Cryptic crossword No 3,992
Tue 6 Oct 2026, set byDrumcraft
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Special Instructions: My Puzzle #50
Across
- Overwhelms small has-been, confined politician (6)
- Journalist turns to kiss unknown scorer (7)
- He-man ate nuts outside university reading room (9)
- Makes dull points about Minehead (5)
- Nut is able to work out earlier (5)
- Submission of niece bode ill (9)
- Fail to meet requirements of standard conditions (7)
- Some returning illicit pests are poisonous! (6)
- Remain outside rogue’s gallery (6)
- Introduced prankster to large heartless Edward (7)
- In this way city has money for bread (9)
- In France free love is basically rather extreme initially (5)
- Source of tequila found in Silver Street (5)
- Go over again with liar (9)
- Ranges of new carpets (7)
- One has look around hospital for bin (6)
Down
- Second program taken in by you and I had to be exchanged (7)
- Fuss about hot chocolate starter was unplanned (2,3)
- Uncle, starting in Naples, travels to Florida, maybe (9)
- Moderates crazy upset writers (7)
- Spot one tie first (5)
- Meanings of small English male’s shenanigans (9)
- Sycophants are at the back of every single mess from executive clown (3,3)
- Reply about a wrongful act (6)
- Come up with a mixture of meat and flour (9)
- Settles and throws out apples (9)
- Cut back, trapping union representing British Indian leaders in the outskirts (7)
- Penelope waited here for sex with husband one cold midday (6)
- Hide family after drug taken in parties (7)
- Examines one boat, for example, inside (6)
- Lived with scar on back of hand (5)
- Drinkers’ white bread lies alongside native crab starters (5)
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