Cryptic crossword No 3,851
Fri 28 Aug 2026, set byPurlescent
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Across
- Horus endlessly complaining about the time. (4)
- Street with golf player's love hotel gets the spirit. (5)
- Dark Irish source of drunken ale fun? (2,4)
- Canine dreams are a falsehood, you say? Talk with human resources, Oscar, you harpy's bottom. (11)
- Taking Ian out of Sorcerer's Alternate... with speed. What strange manipulative practices? (6)
- Always suspect, research, and examine visions. (8)
- Grecian charity is famed for brilliance! (6)
- European Southern Observatory cites right mess gone south - mysterious... (8)
- Dead space underground used for bottomless e-money from Sierra? (6)
- How endlessly tall is 30% of a manticore... take this for protection? (8)
- Complete satellite image of bare bottom! (4,4)
- A ceremony that shows the spirit ending. (4)
- Magic zombie initially left in charge here. (4)
- Rigorous notes for hunched science fellow (4)
- Fortune teller gives thanks for decomposition. (5)
Down
- Mischievous island spirits in tow, right? (4)
- Casting a spell for switching out imperial system before Alabama's Odyssean performance? (12)
- Sufferer of 15a is Cajun-Creole creature's cousin, perhaps! (9,3)
- Middle of midday, approximately, after getting audible directions from asking "do you speak the language of my pointy-eared brethren?" (3,6)
- Boss from hell, perhaps? Should have a Xerox, first. (4)
- Egyptian rebound girl oddly in step on tango? (4)
- Visualiser combines arms of Thoth, the legs of Eros, and energy with the heart of Hera?! (3,4)
- Sounds like Loveable TV Broad with cat's coat is having a hell of a time? (7)
- He punishes wrongdoing with Asian meat replacement audibly? (5)
- Powerfully transformative element vanishes the body of monochrome equine with ink, I heard. (4)
- Old purifying furnace ran a hot mess? (7)
- Did you hear about the moon insect? Utterly insane! (7)
- She'll lose face saying it's a wig - very unpleasant consequences indeed! (4,2,3)
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