Cryptic crossword No 3,840
Tue 25 Aug 2026, set byBenDR
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Across
- Regularly doom city reign, sadly, based on faith (9)
- In old arthouse movie, Luke fought him (5)
- See 21ac
- Because of win, leaders of good team wearing rings (5,2)
- Third note in Dunne composition still in ground (7)
- Origins of zoonosis are in remote equatorial country in 1976 (5)
- Builder's helper contacting board before being fired? (7)
- Basically, 23 down 12 14 (3)
- Pathogen found in six from Rome and three from Russia (5)
- Sent mug the wrong way with passes neither to the left nor right (7)
- Question medical authority (3)
- Hopefully you only suffer its fire briefly ... or not eternally! (5)
- Study with Cambridge University, as let back in (7)
- Grab in a frenzy at this price! (7)
- Pride that takes over for "the GOAT"? (3)
- He covers rise / run formula (7)
- Something you might treat with seaside arrangement (7)
- New country shut as U.N. do reform (5,5)
- A soldier taken on by host starting to worry and stick with power (5,4)
Down
- Final letter taking on being classified by location (5)
- Guts in bird - one large and small (9)
- Somehow straw hides in this murky mixture? (9)
- Country primarily over north central Angola? (5)
- Ecosystems often threatened as frontiers shifted (11)
- Full-on gran genuinely enjoys looking well ahead (4,5)
- Cryptically "do"... by blood, sweat, tears? (4,5)
- Exploiting work of genius, with no end of trouble (5)
- A part of liver turned up 20 (5)
- Part of kidney exhibited aperture (3)
- Is that man or rhesus trapped in sorcery involving great loss of 16 down? (11)
- Parts of lymphatic system start to need dose administered (5)
- Part of Israel approve genocide essentially returning (5)
- Some heavy weather mostly in store, accepted by farm dweller (9)
- A group of musicians working with Queen, as Who left (9)
- Mapping toxic 30's origins a form of entertainment in the west? (3)
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