Independent Cryptic #1877

2026-02-15

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Across

1a

Undivided cooking apple on right of oven (8)

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6a

Notable partygoer brought back aboard oil rig tipsy (6)

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9a

Hide pepper (4)

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10a

Cake British composer eats when the news is on? (10)

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11a

Slow movement moving to Toscanini when piano comes in (12)

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13a

Small plane's crew's using AM that cuts out at certain frequency (6)

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15a

Iron front and back of shirt holding baby objecting to it? (8)

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17a

Snickers that's disgusting after sandwiches (8)

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19a

Nun's remains in nameless grave (6)

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20a

Cravenly lose first of series - boozing essential (12)

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24a

Awkward part alongside Charlie Brown (10)

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25a

Fat dog on lead in field (4)

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26a

Junky lacking caution emptied twenty bags (6)

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27a

Let an Irish priest on X? (8)

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Down

2d

Large tentacled creature raised behind pub is extraordinary (10)

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3d

Some other people presumably suggesting southerly wind (5)

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4d

Running club train - it makes running easier (9)

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5d

Exceedingly hot in apartment and going up (7)

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6d

Tribe from apparently glacial part of UK? (5)

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7d

Leave hands to become cracked (9)

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8d

Excellent red at dinner (4)

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12d

Swear idiot always spilled tea (10)

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14d

Women's group in US recalled eloquence of Lincoln (9)

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16d

Silly men heartless viragos lead to ruin? (9)

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18d

Rugby hooligan heard in bar (7)

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21d

Remain black and sticky (5)

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22d

The end Cervantes might have written delicate and charming (5)

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23d

King and queen flying north sound pleased (4)

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