Cryptic crossword No 3,870
Thu 3 Sep 2026, set byPodger
Special Instructions: Populating the grid will reveal Podger's potted CV
Across
- Fellow that is exceptionally kind (8)
- Trouble caused by forward leads to Botswana Rugby Union getting upset (7)
- Elected official lacks force - in legal terms, it's concerning (2,2)
- Cross about being knocked back, becoming increasingly profane (7)
- One area of bishop's work largely constrains Podger's foolish actions (8)
- Seasoning of hot dog possibly being abandoned by America (4)
- Balk at contraceptive device after bible classes (6)
- Girl occasionally feels crushed by chest pain (8)
- Magistrate gives up golf, needing surgery for bones (9)
- Might banker twerk naked? (5)
- Chunter on about small club (9)
- A thousand Chinese people, a Scotsman and an African (8)
- Doctor's fourth mistake creates panic (6)
- Creep! Rat! (5)
Down
- Create new version of trendy flat discovered in Split (8)
- Get into the mind of student after disorderly sit-in (6)
- Mark and John cycling in Cancun on vacation (5)
- Food colouring in chicken dinner, not starter (9)
- Statesman initially orders a negroni cocktail (9)
- A standard part of governing is never u-turning (6)
- British Museum donor returns to claim bit of gold - bother! (6)
- Darko Pancev finally developed into a prolific scorer (6)
- New Zealander headed local tribe (3)
- Hack is extremely sour about the First Lady (5)
- Go round California with old painter (7)
- English bishop reveals sin (3)
- International call consumes the majority of one evening (7)
- Struggling in French, you succeeded with support (8)
- Revolutionary Renault with a new lubrication device (6)
- Shrapnel found in ship including stern (6)
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