Cryptic crossword No 3,860
Sun 30 Aug 2026, set byHasslethymi
Special Instructions: Puzzle title: Ringing Rounds
(Clues are styled for practitioners of English-style change ringing on church bells)
Across
- Clear method without separate internal places (4-4)
- One number - six five zero - is related to a living organism (2,4)
- Trebles belonging to an individual (4)
- Flipping crap ring! (4)
- Opening leads of Ipswich never turn ringers on (5)
- Ring Pudsey with extraordinary care? It is like something Wagnerian (8)
- Small child with essentially poor winter transport (6)
- Fine about a second horse race (4)
- Chime with eager constituents (5)
- Wheels of an unringable three, oak primarily (4)
- Oscar has the first sign of tinnitus and it is leading to inflammation of the ear (6)
- Cicero, maybe, is attracted to second half of trio's choral work (8)
- Address open lead with speed (5)
- Stick of crumbly chocolate doesn't come to an end (4)
- A beginner gets initially to ring between treble and tenor (4)
- Sir! Go around! (His lead is monstrous) (6)
- Way to ring Rutland with Ashtead lead head? Neither too quickly nor too slowly (8)
Down
- Make accessible love cage at university (4,2)
- Hot lad's composition is tediously familiar (3-3)
- I hear ringing a pair of bells is an indicator of upward progress (4)
- Kiln unearthed in Coventry (4)
- Absolute beginner gets to cover erratically around Ulster, for example (8)
- Man, possibly, gets noticed only in the second half of Carlisle (4)
- Tries to go around and have another attempt (5)
- It's carried around by Jason's ship (5)
- Eager lot interfered with my other half... (5,3)
- ...as well as musical-sounding elements (4)
- Excellent youngster's love for a form of marital arts (6)
- Three members of choir taken back (4)
- How a VIP might go around? I'm following after long lead, duck (4)
- Which work has Original lead ends? (3)
- Initially ask for restyled curly hairdo (4)
- Burden paid for by you and me (4)
- Lubrication ordinarily improved long leads (3)
- Final stage of metamorphosis? Aim to come around and start ringing! (5)
- Completely swallowed by Dorothy's dog? (2,4)
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