Cryptic crossword No 3,920
Tue 15 Sep 2026, set byBenDR
4
Across
- Faux pas involving industrial relations beast (7)
- Investigators accept blunder, as they carry heavy loads (8)
- Limited life of luxury, which might feature a 5 down? (6,4)
- See 28ac
- Succeeding in game without each team having a turn to bat? (6)
- Young lady - one working with party wisdom - with second 1776 settlement that gave rise to 16 7 (7,7)
- Strangely, pub slower as 16 7 hosted this event in '85, '16 and '26 (9)
- Quiet bit said out loud (5)
- Criminal cons Africans in city with 18 across 17 Opera House where Treaty of 10 with 2 was signed ending American 13 (3,9)
- How art limits conflict (3)
- True love'd arranged to bring two initially? (6,4)
- Performed as "Weird Mr Yankovic", spinning dishes (8)
- Articulated vehicles on interstate can easily daunt beginners (6)
- Flogs lots of animals? (5)
- Elaborate on popular trick mostly swallowed (9)
- City beginning to trade weed without ruin (7)
Down
- See 16ac
- Tennis player is epic when returning (6)
- Preside over company's first musical (5)
- Dust off beam (4)
- Assessment of extremely tense police operation (7)
- Get a dongle organised as way to access 16 7 (6,4)
- Mostly prank an Asian country (5)
- A grander organisation put in order (8)
- Small piece of a cat (4)
- Feedback: right to have sheet pulled back (6)
- Waldo, part of blasphemers' onslaught? (7)
- Awful coup not CIA job?! (10)
- Plants included in biblical ark's pursuit? (9)
- More mail to be sorted - lest anyone forget! (8)
- Beast has memory, but it's very dense (7)
- Eternal needs strangely second when left involved (7)
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