Cryptic crossword No 4,040
Mon 19 Oct 2026, set byWolfgang
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Across
- Celebration after 16 in Shakespeare loses partner (4)
- Entire term up: time for this (10)
- Nannies beheaded? Crazy! Crazy! (6)
- Couple appeal and dash (4)
- Stately home behaviour, reportedly (5)
- Badger a scourge at US hospital department (6)
- Nervous, entering renowned gym (4)
- Salesman with something for your roof is a cold-blooded sort (7)
- Fortress that pulls? (5)
- Lawns End mix-up at cricket ground (8)
- Wind on return from lido (4)
- Oh wow! Dorm in a mess, with this infesting it (8)
- Perhaps a skill I see at short leg (7)
- Disarray with 50, 500 swapped in for a number, resulting in a reaction (10)
- Get stuck in cabin (5)
Down
- 20, for example, went into school bounds: Wolfgang must give chase (5,5)
- One in, one out of French President's unit (6)
- Car manufacturer's residence (4)
- Perhaps keeper takes note of weather: "worse" (8)
- Westminster man's first to cross the Channel (4)
- Pass on woman (5)
- Foul: score reportedly halved (3,4)
- Strength is returning, fresh (5)
- Quiet! Rule about to be drilled into Frenchman on river (2,8)
- Use of hotel required for idiot (3,4)
- Knocked two drinks back with journalist and grumbled (8)
- Fancy but partly torn at edges (6)
- Scallywag to suspend Parliament, rejecting expert (5)
- Work twice for a bird (4)
- Author raced for the country (4)
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