Independent Cryptic #12015

2025-04-12

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1a

Live donkeys and squirrels (7)

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5a

Someone from Africa united Gabon with Angola (7)

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9a

French banker with billions in US capital (5)

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10a

Some birds love to get instruction in developing chests (9)

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11a

Drunk is ready to drive off (6,2)

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12a

Joe has both hands on her (4)

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14a

Match design of white gear (5,4)

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16a

Woman swims regularly in pool (5)

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17a

Part of single comment to the audience (5)

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19a

A Parisian died to save earth, though no longer worshipped (9)

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21a

My husband's caught a salmon (4)

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22a

A US singer initially opted to go for a state of temporary inactivity (8)

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26a

Nigel Short, a foreign agent to be kept enslaved (2,7)

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27a

Contact a Brontë in short clothes (5)

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28a

It could be if that makes you a natal worker (7)

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29a

Coppers given relief for illness (7)

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Down

1d

Some quondam Boanerges's stand (4)

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2d

Pilot finds a sex appliance after clearing out bedroom (7)

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3d

European minister rudely interrupted by European president (10)

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4d

UK charity in need of square deal (5)

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5d

Virgin sees sense in nude dancing (9)

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6d

Old war correspondent has exposed women (4)

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7d

Canvas had to be put over Mexican bloomers (7)

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8d

Sad aliens, sadly, talked through their noses (9)

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13d

Still unable to poo? (10)

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14d

Chairman's failed theory regarding workers' co-op groups (9)

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15d

Cast a shadow over one dead traitor on ecstasy (9)

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18d

Crane nested in Greenwich abode (7)

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20d

Japanese art form for which furniture store holds a lot of store (7)

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23d

The old lady oddly admits: "I give up" (5)

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24d

Opposed to Sophocles play having gone off (4)

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25d

Down the tube (4)

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