Cryptic crossword No 4,002
Fri 9 Oct 2026, set bymetagloria
Moderate
8
Across
- Show history of American center falling apart (7)
- Absolute cinema's beginning soon (5)
- First bit of light drink enthralling peacekeepers (5)
- Brown's company eying value, restructuring with some number dismissed (3,6)
- Clever joke? Daughter's chock-full (7)
- At first, nobody ever explained how one was born (3)
- Prevent small Yankee plant covering earth? It's the least I can do (4,7)
- What fish you catch ultimately? (3)
- Ties up number in empty thoughts (7)
- Underwood eloquently pens set of verses (3)
- Dilapidated area used to be initially thriving, dynamic, full of style (9)
- Second year carrying books, one tightly embracing zany troupe (5,6)
- Lower part of jabberwock recoiling (3)
- Audio translator church included in firm guidance briefly (7)
- Iron, gold and aluminum protecting millions of thighs (7)
Down
- Loser we enrolled in development (4-2-4)
- Weight of crimes considered internally (4)
- Beneath back of ship, bums uncovered piece of chest (7)
- After opening of patisserie, Holly cooked flaky dough (6)
- A lot of wood chips taking away source of lumber (4)
- Makes use of high-fiber meals? (10)
- Illustrious Russian ruler demoting leader of Tomsk (4)
- Those loudly praising some swans? (10)
- Study solid water cycles in pristine conditions (6)
- Cancel Edna from moving around - she gets invigorated by Spanish rhythms (8,6)
- "Dutch cheese"? That's made up (4)
- Component of girl's makeup extremely sheer in, say, French city (10,4)
- In Paris, good time after morning relaxing (7)
- Damaged Gateway Arch? Ditch hotel and flee in this (7,3)
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