Aristotle unsure about game best unplayed (7,8)
Aristotle unsure about game best unplayed (7,8)
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Check
Reveal
Clear
Across
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Increase each client’s capital (5-4)
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Odd airline’s dance (5)
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What Musashi Miyamoto eats? (7)
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Suffer in German and therefore in Latin (7)
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Reeves’ assistant, say, screwed up idea (4)
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Cheats with every second bullet boring outraged readers (10)
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Publish in haste, lacking wherewithal to make papyrus (4,3)
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Commonwealth partner opposed to fruit being cut short twice (7)
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Modest fare returned to pub – followed by a spasm (10)
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Nothing emptied restaurant like an old club chairman in a blazer? (4)
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Poetry in motion has new disorder (7)
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Pepper setter, protected by horse (7)
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Such as Shere Khan heard here? (5)
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Paid off bill, including cut for joint (9)
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Aristotle unsure about game best unplayed (7,8)
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Turns sanctimonious bugger in backward glance (8)
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One slips during trial of lag (5)
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Illegally issued amidst a revolution involving untold number (8)
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Making lax use of it (6)
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Those with degrees dine out, inspired by good wishes (9)
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Become apparent in last of coffee blend (6)
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Signal most recent conversation – pronouncement while playing 1? (6,4,5)
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Source of pressure for Putin running amok includes wild romp before start of talks (9)
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Kremlin-style (dis)information might keep a wrong ‘un up? (8)
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Such transparency is not made with glass (8)
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Require leads to end now; the act is looming (6)
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Still a road to – or from – the Big Apple (6)
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‘I could be a toolmaker’ – Starmer’s first lie on the radio (5)
Crossword Information
Series
Cryptic
Number
29870
Date
5 December 2025
Setter
Omnibus
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