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COBIBH cryptic #1

◆◆ · By Nightingale · Published 2025-04-15T07:12:51.851Z

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  • Chris Jones 50:53 · 2025-04-17T11:39:25.636Z
    Tough but enjoyable - good effort for your first full cryptic! Some very nice clues in there, few that I didn’t quite parse - I’ll drop some specific feedback on Discord later 👍 Thanks for sharing ☺️
    • Nightingale constructor · 2025-04-17T15:17:38.824Z
      Thanks for trying the puzzle! Tough but enjoyable is roughly what I was aiming for, so that's nice to hear
      Play today's daily mini crossword
      1D
      See angel in a storm, taking in washing (8)
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      Across
      1. 8A
        Feathers lining path initially rile proprietor (9)
      2. 9A
        Inexperienced troops flanked by general (5)
      3. 10A
        A team needs to band together along the line (7)
      4. 11A
        Article about first apprentice in plant (7)
      5. 12A
        Cymbeline's daughter besieges model united nations -- that'll activate the body's defences! (9)
      6. 15A
        Excitement of free verse composition (5)
      7. 16A
        One receiving money from acting sergeant with no lead (7)
      8. 18A
        Puzzle is likely to throw graduate and master (7)
      9. 21A
        Team go on a bender at home (5)
      10. 23A
        Evidence of museum workers entering site regularly (9)
      11. 25A
        Barbie's posh boyfriend is a scaredy-cat (7)
      12. 26A
        Stradivari was one individual inspired by Protestant reformer (7)
      13. 28A
        Lucky Erikson returns to easternmost edge of Vinland territory (5)
      14. 29A
        Worse customs, some say, yielding false planes (9)
      Down
      1. 1D
        See angel in a storm, taking in washing (8)
      2. 2D
        Failing home business (6)
      3. 3D
        Run right round Latin Corner (4)
      4. 4D
        Exclusive ocean luxury on vacation (4)
      5. 5D
        Ghastly apparition with one bit switched off causes colour blindness (10)
      6. 6D
        Party of the summer capped by opening of Fringe (8)
      7. 7D
        Partially suspend earlier draw (6)
      8. 9D
        Get rejected in every forum at first, leading to heartache (5)
      9. 13D
        One crazy acrobatic feat: endless flipping (3)
      10. 14D
        Timeless grandeur masking backsliding is characteristic of some Poles (10)
      11. 17D
        Where locks wind up in East London -- in carriers? (8)
      12. 19D
        Poem is due to be heard (3)
      13. 20D
        Takewondo beginner interrupts masters wrestling with foam pad perhaps (8)
      14. 21D
        Calm down! After one fellow is taken out, dodgy cover-up is going ahead (6)
      15. 22D
        Chained by work every so often, along with my boss (5)
      16. 24D
        Expatriate russian fighter follows head of Europol about (6)
      17. 26D
        This bar is a topless one (4)
      18. 27D
        Occasion for measure of sentiment (4)
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