Cryptic crossword No 4,043
Tue 20 Oct 2026, set byPrimus
Moderate
4
Special Instructions: 'Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains/And feeds her grief.'
Across
- Steer clear of quiet one in Quebec (4)
- Mike tore ligaments extremely badly over a mile (10)
- Insist upon Charlie having stripped covers of bed at sea (6)
- Woman with two mates in A film (8)
- Song disheartened happy man (4)
- Romeo's bottom put in harnesses unexpectedly producing rasping sound (10)
- Ultimately staff embargo new hotel in Turkey, perhaps (4)
- Dread forgetting what's behind Juliet's mistake (5)
- French banker comes from German river without delta or name (4)
- Render favourable support to Congress before I dined (10)
- Move rapidly back catching Henry's face (4)
- Underwater destroyers adore boat being advanced before fifth of November (8)
- Sheila's trail oddly disappearing through a gap (6)
- Childhood companion lap dancing scared to take lead in foxtrot (10)
- Yankee denies keeping garden (4)
Down
- Why is king entering very old city with cocktail? (6,4)
- Assume mortgage excluding Oscar is flipping diabolical (8)
- Extremely patchy short nap in ship? On the contrary (10)
- Redoubtable bravo concealing blister (4)
- Supporting Spurs initially, sucker is complacent (4)
- It's a flowery part of street so let it be (6)
- Zulu's third to confront being in contact (4)
- American essentially victorious hitting stern of India's vessel (5)
- One who hunts head of Sierra tribe with constant cry (10)
- Purified front of uniform at Lib Dem's spreads (10)
- Letters help beyond sacred river (8)
- X-ray a papilloma? In retrospect it bears fruit (6)
- Limitless golf within borders of Haringey is regarded with awe (4)
- Was under obligation to marry by finish of tango (4)
- Ponder a couple of lines at end of Letter to the Corinthians (4)
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