Cryptic crossword No 3,871
Thu 3 Sep 2026, set byPentman
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Across
- Choice about time for procedure (9)
- Japanese with ointments for places where arteries get blocked possibly? (9)
- Test provided for design (5)
- Rule on McIlroy's lead being lost from conceded short putt (6)
- Surplus degree course cut (7)
- He quits Capri hotel actively sweltering (8)
- Long-suffering I left, that's clear (6)
- Exploding meteor is uninteresting (8)
- Allowed old lady to join Edward (7)
- In retrospect Yiddish tribe describes origin (5)
- Some applaud English poet (5)
- High sea in France beginning to recede quickly at last (5)
- Scrooge a bit less elated at first becomes totally dejected (9)
- Hostile Red agents disrupted (9)
Down
- Adjusts course and sees tour avoiding Sweden re-organised to cross river (8)
- Exemplary Northern girl's admitted to Channel Islands college (7)
- Missing ball finally, agitated Easter European Lendl shows anger (6)
- They receive and send soldiers to apprehend overthrown old queen (8)
- Some ketchup supplies cut (4)
- Author has attempt to produce metrical composition (6)
- Rubbish returned by the Spanish in package (6)
- Resistance from right caught in lie (8)
- Cut support for partner (6)
- Child accumulates poems (7)
- Imitates policeman that is small (6)
- Chemical fertiliser revealed in manure analysis (4)
- Catastrophic rift in Home Counties causes warfare (6)
- O2 is requiring help to return with Tom in charge (8)
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