Cryptic crossword No 3,978
Sat 3 Oct 2026, set byPodger
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Across
- American concoction of pecan and pear is coming! (10)
- Pressure’s on university students to find a sexual partner (4)
- Architectural style achieved by this old Roman (6)
- Fudge came with rice pudding (3,5)
- Essentially Wet Leg reworked hit for singing group (4,4)
- German joiner tucks into very Scottish dessert (6)
- A new country with no capital accepted city on the Mediterranean (7)
- Alcohol ruined Lohan after movie success (7)
- A portion of creme caramel knocked back in hurry (4)
- Need to separate bishop from flock – he's a disgrace (5,5)
- Smitten perhaps with good English dessert? (5,3)
- Club in Greece occasionally gives discount (6)
- Stay in character for dessert (6)
- Mark's repelled by jam dessert (4,4)
Down
- Dessert in mug (4)
- Removing skin from loganberry, lychees and ackee, to be mixed for dessert (10)
- Dessert with boyband entertains Fuhrer from time to time (8)
- Break up party after record is nicked (7)
- Person with contract that’s not as much as one of the UK’s biggest internet providers (6)
- Great city welcomes Royal architect (4)
- Zola being forced to eat a dessert (10)
- Cantona jogged in training prior to a dessert (5,5)
- Dessert made from a kind of green tea with honey and a nip of brandy in it (5,5)
- What an actor might do to contribute (4,4)
- Broadcast Asians’ funk (7)
- Spread a little bit of bonhomie, say (6)
- Cake with a touch of glucose as sweetener (4)
- Ten volunteers make trifle (4)
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