Cryptic crossword No 3,859
Sun 30 Aug 2026, set byFettle
Special Instructions: ***
Across
- Reptile in French dept. let one slide to the front (6)
- Divine Dent ditched foxtrot for tango (6)
- Caesar’s month taking no flipping prisoners (7)
- Historic flyer endorsed liquor from Midwest town (6,2,2,5)
- Throw capital around for every penguin (7)
- E type Jags vacate ring (7,3)
- Pen Mousetrap sort of fighting Academy Award winner (4)
- Frustration obliterates a mint piece (10)
- Mack the Knife in 3-D performance (10,5)
- Many eyes on bird Gregory pulled over top Mexican dish (7)
- 501 megacycles? (4)
- Suffering cold Barça keeper drops 3rd, 4th & 6th for Spain turning stomach (6)
- Fake worker bee product beyond Piccadilly Approach (6)
- Taxi fare? (7)
Down
- Old Lady of Threadneedle St.’s bookstore (7,4)
- Vegetable’s garbage in garbage out ending (6)
- E.g., punning on the fly swatting (7,2)
- Crafty Clouseau towards the right (6)
- Study form to trap people on guy's odds (8)
- River ace slipped past Swiss monkey's companion (9)
- Elizabeth I, Queen in theatre cheap seats (8)
- Pet poncho explodes in the style of West End Girls (9)
- Prep Turkey as rapper joins MI5 (5)
- Do Princess, model, slag and goddess (9)
- Unsavoury Russian games sponsored by chewing gum (11)
- Sounds magazine's competition (5)
- Cutting intro Binface skewers tragic cock (5)
- Rugby body dogging about old Greek island (5)
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