Cryptic crossword No 3,981
Sat 3 Oct 2026, set byBaz
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Across
- Correctly see outline first (9)
- Trod the boards, having excelled touring theatre at first (5)
- Sore about source of support I've withdrawn (9)
- Move little bird after I'm gone (5)
- Resilient, fifth-rate to begin with, finally in charge (7)
- Wished despair could be treated (7)
- Fiasco when taxi reversed by learner into river (7)
- Sound, fashionable taste for French food alfresco . . . (6,3)
- Transport initially provided for vagrant (5)
- Scrutineer FT essay's content rejected for release (3,4)
- Reference work, like a writer accepting it (9)
- Get together a service (5)
- Stones fan mistakenly googles it (9)
- Suspicious? - drag a lake (5)
- . . . as a result of couple getting old (3,2)
- One armoured fleet briefly indisposed, obtaining source of ordnance (9)
Down
- Roll with little Parisian secretary at home (5,4)
- Sad descent of aristocrat (4,5)
- Dire mishap after Charlie called (5)
- Go off - yes, after last month (5)
- Unsophisticated, Neil awkward, for instance, with social worker (9)
- Within train track, essentially (5)
- First Lady takes break at summit (7)
- Exactly where spectacles are (2,3,4)
- Send clock back? (5)
- Port for good man I left with Queen (9)
- Trollope novel, perhaps, ranges round society (3,4)
- Receiver gets nothing after bungled raid (5)
- Torrid time for setters? (3,4)
- Beat short-haul to South East (5)
- Reckless deeds from mistaken inclusion in strange upset (7-2)
- I comply with training to reach sporting peak (7)
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