Cryptic crossword No 3,898
Wed 9 Sep 2026, set byJervilian
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Across
- Essentially lurid cutlery mangler. (3)
- Family cooked meat sauces for source of energy. (5,5)
- Instrument for European nation with the Spanish and Italian and the French. (7)
- Damaged dingy is changing colour. (5)
- Endless number's endless moustache next to Jupiter's moon nut. (9)
- Provisional trainee cut short by heads of internal management. (7)
- Keeps water off this type of apple. (9)
- Problem loses heart then Mr Dennis gets excited. (7)
- Rot back or rock peak? (3)
- One sailer confused Middle Easterner. (7)
- Entangled entangler tilled a Brexiteer. (6,9)
- 19 across would probably eat this holy (?) food. (5)
- Wild atonic slur is about the most I can hear. (10)
Down
- In sudoku, waiting leads to Middle Eastern place. (6)
- Inferred she was in a kind of community. (8)
- Diana's putting out without past lover: just putting it out there. (14)
- 10-1-100: odds of upload clamps. (8)
- Throttled a Corbie? It's a real workout! (7)
- Four beats on the double on the double. (9,4)
- Ad sketch is for the masses. (10,3)
- Money maker? Who cares! (3,4)
- Rowing crew has variable number. (6)
- It's for the gods to predict. (6)
- Pencils in the bin. (6)
- Grasps for short commercial before foul (?) charged particles. (14)
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