Cryptic crossword No 4,060
Sat 24 Oct 2026, set byUmpire
Moderate
7
Special Instructions: Thirteen solutions are of a kind and are undefined. The rest of the clues are normal.
Across
- Cigarette student was offered first (5)
- Almost cement perfect score (6)
- Greeting extra performing for additional payment (8)
- Emigration from Germany drops following support at home (5,5)
- Last of traitors faithful uncovered (4)
- Supermarket aisles cleared out by old man (4)
- Observes island research institute splitting darmstadtium (8)
- Cull moss flourishing (8)
- Note gallons emptied from bottle (4)
- Roll Home Secretary provided (4)
- Oxidisation cracking tin walls (10)
- Thought about cider put out (8)
- Encloses a message, but not all of it (6)
- Bakery binning starts of gingerbread recipe (4)
- Declare setter's wife should leave bikini? (5)
- Age restricts final character in book (4)
- Film rugby contest with referee's face censored (4)
- International rights activist inspires (4)
Down
- Famous person outing British royalty on vacation (6)
- Heads of monkeys are talking away in tree (5)
- Problem with rats turning up one after the other? (7)
- Agony develops after trouble rises in Chinese city (8)
- Tulips she arranged (9)
- Possible result of polishing off parts of this puzzle? (8)
- Swimmer gets 50% off squash (7)
- One casually playing judge defaced gavel (6)
- Deck scoundrels patrolling river (5)
- Order wizard, perhaps, to wipe bottom (5)
- Essential part of glue stick (5)
- Electronic 90s console found in shop, a surprisingly worthless discovery (5-4)
- Cleaner regarding demonstration while going round (9)
- May an inspector answer people? (9)
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