Cryptic crossword No 4,042
Tue 20 Oct 2026, set byDrumcraft
Moderate
4
Special Instructions: My Puzzle #52
Across
- I am taking new deep hamper (6)
- People walk by river around centre of Hull (8)
- After indiscretion Spooner is told to leave TV entertainment (8)
- Girl gains points and passes (4,2)
- Ordering one riot to explode when insurrection fails to start outside (12)
- Artistic movement of baby’s father? (4)
- Starving half of clan I got rid of (8)
- Spar with weapons and trip badly! (8)
- Is indebted to you and I after band begins singing (4)
- Peer gets cold, working for a short period (12)
- Plato shivered outside king’s door (6)
- Boy distributes oilcans around hospital (8)
- Easy trip is organised with bitterness! (8)
- Accepting monarch’s thanks earlier (6)
Down
- Drink with inebriated dame (4)
- Models turn out ample sex around middle of party (9)
- Part of one choice is repeated (6)
- Legal responsibility for a pony and otter we ordered (5,2,8)
- You begin leaving Happy Hour occasionally (4,4)
- Student aims to get offers (5)
- Need to get out when second killer is around initially for always (5,5)
- Smelly tailless dormouse runs round one large ring (10)
- Small Conservative gets to reserve collection of tales (9)
- Royal family found in gloomy store (8)
- Loud never-ending disorganised attack on rich man (3,3)
- Tax ten idle top high earning leaders (5)
- Conceited one is in front (4)
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