Cryptic crossword No 3,970
Tue 29 Sep 2026, set byDrumcraft
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Special Instructions: My Puzzle #49
Across
- Supporter needs energy to get to northern hill (4)
- Prepare anaesthetic for three, maybe (5,6)
- Service gets one back from a long way away (4)
- New coats for Ladies' Day here? (5)
- Four people have a couple of pints with visitor (7)
- Charles the Fourth struggles into mufti (7)
- Someone taken on for for quiet support after one celebration (7)
- Unprepared for piece of bad libel! (2,3)
- Come back to find European copper in rivers (5)
- Turn back into trees in city... (7)
- ...Rennes contains a terrible trap! (7)
- Now follows old article on best comeback of South Pacific (7)
- I damage station’s logo (5)
- Part-timers come back carrying one French family member (4)
- Unfortunate clash with tribe about opening of pits in homelands (11)
- Price of endless stock reorganisation (4)
- I scare Mam in new train station, maybe (11)
- Oh, not six-ply, sadly, for the man with the hammers (11)
Down
- Turn wagon into compound (4)
- Princess’s Australian mother? (4)
- Made red female dean to return (7)
- Man of the world takes break in fancy trailer (11)
- A queen’s car runs around Dover initially to find country entertainment (6,5)
- Raged when miners’ leader’s kept outside (7)
- Figure in band can’t go travelling! (7)
- Key one left inside drum (5)
- Poem from overseas (5)
- One’s shot inside taking back Greek character’s metal (7)
- Now returns with subject in the wrong place (7)
- Some veggie ate radish in diner (5)
- Most important person captures island (4)
- Brings great ass regularly (4)
- Traditional distribution of income is endless (5)
- Go into second leg, Honey (7)
- Bring into the country once new part of roadside warning system (7,4)
- Senses wall being destroyed by son is criminality (11)
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