Cryptic crossword No 3,853
Fri 28 Aug 2026, set byDynamite
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Across
- She has hope as Chinese superstar wins gold (7)
- Italian villa stores smith's tool (5)
- Old musical with burning effigies and voodoo implements? (4,3,5)
- Trying to import oil for one deficient in energy (9)
- Shocking: a dick litters in national park (4,8)
- A half-pint is no big deal (5,4)
- Gods ascend, returning after year (5)
- Icon made from core of lepidolite (4)
- Sense it's not a severe illness (10)
- Peek for a warning to trespassers? (4,3)
- First man arises from bottom of sea, flippin' angry (4)
- Girls informed before getting specs (10)
- Please keep Friday vacant, Saturday is to take precedence (7)
- Victim escaping from trap to get help (7)
Down
- Heads of Cambridge received excellent Doctors of Philosophy (5)
- Cutting wine with a great deal of beer (6)
- If boner up uncomfortably: painkillers! (9)
- Help American behind on his tip-free taxes to start (6)
- One reeks after recycling oil (8)
- Carbonated gin cocktail follows unfinished spirit (9)
- Breaks down detective's answer and finally responds (9)
- Ms. Springfield needs a brush down (5)
- Managed to cut part of kidnapper's demand (6)
- Tragic ship, Italian, at sea with American on board (9)
- Ease with which judge accepts forgery (6)
- Stacked plates firstly at bistro, on the counter (5)
- Propose behind small barn (6)
- Island's my source of fissile uranium (5)
- God, in autumn, causes this (8)
- Gloss essential to cover up accidents (6)
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