Cryptic crossword No 3,996
Tue 6 Oct 2026, set byJervilian
Moderate
3
Across
- Sues vegan wistfully for wistfulness (9)
- Record label scratched and left (9)
- Wake up, bagged, by California luggage belt (8)
- Dos and ... firstly do one, nine, three (Spanish) (5)
- First ancient Greek written in a line before Bacchylides (6,1)
- They dictate a point on lower calories (5)
- King of the blues hits note in boring condescension (8)
- Searched 1000m² going west (5)
- Nit-pickers have erectile dysfunction in undies (7)
- Vincent soon concocted codes (11)
- Brunette model dropped into missing carnival? (3,4)
- Globe has it as company for environmental finance (7)
- Reality is, damage coming back around Toronto (5)
Down
- That is a day in Roman calendar time (2,3)
- Nasty sparkling wine and all. No finish (6)
- Iodine in exchange for screed (6)
- If not elsewhere, nowhere (4)
- Jingle surrounding cool dude singing Scooby Doo (8)
- Lookout featuring anvil minus Newtonian weight, with considerable weight (7)
- Bingo! Ice crush is made organically (8)
- Avenge bad one of 15a (6)
- Oh no, messy poos! (4)
- Rent raised on kerb (6)
- Wannabes plough into plates (10)
- (In a manner of speaking) knots catch, unable to be wound up (in a manner of speaking) (3,5)
- Dirty holes in pen (5)
- 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: Broadcaster Brown, with yearly countdown, put commercial in South American city (3,5)
- Gatherers place strollers around 5 o'clock (10)
- Proper leaders prepare roast (unsmoked) meal (7)
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