Daily Mail Cryptic #17625

2025-05-23

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Across

1a

That man bothering clerk is one disrupting speech (7)

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5a

Party in hotel surrounded by rubbish (6)

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9a

Nicholas and Ernie, maybe, producing coins (7)

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10a

Wit deployed by William shortly to get mattock (7)

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11a

Piece is pungent (not half) (3)

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12a

Small worm, ah, winding round pink-flowered plant (11)

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13a

By the sound of it, dress up trade association (5)

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14a

Procurer's sorted out one previously in post? (9)

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16a

Fail to record variation in sole matter (4,5)

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17a

Cyclists need these good things for listening (5)

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19a

Doctor used dangers to show cautious quality (11)

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22a

Blue tit on and off in exotic garland (3)

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23a

A priest is upset about English vigilante (7)

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24a

Bothersome group concealing harm in turn (7)

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26a

A bore's recalled home of the Norse gods (6)

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27a

Small bunch of flowers, say, gone to rot (7)

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Down

1d

Labourer has secure item to hold small articles (7)

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2d

They enhance mixing for bartenders? (8,7)

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3d

Piece of dishonesty in policy nationalist put out (3)

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4d

One getting out of bed in section of a staircase (5)

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5d

Alien Greek character beset by trial is most irritable (9)

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6d

Educated woman grabbing a minty side dish (5)

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7d

Yen shown by quiet colleague in bob - or indecision? (6,9)

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8d

Second cow is more sluggish (6)

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12d

First person with director in charge is doctor (5)

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14d

Raided place controlled by extremists in England (9)

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15d

Impulses demonstrated in our gesticulation (5)

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16d

Record Jack in the morning in tangled situation (6)

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18d

Briefly visit faction in southern Belgium over year (5,2)

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20d

Follow scholar's teaching (5)

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21d

Nervously linger passing river in Scottish town (5)

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25d

Man seen in alleys at intervals (3)

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