Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation (8)
Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation (8)
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Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation (8)
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I say purchase pasta, for example, that goes in kitchen cupboard (6)
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One called up to study one’s lines (9)
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Criticise minor injury in time at the crease (5)
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Possibly made radioactive, so no admittance, unfortunately (12)
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Food for Nancy that may stick in the throat (4)
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Emphasise how one’s counted as a teenager? (10)
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Irish saint almost laid out, harbouring unfatherly thoughts? (10)
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Avoid attention (4)
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Lack of guile in what may be shown on the screen (12)
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Italian team doesn’t take the lead in some three months (5)
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From abroad obtain more unusual diet (9)
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Irritating person after wander about has to race away (6)
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Pilgrim’s Progress
for example involves travel right through narrow lane
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Friar stabbed, not the first (4)
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Calorie associated with single ice-cream (4)
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Reader in church sounds like Hannibal? (6)
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Emitting gasp, I staggered to see my double (8,5)
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Gathering family I head for black state (8)
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Mark address wrong too, perhaps (10)
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Something on toast for hotheads? (5,5)
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Moody secretary taking age without using any paper (13)
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Disconcerting, to be away on the golf course? (3-7)
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Signed up, but got less (10)
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Singer in large church lifting one hand, then the other (8)
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Bad scare about parking: a scuff (6)
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Cover over swimming pool (4)
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Married over a year, so eyed as naive (4)
Crossword Information
Series
Cryptic
Number
29931
Date
16 February 2026
Setter
Vulcan
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