No lady really keeping warm while cold down there? (3,3,4,3,2,8)
No lady really keeping warm while cold down there? (3,3,4,3,2,8)
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1970s clothing not very good on idiot (4,5)
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Coral island where first twelve characters left (5)
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Wild stunt by footballer taking out centre (7)
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Terminations from Iago and avengement, what do we have here then? (7)
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See 22
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Charitable fund-raiser perhaps having bagged £0, mountain to climb at first (10)
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Banks after bullion in French city (7)
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Company entertained by short film from Hitchcock, pioneer of broadcasting (7)
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Grouse beater’s work done then? Got you! (3,5,2)
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‘Latest’ read by anchors reviewed – here? (8)
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Describe Scottish island to the west, only outsiders on there (7)
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Undo chain? I can having escaped after wriggling, as escapologist (7)
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Somewhat horny, a large antelope (5)
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Washerwoman’s Sunset Strip strip? (9)
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No lady really keeping warm while cold down there? (3,3,4,3,2,8)
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Aunt’s loo rebuilt for population of ghost town? (3,1,4)
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Jam stain (4)
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See 1
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A positive picked up on the beach? (6)
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Do that and don’t talk dirty! (4,4,5,3)
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Rank, porky dog (6)
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Most gory Horrible Histories told, and brilliant after disembowelment (15)
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South vanishing from US state, country sawn in half – as if by magic! (8)
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See 6
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Row in divorce city blowing up – funny (3-5)
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Aware about mark suggesting slip, something unpleasant found in canal? (6)
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Flush lavatory, emptying beneath plane (6)
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Tongue inside your dungarees (4)
Crossword Information
Series
Cryptic
Number
29801
Date
16 September 2025
Setter
Paul
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