Cryptic crossword No 4,058
Fri 23 Oct 2026, set byBaz
Moderate
5
Across
- Slippery customer involved in fake election (3)
- Chaps get older, and rise shakily, creating muddles (10)
- Principle and others receiving greeting (5)
- Comatose, therefore cure doubtful, try elsewhere (9)
- Current fallout was hastily contained (7)
- Pass tips of comb over locks (3)
- I favoured grant being returned (5)
- Show medic, pocketing spectacles, way to eliminate bugs (6,4)
- Harry was bound to be entertaining (7)
- Perplexed when BBC media outsold alternative (15)
- "Yesterday", for Nancy covering song, was more problematic (7)
- Enormous - I can't move round it! (7)
- Reason to limit drink? (9)
Down
- Enthusiastic about pub's profits too (4,3,7)
- Room after refurbishment with blue stripped, revealing gold decor (6)
- Jewish scholar has tribe confused (8)
- Construction set has hub attached to nuts overtightened initially (7)
- Steal a march, and understand article by speculator frequently lacking time (3,3,6,2)
- Arrangement of elements of occasional furniture? (8,5)
- Spies infiltrating act is chaotic, causing nerve trouble (8)
- Worker on the fiddle? (7)
- Pressed on during dire mix-up (6)
- Definitely not a reason to stop playing backgammon (2,4)
- Steer, say, straying heifers or herd (13)
- Panama, perhaps, behind the times (3,3)
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