Daily Mail Cryptic #17769

2025-12-11

Solve on Daily Mail →

Across

1a

Unusually rare food eaten by person, one checking a text? (11)

Generating...
9a

Judge entering place for retirement gets reprimanded (7)

Generating...
10a

Lugs ale for distribution, familiar sight on the coast? (7)

flowerflowerflower
11a

Starts to grip unusually thick spare tyre? (3)

flowerflowerflower
12a

Companion read in an agitated state about a pretence (7)

Generating...
13a

Old coin by crumbling road in Spanish-speaking country (7)

Generating...
14a

Brood amid this itinerary (3)

Generating...
15a

Daughter on ride after rambling, describing some fruit? (5)

Generating...
17a

Pale like a farmyard creature? (5)

Generating...
18a

Last of fencers with promise has suitable item (5)

Generating...
20a

Fine soldiers given case of champagne in squad (5)

Generating...
22a

Part of dreadful mishap in German city (3)

Generating...
24a

Cheerful sales agent back after shot on course (7)

Generating...
25a

Engineer tired on board ship making signs of progress? (7)

Generating...
26a

Sound in a field under discussion endlessly (3)

Generating...
27a

Small opera song is a treat I fancy (7)

flowerflowerflower
28a

Iran due to alter characteristic of a TV pilot? (7)

flowerflowerflower
29a

Group of players followed or sent on a tangent? (11)

Generating...

Down

1d

Left writer on island, site renovated for those running docks? (4,11)

Generating...
2d

Superficial pair upset about origin of this conflict (7)

Generating...
3d

Compromise is good amid awful feud (5)

Generating...
4d

Traditional London resident in facility shortly with offer (4,5)

Generating...
5d

Noted blood count? (7)

Generating...
6d

Circle taken on with a hunch? (5,10)

Generating...
7d

Counter account penned by a British American (6)

Generating...
8d

Old coin woman concealed in following note (6)

Generating...
16d

Main front possibly for mole? (9)

flowerflowerflower
18d

Note agents with learner in party (6)

flowerflowerflower
19d

Appointed place in legal document (7)

Generating...
21d

Designate sport lacking weight with symbol (7)

Generating...
23d

Do some maths incorrectly in note Dad's rewritten (6)

Generating...
25d

Composer thus supported by Western country (5)

Generating...