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Easy Cryptic Crossword

July 31, 2023


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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  • Party clobber (4)

  • Unusual play with Act I translated (8)

  • Platform that is provided with small flowers (7)

  • 10 Fun and games for birds (5)

  • 11 Majestic sort of lager (5)

  • 12 Where sacrifices may be made involving one star (6)

  • 14 In Armagh a stoic is dismayed (6)

  • 16 A dog caught Stan's partner (6)

  • 19 Animals approached outskirts of Leeds (6)

  • 21 Container, as required by brass band members (5)

  • 24 Going on, a part of a yard (5)

  • 25 Defence in boats at sea (7)

  • 26 Oil installation engineers with best bib and tucker? (8)

  • 27 The alcoholic's partial cure (4)

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  • Tot swallowed by fish — it's a nightmare (3,5)

  • Rock star's undercover operation (5)

  • Italian trade union has to read document (6)

  • One-off programme for aviator (5)

  • Warm drink (7)

  • A little animal is terribly lean (4)

  • Fliers flapping arms (6)

  • 13 Fashion on sale as at certain periods (8)

  • 15 Avoid result of decapitation (4,3)

  • 17 Stupid baronet plunged in river (6)

  • 18 A biro's deployed to make a line on a weather map (6)

  • 20 John the singer is left in school (5)

  • 22 Trees , we hear, that will cover billiard table (5)

  • 23 Just blonde (4)

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