Cryptic crossword No 3,862
Sun 30 Aug 2026, set byGennaro
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Special Instructions: 3d 24d, making reference to a 20a, utters a hidden quote
Across
- Consider carefully revolutionary art and poetry (8)
- Wading birds in Britain inhabited South and East Sussex initially (6)
- Year beset by unhappy recurrent times (4)
- Point in Norway Thor abandoned (5)
- Restrain teammate on vacation, enthralled by S & M (4)
- Fetch from churning river unpenned steer (8)
- Feature of flower covering head of big cat (6)
- Long Beach eroding to some extent (4)
- Underlying problem found in child after diagnostic scan (5)
- First-class bass is French (4)
- Disappear with church plunder (6)
- Run through Eraserhead, dropping last two characters in performance (8)
- Withdraw from region (4)
- Dialect identification is often mistaken to begin with (5)
- Deceive director prior to university turning over record (4)
- American fuel awfully convenient (6)
- Disbelief regularly seen after popular journalist becomes distasteful (8)
Down
- Line from King covering freedom from difficulty (6)
- Events robbed of books in previous days (4)
- Melody in audition with son, perhaps (4)
- Monarch seen in photos according to rumour (6)
- Young woman curt with husband and quiet with mum, making a confused mixture of things (8)
- Reportedly draws together fools (4)
- Arbitrators expressing hesitation amid charges following depleted revenue (8)
- Penetrate the interior of barren territory (5)
- Falling to pieces with close pal suffering (8)
- Yielding bulk of provisions unwise ultimately (6)
- Rainbow goddess originally inspires retiring gentleman (4)
- Old official periodically tries riding Adam's mate (5)
- Note taste of braised Iowa shin (5)
- Honestly! Cold wine added to big belly every second! (8)
- Village bowler, say, welcoming matches with Lancashire and Essex principally (6)
- Quarrel robust, upset ruffian at his core (4)
- Daughter with grave message for wimp (4)
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