Cryptic crossword No 3,953
Thu 24 Sep 2026, set bySerbosh
Special Instructions: This puzzle was featured on Big Dave’s Crossword Blog Rookie Corner 642. Reposted here with kind permission after editing.
I strongly recommend Rookie Corner for any beginner that would like more feedback. There is usually ~7 solves with comments and later, a breakdown of each individual clue including guidance on any technical slips.
Some answers in this puzzle are linked.
Across
- Flipping adulterer I’m dating concealing potential love interest (7)
- Deserves good qualities (6)
- Stared desperately across Jupiter’s moon for comms device (5,3)
- Synopsis: King houses bird (6)
- Jack to suffer part of academic year in detention (4,4)
- Reusing coal differently to move with ease (6,5)
- Damaged around eye it’s said, in a state following ceremony (7)
- Tiny boat is mollusc’s place of suffering? (11)
- Worthlessness of American furniture (6)
- A performance enhancer gives out-of-this-world body (8)
- He brings fog? (6)
- Drain energy from wild teen rave (8)
Down
- Explosion of napalm with roar - supernatural! (10)
- Spoiler has resident changing volume to quiet (8)
- Artist leading couples from Münster’s sister city Angers (8)
- Engineers’ singular prompt: note 60s R&B track (8)
- Lofty heights? (6)
- Complain audibly over starter of liver on first menu (4,4)
- Audio equipment revealed by heartless cad and womaniser (2,6)
- Concerning bedding gets better (8)
- Still found on tv, receiving poor reception (6)
- Reflexive, mum swallows drug with Tango (4)
- Nuisance priest ignoring first letters from Romans indignantly (4)
- Part of process to raise hamsters maybe (4)
- Extract from Testaments is not exciting (4)
- Baked dessert improved patio price (7,3)
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