Cryptic crossword No 4,096
Sat 31 Oct 2026, set byBaz
Unrated
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Across
- Anarchic sect set a precedent (4,4)
- Stronghold, powerless to retain advantage, with monarch getting course that's fishy! (8)
- Poem features my composition with hers (6)
- Old dear ready to provide food (3,5)
- Twice as much would be possible if one replaced you, reportedly (6)
- Checking age when wooing twins, perhaps (6,6)
- Hint comes largely unnoticed, especially to begin with (4)
- Part of play unfinished, or AI roughly gives outline (8)
- Canine extraction if I don't brush? (4)
- Housekeepers incline to be snaring husband, girls! (12)
- Base of aluminium fronting Hindu goddess (6)
- Sample of semen I transported with PC (8)
- Reform Tice sore, becoming obscure (8)
- Significant when heads of Foreign Office go to public school? Quite the reverse! (2,4)
Down
- Vault caught rail before games (5)
- Warmer where witches meet topless (4)
- Cinema genre CBS and I review (3,6)
- Boobs in Will's comedy? (6)
- Boogieing, hum disco tunes of show (3,5,2,5)
- Small weapon can be threatening (8)
- Approaching posterior leads to serious charges (10)
- Stellar attractions need entry of he-man in trunks! (5,5)
- Whistle-blower remains, one working for change (9)
- More gluttonous, would be slimmer if George left (8)
- Orator elevated alternative part of city, I see? (6)
- Liberal, abandoned, quit port (4)
- Emmet following Baz is intended (5)
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