Cryptic crossword No 4,005
Fri 9 Oct 2026, set byM40
Moderate
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Special Instructions: Anagram heavy satire
Across
- Apocryphal text uncovered what, sir? A challenge? (6)
- Crazy to sun at sea (5)
- Fire upset troubled stunner (9)
- Sect arses recast as performers (9)
- Rare teens confusedly communist? (9)
- Stain the perineum? (5)
- Staggering ancient cure for blasphemy? (8)
- Waltz out of Labyrinth using this: in three... an RAF do, aid dancing (6,2,7)
- The Odyssey reimagining you teach janitor? (7,2,6)
- Breaking the stars overexerts people who poo-poohed? (8)
- Threw shade, undermined Greece? (5)
- The EU coal washed up goddess (9)
- Disguises mythological first as Kraken's head misses ending (5)
- Singular silence repeats somewhat vaguely? (6)
Down
- No bias is a confused resurrection (9)
- Homer's epic laid bare sin assembly (5)
- Greek hero heads out through July to November (5)
- A punt misjudged? (5)
- Anoints recast peoples (7)
- Long without energy, suited for woolly stories (5)
- Maxims affect head, prisms hold up surprise (9)
- Lost in fighting status quo thanklessly forsooth! (6)
- We make secondary civilisation? (3)
- Greek enthusiast he's lentil mad (9)
- European to deter such migration (9)
- Continually good grades for goddess (6)
- O! Poetry, a place abroad (7)
- Swimming home into loveless Greek port (7)
- Greek's coats removed from king's family (3)
- Dreadlocked believer, a star recasting (5)
- Miterer carved vessel (7)
- Robes made of goat and English tailored (5)
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