Cryptic crossword No 4,033
Sat 17 Oct 2026, set bySerbosh
Moderate
7
Special Instructions: Big Dave’s Crossword Blog Rookie Corner 645
Across
- Cut back water level (4)
- Accompaniment is soft type from Leeds, perhaps? (9,7)
- Skirts of stage adaptation bemuse American actor (4,4)
- Sharp tools of discharged doctor removed from organs (6)
- See 22d
- Stop chasing snake in building material (7)
- One extremely overdue to quarantine (7)
- Have alcohol topless in place for 29a (4)
- Newspaper title has resonance (4)
- In retrospect, become suddenly furious about “good” qualifications (7)
- See 3a
- Follows team to drink fortified wines (8)
- Group of allied nations prevent head of Kazakhstan leaving (4)
- Seen in haste, a dynamic firm (6)
- Potentially spoons cutey: captivating line and embracing right (7)
- Key choice when playing sport (3,6)
Down
- Passion with woman on phone-call for flower (7,4)
- Nonsense starts from kids in bother outwitting staff habitually (6)
- Put on clothing like professor or mafia boss (3)
- Has element of brown sugar (4)
- Island orderlies (4)
- MP? (3)
- First person leading boy band harmoniously (2,4)
- Sticky romance fractured musical group (6,7)
- All left out of greetings in Trinidad & Tobago (3,3)
- Asked host if misbehaving can be fatal move (4,2,5)
- Said to thieve, showing determination (5)
- Prepare old material for new use regarding travel (7)
- Skinless fries with long cocktail and wine (8)
- President inspiring India with onset of historic victory (7)
- Controversial accusations letting slip second anonymous name of hearing (8)
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