Daily Mail Cryptic #17774

2025-12-18

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Across

1a

Poisoning affecting stuff getting pumped? (11)

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9a

I ferret around feature in a forest? (3,4)

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10a

I am seen after relocating plant (7)

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11a

Carpet seen on and off for fitting? (3)

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12a

Questions young offender toying with guns (7)

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13a

Formal celebrity with children close to family (7)

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14a

Still in Egypt sadly missing GP (3)

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15a

A week with variant of flu is terrible (5)

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17a

Produce last of moves with weak chess piece (5)

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18a

Dishes we kept back in sites at intervals (5)

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20a

Beam of light applied to artificial fabric (5)

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22a

Note penned by journalist for finale (3)

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24a

Study a form of exercise and acclimatise once more (7)

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25a

Agitated lot begs for drinking glasses (7)

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26a

Drone, maybe, captured by probe earlier (3)

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27a

Giddy feeling I got somehow behind retired priest (7)

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28a

Concern about liberal pedigree (7)

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29a

U.S. city command receiving stick for political issue? (3,3,5)

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Down

1d

Use the worst stuff in fight with graduate amid number with relative (6,3,6)

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2d

I gear up for play in Italian city (7)

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3d

Notions retained by Astrid easily (5)

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4d

All, say, nervously defending a French team's leader are target for criticism (4,5)

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5d

Area in three months too restricted for dogs, perhaps (7)

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6d

Same cost I bear surprisingly when entertaining writer, one not fully in club? (9,6)

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7d

Guy put up for ridicule? (6)

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8d

Priest touring unknown gorge (6)

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16d

Eldest child has broken front ribs (9)

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18d

Try entering nearest river (6)

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19d

Prospect in the main? (3,4)

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21d

Bold Ben when agitated is bought off (7)

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23d

Eliminate piles in a mess after end of period (6)

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25d

Odd points in Greece with stunning lizard (5)

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