Hack down willow without determination, mate (6)
Hack down willow without determination, mate (6)
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Hack down willow without determination, mate (6)
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Player holding old wood from elsewhere beside tee (6)
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Great architect, builder of treehouse (4)
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Part of horsedrawn vehicle left when European departs 1d or 19 (10)
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Miserable sailor caught in plane (6)
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Discovers last of beech nuts are spoilt (8)
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Clear misuse of axe on tree (9)
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Key limes oddly deficient as trees (4)
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Small feller’s tool, kind of blue (4)
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Mars rose or cherry tree put in ahead of time (3,6)
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Ring in tree I reportedly know, something like chestnut or bay (8)
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A pollinator’s seen around large poplars (6)
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Leaves are bound to be given its protection (4,6)
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Pine, perhaps, for building agreement (4)
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Twigs, say, can turn a bright colour (6)
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Quickly move from second section of rustic orchard (6)
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Use gun then use fists in really hot spot (7)
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Cut cedar, initially in way (5)
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American word for elder in Arnold’s terminology (7)
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Black part of forest, comparatively leafless (6)
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Italian tree’s interior destroyed, not in isolation (5,4)
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Isn’t comfortable around gum trees right away concealing article (7)
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Eucalyptus, say, he put out with plant put stop to everything (3,2,3,5)
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Fox in Kent disturbed those closest in tree? (4,2,3)
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Place such as 25 where bark may be secured (7)
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Artificial trees one turned over, caught by cop (7)
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It helps one clearly see nonsense (7)
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Face what’s hard in 10? Wise man (6)
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Source of berries delivered some time before (5)
Crossword Information
Series
Prize
Number
29942
Date
28 February 2026
Setter
Brendan
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