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Easy Cryptic Crossword

April 24, 2022


A free daily cryptic crossword that's not too difficult - just right for solving in your coffee break.

It is also an ideal cryptic crossword for beginners to tackle.

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  • Estimate speed (4)

  • Recoil from disadvantage (8)

  • Mimic to make airport departure (4,3)

  • 10 Joint carved below? (5)

  • 11 Trees uprooted and planted again (5)

  • 12 Fish for a girl on Monday (6)

  • 14 Daniel may be fixed ... (6)

  • 16 ... Frank may be the son going astray (6)

  • 19 Shake a container for arrows (6)

  • 21 Forbidden love in abandoned boat (5)

  • 24 Proprietor or new director? (5)

  • 25 Appear scintillating in new singlet (7)

  • 26 Letters from Burl's daughter? (8)

  • 27 One look may be child's-play (1-3)

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  • Engineers growing weary and going to bed (8)

  • Accepts a translation of Keats (5)

  • Turn down garbage (6)

  • Revolver taken in hand by driver (5)

  • A doctor got up for this chap (7)

  • New Zealander seen in khaki windcheater (4)

  • Calm those getting upset about nothing (6)

  • 13 Ruined - yet ran to a lawyer (8)

  • 15 Big lizards alarming us again (7)

  • 17 Confused, but I do get the lot this way! (6)

  • 18 Scoundrel going after black shoe (6)

  • 20 A composer some opera-lover digs? (5)

  • 22 Restrains a killer in a motel (5)

  • 23 Class for Bond's boss (4)

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