- Nationals setter published Fleming on Sunday (8)
- Instrument of pagan Rodin sculpted (5,5)
- Mother and child abandoning last elephant incantation (5,5)
- Spread beyond boundaries of exotic grove on bank (8)
- Experience defeat in trophy - so near! (5,2)
- Pillock's collecting alien goods (6)
- Get remuneration from each fleet (4)
- Bit of soil in trouser fluff (4)
- On some hippopotamuses driven north (4)
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