Cryptic crossword No 3,867
Wed 2 Sep 2026, set byPrimus
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Across
- Within oil-rigs wenches rejected paper suppliers (8)
- Girl using speed initially admitted to hospital (5)
- Duck followed by grim aroma (5)
- Balance naked clutching ropes to show unctuous servility (8)
- With home clueing requiring day to replace energy (9)
- High-flyer's league becoming disunited in turmoil (5)
- Colourless people ban oils for cooking (7)
- Post cream confronted by uncovered nappy (11)
- School year introduced by a scoundrel: Primus recoiling (7)
- Lover cycling around hall regularly in altogether (7)
- Change after moving left to right (5)
- Dean receiving fine angrily getting good and loud (9)
- Princess backing overtures from isolated nation state (7)
Down
- Discreet sex accepted by law officers for the most part (7)
- Disagreement over story excluding females giving grounds for litigation (10)
- Bacteria aid revolting protozoa (8)
- Stars overwhelmed by festival most liable to blubber (8)
- Wound tartan up periodically with old lady (6)
- Swallow going north to find seal (4)
- Band being supported by representation ultimately lacking money (8)
- Daily riots creating camaraderie (10)
- Is one briefly controlling game in square? (6)
- Fasten second-best trousers under pressure (5)
- Nearly all songs turned out as jingles (7)
- Hymn has colonial type on edge (6)
- Extremely short poem inspired by crux of theory (4,2)
- Wet from dip in river? On the contrary (4)
- Pictures minced meat under this, perhaps (8)
- Ditch odd bits of chain mail (5)
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