Cryptic crossword No 3,946
Tue 22 Sep 2026, set byBenDR
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Across
- Forward a record about national leader (5)
- Boast new fancy headwear (5)
- Runs off with eastern medicine man (5)
- Force in China? (3)
- See 28ac
- Track on waterway's periphery accommodating tugging horses primarily? (7)
- Belt at heart of fears (3)
- Dirty article presented by relative (7)
- Typical ironic lass I cast in part (7)
- Permitted actions in system for data access (3)
- Mob's rough play involving a lot of violence (5)
- Leak fake extract about author who wanted his unfinished work destroyed (5)
- Competitor in 30 31 perhaps beginning to talk with Harold about eye pierced (5,7)
- Wrote about fish rendering process (9)
- Always losing first couple in hustle, wagers uptakes being close to 4 across 21 and last part of 7 1 across 11 (2,5,6)
- See 30ac
- Set of 28 collecting rent let loose (6)
- 126720 in wet Milo disaster (3,4)
- Unscripted pre-meet arrangement involving a hug and a kiss (9)
Down
- Sweet but thick, Tracy takes ecstasy AND a bit of LSD (7)
- Start of main trouble? (5)
- Spin hit single, his first (7)
- Ghost, last to possess 16 perhaps (4)
- Chinese instrument shown off by 7? 7?! (5)
- Fix wasteland (4)
- Loud piece of music in movie (5)
- Quote Wade's opponent in 1973 with both sides of the coin, not being concerned with the practical (9)
- What I do at lectern, or what I did at table? (5)
- Ironic lads I cast out as they proved hard to penetrate (9)
- Casually canters away, leaving leaders of family that came before (9)
- Party casually canters home for 30 31 (9)
- Made from ground ash, wicket is most bizarre (9)
- Reports sadly past due (7)
- King replacing knight changes attacks (7)
- Fish is large and strangely lonesome (5,4)
BenDR has provided annotated solutions for this crossword.
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