Cryptic crossword No 3,863
Mon 31 Aug 2026, set byBaz
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Across
- Emphasize nothing at home's working (4,2,2)
- Investigate? Not I, unfortunately - see it's acceptable first (4,4)
- Devious contralto sung with AI, getting compliments (15)
- Determined part of poached egg oddly on the turn (6)
- Career of minister taking direction (6)
- Sounds like cat's in stable (4)
- Maybe she's grasping for each name? (6,4)
- Fit to return to isle (4)
- Station, somewhere to go after drink (8)
- Drenched, therefore cleric given space (6)
- Scandal, perhaps, with Baz in cell (6)
- Desire for income following conclusion of bursary (8)
- Observer's short article - one way to get quietly cultured (5,5)
Down
- Ensembles lacking safety measures? (6)
- Wow - dog's nose wiggled! (8)
- Protective shield, in Australia a single hen? (5,5)
- Doing without leave, carrying the can (10)
- Imagine I left in disarray, a mystery (6)
- Chinese capital arrived at by engineers with new key in car (8)
- Instrument initially going up in pitch (6)
- Marge, possibly, arranges drapes (6)
- Region Cockney may pronounce more dangerous (4)
- Limp, wearing tattered sari, to island (3,5)
- Ronnie tell on you being drunk? No way! (3,2,4,6)
- Robots with Dior's design (8)
- Lift child with energy (4)
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