Independent Cryptic #1869

2025-12-21

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1a

Shout out for Hearts in matches yelling Goal (8)

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6a

Army doctor shifted hips down a bit (6)

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9a

American backing Trump's third term in newspaper article - strange world (6)

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10a

Half undressed man checked out (8)

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11a

Mop tea from cups (4)

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12a

Irish writer on a bender beginning to imagine novel (10)

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13a

English really get mushy about love at times (12)

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17a

Greek character returned call in full pub (12)

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20a

Prisoners' tea mum arranged complete with relations (10)

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23a

Duck after spies see you in Rome (4)

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24a

Legless board work on drug dose (8)

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25a

Fitter batters you'd expect to make fewer runs otherwise (6)

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26a

Parking behind college a considerable distance (6)

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27a

Forcibly make a sailor dangle aloft caught on spar's tip (8)

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Down

2d

Become thinner? Order a fryer (6)

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3d

Chinese toilet you're in starts to test everything (9)

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4d

Route through grandstand is covered with beer (5)

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5d

Madonna covers numbers Rolling Stones worked on (7)

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6d

Travel writer back from Cairo cut old stuff up (9)

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7d

E.g. stud to sleep with queen (5)

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8d

Cooking nerd used clove (8)

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14d

Doctor came in GTi without an obvious explanation (9)

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15d

Putting feathers on lady's head going to get clips (9)

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16d

Landscape painter introduced to father or rather mother (8)

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18d

Dolphin swims up Margate's harbours on the ebb (7)

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19d

Trouble that you have to step across climbing ornate tower (6)

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21d

Retailer's exchanges left in envelopes to be returned (5)

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22d

Half of fans in restaurant? More (5)

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