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Easy Cryptic Crossword

March 18, 2025


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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  •  7  It's a small world (5,6)

  •  8  Drilling is uninteresting (6)

  •  9  River skirting the end of Birnam Wood (6)

  • 10 Purchased a branch on time (6)

  • 12 Song and dance advertisement (6)

  • 13 Output of mine some prospector exploited (3)

  • 14 Team about to take on inventor (6)

  • 16 One member's allowed out for shellfish (6)

  • 18 Invent cosmetics (4-2)

  • 20 Take no notice of developing region (6)

  • 22 Team-leader, chef, explorer (7,4)

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  •  1  Some ammonia found in military stores (4)

  •  2  Noise constrained by English final (6)

  •  3  Bring hot nuts from seaside resort (8)

  •  4  Coins put into it may be lost (4)

  •  5  Thin layer, round, neither vegetable nor mineral (6)

  •  6  See great variety in accommodation aboard ship (8)

  • 11 Red canon joining the artillery (8)

  • 12 Sign able to confuse some Europeans (8)

  • 15 See about shelter, being ready for bed (6)

  • 17 Half a minute at present for fish (6)

  • 19 Have in mind a scale drawing (4)

  • 21 Gardening tool for a dissolute fellow (4)

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