Cryptic crossword No 3,889
Mon 7 Sep 2026, set byFossil
Special Instructions: Wordplay contains numerically appropriate omissions.
Across
- Alkaline substance came into contact with something below ground (8)
- Take most of medicine with a little hesitation (6)
- Goodwood? (4)
- Permit drunk cops for example to get into the club (10)
- Flicks buff folder which has nothing in it by head of research (8)
- Article on the front of Sunday paper (6)
- Hold on to small house in East London? (6)
- Declining to take part in parade, end entertainment (10)
- Parasite found in chipmunk's skin (4)
- Brought back first gas services over nine days (6)
- Showed picture frame to Steve which has need for repair (8)
- Driver takes this strategic nap, according to Spooner (9,4)
- Carrier put copper back in wrong racks (8)
Down
- Put up shed (6)
- Put out red carpet regularly, we trust, for old buggers (4,9)
- Prepared antipasti, but not finished with ingredient used in dips (6)
- Unwrapped free present (4)
- Man left landing area (8)
- Those who make bloomers and who wash them without a... (10)
- ...break, initially repairing inseam and taking hem in (8)
- Source of income from Middle East with deferred payment terms supported by Egypt (4,6)
- Feature award of medal in play written by soldiers (5,3)
- Gesture with baton could be indication to Territorial Army? (6)
- Journalist getting lashed (4)
- Prestige in Switzerland and in France (6)
- Those establishing bearings of mountain pass running back over a peak (8)
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