Cryptic crossword No 3,876
Fri 4 Sep 2026, set byGumboot
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Across
- Reptiles bite cold leaves (eaters discontented) (6)
- Put bullets in empty gun, smoked joint (6)
- Support spine (4)
- Daisy or Mimi maybe? Right call (6,4)
- Fast, small groups of battleships (6)
- Hard gust swirling causes incoming air currents (8)
- Sloppy heart: add time into complex surgical procedure (9)
- Sounds like pro quartet (4)
- Richard III seeing kids at first as a hazard (4)
- Sip celery blended exactly (9)
- Hungry stoic leads mob in disorderly struggle (8)
- Holder with no middle, old boy put in cipher (6)
- Plants ring for a prank in field (4,6)
- Gloomy Lady Jane (4)
- Four directions around Germany then new destination in journey through Europe... (6)
- ...and another after that in a second (6)
Down
- 'English only speakers' rubbish loons got from malignant leader (9)
- Visit concession outside for shellfish (7)
- Narrow part of leg won't start to chafe (5)
- Join 'Only...' a game (7)
- Nastily ruin Tom, granddad to Romulus and Remus (7)
- What to do forever after the wedding, perhaps - maintain one's tranquility? (4,4,5)
- Ludo's top at 1a steps (7)
- Logs on to get casual trousers (7)
- Frustration at core with a people's unkempt exotic tree (4,5)
- Virtual assistants cross, at no time getting in beers (6)
- Set forth to play with poets XI (7)
- Force every other cowbell to jingle evenly (6)
- Boggle half-heartedly to see spectre (5)
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