Cryptic crossword No 3,891
Tue 8 Sep 2026, set byGennaro
Special Instructions: 18a is a major theme of a surrounding work
Across
- Take it easy with sudden move involving love (6)
- A bit of water in drain cycling, runs over patio initially (8)
- Permits senile, inane comic in performance (8)
- Independent leader for one, backing current board regularly (6)
- Full of initiative, begin quietly leading revolt (12)
- Checked out animal surgeon saving heart of the dog basically (6)
- Government with greeting for Indian leader (6)
- Sleight of hand moving mountain --- a lesson in pseudoscience primarily (12)
- Concert venues, say, are occasionally near the fringe of suburbia (6)
- Reacting to pollen, possibly, lilac garden at intervals redesigned (8)
- Popular show with four episodes fundamentally having no effect (8)
- Person being examined in collegiate steeplechase (6)
Down
- China article announced support over prize (6)
- Heather following more extreme, outspoken mercenary (8)
- Border, for example, around Geneva, after the start of darkness (6)
- Adjusted engineering routine without university education (8)
- Unrefined nation led by king, tyrant ultimately in charge (6)
- Sample from Bonobo entranced music producer (4)
- Formulate first half of thesis with focus of explosive growth in recording (8)
- Appalling case of savagery and unexpected movement concerning the Ottomans perhaps (8)
- Crashing tsunami resulting at first in community nudity (8)
- Upper-class paid a ton, boosted by energy to modernize (6)
- European city champ probed by Italy (6)
- Lots of love and sex appeal accompanying a seductive young woman (6)
- Health food from Belgium went swiftly (4)
- Natural, at this point, inhabiting pub with pint at closing (8)
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