Independent Cryptic #12202

2025-11-17

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Across

1a

Constant stimulation in boozy party (8)

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6a

Spy housing missile in oil-producing plant (6)

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9a

Huge region over in USA is Appalachia (4)

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10a

Not mad about silver in great demand? (10)

Generating...

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

ALL THERE (not mad) around AG (silver)

11a

First doctor in old Florentine house? (6)

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12a

Coachmen transported Native Americans (8)

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13a

Containing enthusiasm almost catch dawn breaking in country (10)

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16a

French are binding feet for amphibians (4)

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17a

Any number attending earlier Greek festival (4)

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19a

Writer's mark fresh and natural in Old English (10)

Generating...

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

SCAR (mark) + WILD (fresh and natural) inside O E (old English)

22a

American in frightful Butlin's City (8)

Generating...

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

Anagram (frightful) of BUTLINS around A

24a

In France you study Italian dialect? (6)

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26a

British tree diedremains rot (10)

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27a

Run pipe down well (4)

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28a

One agile moving to catch ball? (6)

Generating...

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

Anagram (moving) of AGILE around (to catch) O (ball), &lit

29a

Mrs Swan perhaps doth show style (8)

Generating...

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

‘Has a way’ (does/doth show style) in cod-Shakespearean English, for Anne Hathaway, wife of the ‘Swan of Avon’ as Ben Jonson dubbed Shakespeare

Down

2d

Bleak wind from south east (7)

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3d

Arab very shortly heading north (5)

Generating...

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

Reversal (heading north, in a down clue) of IN A MO

4d

Sons much appreciated Mrs Harker's bottom (7)

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5d

Ring up to import island flower (5)

Generating...

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

Reversal (up) of CALL around (to import) I

6d

Planned to have school on the Levant? (7)

Generating...

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

SCH (school) + E MED (eastern Mediterranean, which borders the lands known as the Levant)

7d

Tiger seen roaming where lion holds sway (9)

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8d

Assaults furiousstill on police record? (7)

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14d

Wine unknown in cooler shown upside-down (9)

Generating...

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

Z (unknown) + IN + FAN (cooler) + reversal (upside-down) of LED (shown, as in shown/led to your seat)

15d

Bow of flood rescue vessel in sound (3)

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18d

Ruthless force goes out to limit minor strike (7)

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19d

Large book one Rex opens for dramatist (7)

Generating...

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

OS (outsized, large) + B (book) + ONE (from surface) around R (Rex opens). John Osborne, author of Look Back in Anger , among other things

20d

Chatter insanely but make steady progress (7)

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21d

Six feet under tailless marine mammal in lowest lake (7)

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23d

Fish advanced into Scottish waters (5)

Generating...

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

Insertion (into) of A (advanced) inside LOCH

25d

Author returns to pen good letter in Greek (5)

Generating...

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

Reversal (returns) of AMIS (Kingsley or Martin, English novelists) around (to pen) G