Quick crossword No 397
Fri 12 Jun 2026, set byQuercus
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Across
- Boneless hipster chewing peyote: what a cliché! (10)
- ‘Dance Your PhD’, but about your shorter management course (5)
- Containing letters hid long set having entertaining property (7)
- 2 in 1? (Not half!) (4)
- Putrid in Belgium and ill in South Africa, but her wedding WILL BE PERFECT! (10)
- To follow SPECTRE, M’s man in the middle (6,6)
- As three of you report, court of Provençal town rejected Chinese accounting (5)
- It’s not like Timothy to conserve energy at the wrong moment! (8)
- ‘Turning off the tied’? That’s something to
altaralter (4) - See 13a
- The German looped the loop—through the inside of a building! The other pilot cursed him. (3,5)
- ‘Nuts’ – insane – am I?! Wavelength problem? (7)
Down
- Sage of antiquity: ‘Nothing new under the sun’ (5)
- Finally buys a car: “Between six and five hundred? Payment not in cash?” (4,4)
- Lively yet sporadic memory of a performance (5)
- ‘Though the title suggests a sequel, the producers have disinterred what already went down in flames and set it in a different era.’ (7)
- Inhabitants of a bustling royal domain call it Spain (8)
- This twisted device will make you name the tiny general’s group! (10)
- [Variant spelling] Aztec or not a conquistador (6)
- “Lots of clues but no grid in the book! Who set this?” (7)
- Are we thus: sin sects? Yes. (4)
- @ initially confused by U of Roguelike (4)
- “Greetings, Ivor, to begin with! Between the same two points, back and forth, Ivor?” (6)
- Lopsided penetration of the stomach, swallowing broadcaster’s trophy (“Bottoms up!”), removed top of gut (10)
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