Cryptic crossword No 3,916
Mon 14 Sep 2026, set bySalamander
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Across
- Liberally gild with grays evoking mythical ash (9)
- Birds' gullets full of calcium (6)
- Revolting musk stifling snoring nose (6)
- The city of Hollywood celebrated ripping out the heart of Emily Blunt (7)
- 8 identities concealing secret (6)
- Changes concerning Harry (8)
- Moseys along, has a flutter, loses a grand (6)
- Working around full-time equivalent usually (5)
- Wally in America (5)
- Crows line out of caverns, replaced by nightingales initially (6)
- Largely foolish adding AI to depleted datacentres' servers (8)
- Confiscates £1m (8)
- Mocking backtracking detectives over reprimand (7)
- Omits central characters in abstruse dilemma from the East (6)
- Fund is in decline (9)
- Parliament invariably prevails: it's a rigged game (3,5,6,4)
Down
- Miserable poem leads to despair (4)
- A lad and a jaguar wrestling in a Mexican city (11)
- Delighted to be run over by a steam train? (7,2,4)
- This kind of life is not worth living (10)
- Source of hints on Observer crossword can be obscure (5)
- Evoke boundless delight (6)
- Complain to this official as millions given to chums in Middle Eastern country (9)
- This network primarily has brilliant output (1,1,1)
- See 1a
- This device is an honour (1,1,1)
- Gloomy from the French atmosphere (5)
- See 7d
- Mistakenly rewinds dish counterclockwise (11)
- South American king bearing the belly of squat, energetic body (6)
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