Cryptic crossword No 4,076
Tue 27 Oct 2026, set byJervilian
Tricky
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Across
- Salary cap overturned inside this global office (6)
- 6d city gentile stuck between support group and initial appointment (6)
- 6d for example, or starting another scrap in Amagasaki nightclub (5)
- America's propositions about junk (9)
- 6d speaking English (swapping l for r) have this sixth tone, long rise dropped in (9)
- Island of concrete putting away prisoner (5)
- Get rid of peacekeepers (50-0) in modern times (6)
- "OK, you jesting bum..." Perhaps 16d might say this (3,4,2,6)
- This instant is timeless (2,2,4)
- Highest note hitters are actors speaking with both balls and end of Johnson cut off (8)
- Oh no! When touring, Scottish singer comes to archipelago capital (8)
- Figure of speech 'yours truly' in expression (6)
- French city producing French game and French perfume (not Spanish) is not Columbia (8)
- Jesus, more Spanish: Dalí returns, drawing in poles for an Australian outlier (9,6)
Down
- Operating system also known as 6d culture hub (5)
- Jewish food (firstly mitzvah appetisers, then zeroah) ordered before dance (5,4)
- Beatle's (?) final lyrics mimic Middle Easterner (6)
- Bluish Brit missing in action, lost in Canada (7,8)
- East Asian? German? Yes, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Sweden (8)
- Trapped in butt (up a kazoo), left for dead (5)
- Comments turned off and I won't be saying any more (2,7)
- A pool surrounds fifty in tree keeling over... Joke! (5,4)
- Shortest chocolatey drink is French (8)
- Canadian academic or 6d engine maker (6)
- Small antelope or an inferior one (5)
- Lowland town gets Granny back (5)
- Part of the dark side surrounding Tuesday Island (liberated from sovereign) is microscopic and helps trees to grow upwards (9)
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