Cryptic crossword No 4,045
Tue 20 Oct 2026, set byBenDR
Moderate
4
Across
- See 28dn
- See 18dn
- Price of foul play - net shaken? (7)
- Capital's wicked curse (5)
- After court yard's end... large and small 31 across plants may grow there (9)
- Region obtain 'A' economically, some turnaround! (7)
- Scratching the surface, is Teal the sneaky approach? (7)
- AI unit allowed in X (5)
- See 32dn
- Keeps in mind chaos of endless 31 across memes (9)
- Excitement in shoes (5)
- Times when Mrs Lynn lost head (3)
- Reliable at losing head, showing age (5)
- see 2 down or 28 down
- Union improve on one article concerning ideal society (7)
- Venue where young Simpson had his backside kicked (3)
- King 2-er welcomed, bearing 45... he was a numbers man! (9)
Down
- Placated with concession... imitated canned vegetables (8)
- Firm excitedly banks haul with end of regime (10)
- Ukrainian perhaps with backward values E.U. rejected? (4)
- Eagerly promotes overcoming negative votes in states open to suggestion (8)
- The night before one's first lady? (3)
- Auditory stimulus turning 101 with ADD (5)
- Might and French beauty bearing 45, hit record for 18 31 across (10)
- He created 2 21 across 32 15 in response to eating belladonna fruit perhaps? (5,5)
- Revolving door covering is in debt to dark timber (8)
- State of watercraft's as article included (8)
- Bosses cycle back to show extreme dedication (6)
- What Italian freedom fighter? (3)
- Defender mostly holds it; front man often plays it (6)
- 20th century style beginning to revere dollar & conk out (4,3 4) (4,7)
- Flipped an oily, naked beast (4)
- Give power to the Spanish curse, raised up (6)
- Occasionally archly itchy, fellow drowning in debts origins of "bad luck" genre (6,3 5) (6,8)
- See 32d
- Reproduced sound of 70s group (4)
- He bet on "Lover, Lover" arrangement as hit record for 18 31 across (4,4 9)
BenDR has provided annotated solutions for this crossword.
925 - Belladonna's Up! - also available at https://ibendr.github.io/xwd/bendr/index.html along with over 500 more
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