Cryptic crossword No 3,988
Mon 5 Oct 2026, set byVanilla
Tricky
2
Across
- Cleared out area by pigpen strong in smell (5)
- Where to eat meal in restaurant... or this meal picked up? (9)
- Get up in old tan clothes (5)
- Charming one with Spooner's sixpence (4)
- By a great deal, perhaps, ewe and ram present in hindsight! (4,7)
- May I start to rebuild cracked burial monument? (5)
- Taps built without one good absorbing apparatus originally powered with energy (7,2)
- Canine led organized trip in rows (4-5)
- Placing after the sixth-place winner out of bounds in contest (5)
- Fashionable ref essentially umpired professionally without fail (10)
- What's done to Lear's crown in play? (9)
- International assembly has pictures capturing a get-together with left out member of parliament (11)
- Stiff kitchen utensil cutting skin (3)
- Question papers for unit in London? (4)
- Finishes equal intense aid in transport (4,2,1,3)
- Half brash? The opposite! (3)
Down
- Arrest one charged assuming utter makeover (11)
- Half-heartedly gazing at one piece of litter of a bag possibly (3-2)
- Annual assembly's ending prematurely (6)
- Spooner's factory prohibition caused one to fight with Pole (7)
- Meets kind understudy covering up blisters (7)
- Regularly cuts upper lip on pipe in movement going against head (8)
- Backpacks? Better have this backing! (7,4)
- Old chemist's final cure half used, see extra (9)
- Puzzled queen with starts of college assessments lecturer takes; 1 + (0 x 2) + 1 (9)
- Class flying off in damn airspace (3)
- Treated with disrespect, follower stopped supporting lead journalist (8)
- Earl set up walls known by deliberate divulgence (7)
- Ring unionist in dense forest succumbing to onset of insects (6)
- Returning on second thoughts, I enter initally asking tavern for drink (3,2)
- Cross the river Styx to wash reportedly (3)
- Perhaps Burundian Franc is in circulation with American imports primarily (7)
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