Cryptic crossword No 3,861
Sun 30 Aug 2026, set bylom
5
Across
- Type of scandal found in company records initially. Rash, lacking leadership (10)
- Press discovered in unfair onslaught (4)
- Stressful future perhaps (5)
- It welcomes you for what sounds like a dull finish (3)
- It takes 8 electrons etc. to put right (5)
- Quentin Folliot? Or so we hear (9)
- Biblical character springs from Cain first then Abel strangely (5)
- His PA is confused, silly (5)
- Register latest of quakes (8)
- Peeping Tom in time gets more vulgar (8)
- Proportion of degenerate art's in then out (5)
- Health & Safety workers (5)
- Bananas seem moist? Not always (9)
- Chess for example - I've bishops at each end (5)
- Pray middle eastern country comes back (3)
- New Order, love? 1984 maybe (5)
- Cottons on to timeless pieces (4)
- Coach puts header round post (10)
Down
- Top of the morning according to tinker (6)
- OK. Storing TB infected fertiliser could lead to flare-up (8)
- Rodent outwardly accepts a...rodent (3)
- Basic element of half-life (7)
- Delicate recipes to provide nourishment (5)
- Lead bolt (3)
- It's no good, cut down (7)
- Intellectual stripped right in front of bio-research leaders. How to take it all in (8)
- A sharp reprimand and where it's recorded (8)
- Sounds like Bristolian habits (6)
- Cat has an afterthought inside cable drum (7)
- Mistrustful EU runs amok (6)
- Tony holds girl upside down for rooftop reception (7)
- Several daily portions recommended - five for example (3)
- Ancient navigator captures peninsula (8)
- Cured a thousand in redeployed domes (6)
- Principally source of light and radiation from the sun (5)
- Old soldier gives creature comforts (3)
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