Independent Cryptic #12185

2025-10-28

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7a

Old novel certainly not returned (6)

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8a

Dog brought over eccentric's glasses (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

LAB ( LAB rador dog) reversed (brought over) + LOON’S (belonging to a simple-minded or eccentric person)

10a

Funny shorts for fellow radio presenter are wrong style essentially (11)

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12a

M Cloudy u (3)

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13a

One hears special 12A half of it Art (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

Anagram of (special) DUO (entry at 12 across) and I ( one of the two [half] letters in It) and ART

14a

Somewhere They Can't Find Me c (7)

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15a

Hunter taking two fewer shots than expected (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

EAGLE (in golf, a score of two under par [two fewer shots than expected] is referred to as an eagle) double definition

17a

C Homeward Bound r (3)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

MEW contained in (bound) ho MEW ard

19a

' America s (5)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

YANKS (informal term for American people [folk]) double definition

21a

A I Am A Rock c (7)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

( DON [an academic] containing [tackles] [ I AM ]) + D (daughter)

23a

Friends wanting third almost group of three great musicians (7)

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25a

Anyone hearing sheep? (3)

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26a

Simon not in a revised list of possible award winners (11)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

Anagram of (revised) SIMON NOT IN A

27a

Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme d (8)

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28a

Musicians' smooth act now intermittently on stage (6)

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Down

1d

Someone playing Bridge Over Troubled Water interrupted by loud app? (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

( S [South; designation of someone playing the card game Bridge]) + O [over] + an anagram of [troubled] WATER ) containing (interrupted by) F (forte; loud)

2d

Marines in trench coming up given a wave (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

RM (Royal Marines) contained in (in) DEEP (term denoting a trench in the ocean, such as the Marianas Trench in the Pacific) reversed (coming up; down entry)

3d

Make Art in Rose of Aberdeen perhaps whoop it up (15)

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4d

Fibrous structure of super grains releasing energy (6)

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5d

S The Boxer u (15)

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6d

Paul Simon's like terribly bald and bony (8)

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9d

Say greatly amplifying [The Sound of Silence] abroad (5)

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11d

Task getting bottom off strange drinking bowl (5)

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16d

Mark regularly argued at parties (8)

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18d

Mrs Robinson p (5)

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20d

Careless kissers stop in case of STD (8)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

( LIPS (kissers) + HO [instruction to a horse to stop]) contained in (in) SD (outer letters of [case of] S t D )

21d

Q Feelin' Groovy u (5)

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22d

Releases covers of Bookends after trial recording? (6)

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24d

H A Most Peculiar Man u (6)

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I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

H (husband) contained in (entertained by) an anagram of (peculiar) A MOST