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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Across1 Estimate speed (4)
3 Recoil from disadvantage (8)
9 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)
Down1 Engineers growing weary and going to bed (8)
2 Accepts a translation of Keats (5)
4 Turn down garbage (6)
5 Revolver taken in hand by driver (5)
6 A doctor got up for this chap (7)
7 New Zealander seen in khaki windcheater (4)
8 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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