Cryptic crossword No 4,122
Fri 6 Nov 2026, set byPodger
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Special Instructions: Marking an event coming up on Monday 9th
Across
- School is firm with absent children (5)
- Writer struck by Armistead Maupin's debut about city (9)
- Fake Teletubby stuffed with used pants (6)
- Bad bank and where it might operate (8)
- Colleague from a special spy agency intercepting notes (9)
- Setter joins extremely dirty students to see Nirvana (5)
- He does a daily run of 1000 metres in Italian city (7)
- Puritanical Scots go around regularly getting arrested (7)
- Spy service's No.1 and new No.2 turned (5)
- Difficulties Treasury’s numero uno linked to foreign money (8)
- A day is taken in Scottish bank to find file (6)
- Caught in bomb, a thousand journalists are blown away (9)
- Turn tables at last on management (5)
- Profession - a teacher in Dublin, for example? (9)
Down
- Banker ultimately receives spell in custody (10)
- Wet? About 26 taking refuge inside tree (5,3)
- Newspaper writing about harbour and what ships bring in (7)
- Hardened elite troops defending attack from the rear (5)
- Lady's slipper, for instance, made from trimmed whale skin (6)
- Musical chairs, naked! (4)
- Leave house drunk daily (7)
- Left with assorted different drinks right when the pub's about to close (4,6)
- Gold nugget with a line going round (7)
- Scandal created by press finally probing Princesses involved in fatal car crashes (8)
- Poem about conclusion of journey by ship, end of story! (7)
- Union overexcited by closure of candleworks (6)
- Fat novel changing hands (5)
- Neither the first not the last occasion to have fun! (4)
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