Cryptic crossword No 4,071
Mon 26 Oct 2026, set bytpgrammar
Special Instructions: To support your solve, this puzzle includes a classic film's ☑ title, ☑ writer, ☑ director, ☑ lead actors, and ☑ source material, along with ☑ a memorable line of dialogue.
Across
- Representatives such as Rocky ok with filth, see? (3,5,2)
- Boo-boo? Yep, on vacation slicing tomato when exhausted (4)
- In distress, tiny tailless choir of birds (8)
- Endless gratitude to friend essentially providing nose rag (6)
- Financial market regularly tense: yen backsliding (4)
- Eel, following boy’s lead, advanced near grandma with papa chasing yellowjacket? (6,4)
- Nullify rule in facility (5)
- Chase away salesman, rejecting terms of legal loophole (5)
- Oddball enters wearing departed's Māori jewelry? (10)
- Nag Miss Lee interminably (6)
- Unwrapped ACME's variety of beans (4)
- Tolerable Roman mainly coming back for sweet sherries (8)
- Extraordinary life detour defines ballplayer (10)
- Risk undressing? Nice at first; in the end it ain't (4)
Down
- Live a little eccentrically facing loud critique as one held to the fire, say (4,6)
- His Holiness, Pele, beginning to organize team into position (4,3,3)
- Not entirely true? Full-stop: Sorry. (6)
- Idolize heartless rebel (4)
- Some Libs freed criminals (2-4)
- Dewy web periodically gathered frost, wood and … food? (3-5)
- Cry out to Celia, gutted, if ever struggling (10)
- Get topless and groove (4)
- Symbolically, I eat with cow (6)
- Pick up missing debut from German director (4)
- Frog recalled boxing hideous giant (4)
- She’ll relieve you in the dark and barely clutch beneath the head (5,5)
- Still Life, primarily capturing a mop with no changes, sent up in parodies (8)
- Howard gets cast initially to play husband’s part for larger-than-life playwright (6)
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