Cryptic crossword No 3,971
Tue 29 Sep 2026, set byJervilian
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Across
- Nice man, first in local election, is not the chosen one (7)
- Cardinal Bladder flipped for God (6)
- Back up! Reverse! (crash) (7)
- Weaves back with a frown to end (5,3)
- Control rules! (6)
- Leaders of Beijing in Lorca... Chinese food is in Spain (6)
- City in the country (10)
- Heavenly section, both major and minor: river in America (4)
- Note little Ronald going down and turning green (11)
- Not quite nearly everyone, the majority (6)
- Get ready, the Italian zombie attacked! (8)
- Stun beginning to end in Germany (4)
- Distant edge, starting to take artistic licence left to right (or right to left) (10)
Down
- Removes tube in muscles (7)
- Soother said hello (4)
- Rambo decapitated in Borneo grass (6)
- Written in amber: Gerace is a town in south-west France? (8)
- Emperor Naruhito takes first place of nobody for Roman emperor (4)
- Old final characters found in storms without first boy's love (7)
- Sounds like strange department store (6)
- Lech said "It's Lee's" (6)
- Damn! Damn! It's a hard cover (8)
- Victim of French Revolution eviscerated by loop pulled by strings (10)
- Confused, Aldous line misquoted (10)
- God in lavish number (6)
- Also... Extra! Extra! (11)
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