Daily Mail Cryptic #17605

2025-04-25

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1a

Cuts strokes used in texts (7)

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5a

Talk together about fine European in credit (6)

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9a

Post Office supplied with a food from Italy (7)

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10a

Bodily examination claimed to be defective (7)

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11a

Hard work after time is spent getting commodity (3)

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12a

Proper pocket? (11)

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13a

Confess start of woes with Greek character in work (3,2)

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14a

Kitchen utensils to reposition U.S. canapes (9)

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16a

Reserve in Crete altered by outsiders in charge (9)

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17a

Speedy bird with slender wings (5)

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19a

Unusually daft set, say, holding line in a loyal way (11)

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22a

Problem leaving first old horse (3)

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23a

Manufacture of a biro in African capital (7)

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24a

Quiet period found by colonist in procession (7)

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26a

Apply pressure to sides in league shortly (4,2)

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27a

Supermarket employee moving crates round back of truck (7)

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Down

1d

Fool found on poor ground in Japanese city (7)

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2d

How one might describe many drying clothes in every detail? (3,5,3,4)

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3d

Farmyard animal occupying the nursery (3)

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4d

Rascal from southern group living in tents? (5)

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5d

Penny entering Italian lake certainly showing calmness (9)

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6d

Lowest point in defective drain (5)

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7d

A sign to follow emphasis? (11,4)

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8d

Gripping tools left in parts of seaside resorts (6)

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12d

A second film showing savoury jelly (5)

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14d

Maybe, touching thrill (9)

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15d

Student's work adapted, yes, around Swansea's outskirts (5)

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16d

Feel bitterness towards note transmitted (6)

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18d

More compact and less generous? (7)

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20d

New expression from the south for flood (5)

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21d

Some pretty pessimistic sorts (5)

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25d

Travel over a part of India (3)

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