Cryptic crossword No 3,872
Fri 4 Sep 2026, set bySisyphus
Special Instructions: A hidden message to those who have been, are or may yet be set in stone here
Across
- Sketch of Princess taking a pulse (7)
- Historical flood catastrophic (2,3)
- Counterpart of radius in a tube (4)
- So getting Greek letter by text causes quibbles (8)
- “On reflection, art’s for everyone getting into it” (Collected Words of the Buddha) (5)
- Hedges of maze, initially labyrinthine, become rationale of the cryptic mathematical setter? (10)
- I’m good, quiet and mischievous (6)
- South American bird runs for US abandoning short log (4)
- She gives so much, in return she takes only a part (5)
- Red Sea port essentially an Icelandic inspiration (4)
- Crossword mania overwhelms old fighter (8)
- Creating pariahs in group of actors caught up in revelation of sexual orientation (10)
- Lack of agreement in hideout (4)
- Desperate men pant for setting star (hopefully!) (7)
- Rip open country club’s message finally in the morning (6)
Down
- Prosthetics Society partially indisposed (4)
- Anglo-German Ville de Genève- metropolis linked to sickly fog and fen (4,2,4)
- A pretty hopeless rookie attempt from the outset- boring parse- reword! (10)
- Fashionable eponymous characters died for nothing, acquiring singular new names (10)
- ‘Skirt wearing’ - discharge for fellow setter! (6)
- Women only sign? (4)
- Ocean perch if horse’s drowning (8)
- A little drab motel coming up ‘Welcoming late arrivals’ (4)
- Aeneas’s lover claiming student’s special toy (5)
- After taking run, searched for water and nodded off (7)
- Satisfies sea otters occasionally (5)
- Credits amounts of time running inside (7)
- Party official agreed to cycle with girl to Arkansas (8)
- Aid denied Orcadian struggling in immature tree? (5)
- See 24d
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