Cryptic crossword No 3,847
Thu 27 Aug 2026, set bySalamander
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Across
- Questions troublemakers in possession of dodgy gun (7)
- US president heads international party for Japanese code of practice (7)
- This filmmaker has made "violent" into an art (9)
- Novello yearned primarily to tickle this (5)
- Single daughter carrying weight initially? (11)
- Chronic fatigue for audience for Hollywood award (4)
- Government altering of criteria gets old (9)
- God-given authority to deduce accurately (6,5)
- Incentives having limits potentially keeps in check underperformers, at first (7)
- Outspoken, windy German loathed being excused (10)
- See 21a
- Leg dumped right in the auditorium? (5,4)
- Command to start over coming out of head office (4,3,3)
- Capital Television air obituary in part (7)
Down
- Some nag everyone about diet (5)
- Set out mind-reading's strong focus on internal structures (15)
- Crueler and more delicious taking time following focus of slander (7)
- Faltering mob role coming to flourish again (7)
- Rare Nintendo through needing repair (4,2,3,6)
- Settle jumpy horse? (4,2)
- Shut up sewer out of order (4,4)
- Manipulate Georgia with neglect (8)
- i has one of these (6)
- Shun getting drunk beneath 6- or 4-armed god (6)
- On vacation tequila, concoct idiotic plan (6)
- It's an accepted truth in academia: complex nuclei forgo cytoplasm ultimately (5)
- Tipping contents of spindly fish (7)
- On reflection, America is a regret for a large part of the world (7)
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