Cryptic crossword No 3,866
Wed 2 Sep 2026, set byBenDR
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Across
- Hot craft, not cold! (7)
- Drug plant to mostly fund company (7)
- Medium of some 19 in city (5)
- Not one deign art sexy when turned around with unknowns removed... it's not in touch any more (9)
- Still alive bread ingredient as extracted (3)
- Play sure nicer to act with lover (11)
- It brought relief when you finally abandoned broken values (5)
- Bar is mostly a financial business (3)
- Really dislikes unseemly haste (5)
- A sting, drive-developing? (11)
- And so on and on and on some dogs play this heartily (3)
- Inter alia, naked lust ran country with 17 across on 10 19 on 11 and 14 since 1976 (9)
- Magazine reporting on fashion and new 14 host (5)
- He provided the fastest deliveries, topping hundred odd mph... scourge of nervous openers! (7)
- Empirical studies, essential parts of physics & molecular chemistry, converged and indicated disease (7)
Down
- See 26dn
- Biases about each possible source of harmful fumes (8)
- Missing 8 accessory? Hospital removed! (6)
- Respiratory illness could rule out union (4)
- One bed in nine for drug taken by 8 (8)
- Government directed strange taunts about previous head of state (5,3)
- A "bro" accepts first and last hug in Latino neighbourhood (6)
- Summer in the Pyrenees included tragic climb using ecstasy and modern 3 product (1,9)
- Red's told off for immature ones (8)
- Big target mostly getting hit (5)
- Medium is evil: note corruption! (10)
- Bring about mostly inactive restriction (8)
- Sterilised fish by dipping tails in ice arrangement (8)
- Most unusual arrest, with one taken down only slightly (6)
- Criminal maims community leaders (5)
- Telephoned to call off swapping ends as consequence of 8 (4,6)
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