Cryptic crossword No 3,858
Sun 30 Aug 2026, set byOrinoco
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Across
- Angry carpenter (6)
- Leading a little kingdom in Antarctica (8)
- In a funny way, scratching head absentmindedly (8)
- Greg at Taskmaster reveals events (8)
- Creatures in wood not coming back (8)
- Exciting maths tension? Surprise! (12)
- See 12d
- About half of most vans initially licensed strictly for disposals (8)
- Hide delivery of mattress (3,3)
- See 10a
- Drug buddy lies about computer (6)
- Subsequent profit limits unknown (4)
- Crawlers feed supporters (12)
- Director's cloak, perhaps? (5,1,4)
Down
- We hear they stick up buildings! (4,6,8)
- Local Saturnalia parties (10)
- How to get daters in the press? (9)
- Tiger Bay (6)
- Nice thermometers shattered leaving cold care facilities (10,5)
- Noble leaves annually for Orient, perhaps getting lathered up! (6)
- Heavyweight royal switched university (9)
- Look for mounting conflict inside territorial borders (5)
- Problematic opiate hit cut short somewhere in Africa (8)
- Medical show in 8's country shortly, from our perspective is at rock bottom! (4)
- Beat doubt over book left out in a storm (5)
- Spontaneous snooze cut short: most audacious! (8)
- Ring hospital over surgery (4)
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