Cryptic crossword No 4,053
Thu 22 Oct 2026, set byDave
Moderate
5
Special Instructions: I've not been here for a while. It's good to be back!
Across
- Countryside's boundary central to the argument consuming Bono's associate (8)
- Controls reported to Europeans (6)
- If not dark, opening late (6)
- Nice friend getting cold earlier, only in negligée (8)
- Unused sample from mega-band, One Direction (9)
- Withdrawing goal a referee's defending - that's brutal (5)
- Energy company says team lacking answers to environmental concern (9)
- Stole whizz from gangster (8)
- Annual race regularly gets highway evacuated - chaos! (7)
- Familiar day's objective (6)
- Ultimately, L.A. Story right to be left without Oscar (6)
- Have a go cycling on lake - big mistake! (3,4)
- Just about manage to overtake (3,2)
- Good woman is one out of 5 (6)
- Song penned by MC Hammer inexplicably starts with Mexican music (8)
- Medium's swindle cracked by Shaft (6)
Down
- One about to get period (3)
- Perhaps Jade Goody's face concerning English nationalist (5)
- Polish ruse stirs Trump, for one (10)
- Unpleasant candle, perhaps? (6)
- Butterfly spending one month in deep sleep (4)
- Reggae set remixed with bonus material (6,3)
- Vigorous walk for 80s/90s comedy duo (4,3,4)
- One who refuses to show the way!? (11)
- US-grown Brazil nuts wanting intense zing, lifted firstly with sweetener (5,5)
- Fruit bat with wings clipped in RSPB error oddly happy in the end (9)
- Laugh and cry (6)
- God that can be observed after funeral (5)
- Seafood recipe's missing piece (4)
- Declaration of Homer primarily (3)
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