Daily Mail Cryptic Crossword #17741

Daily Mail Cryptic · 30 clues with answers and explanations · 2025-11-03

1 Raise tripod so nervously in parts of an aircraft (7,5)

Answer

COCKPITDOORS
8 Work before a big film? (7)

Answer

PREQUEL
9 Largely unmixed opinion in range (7)

Answer

PURVIEW
11 Varying rent? It came as payment (10)

Def

payment

Type

Anagram

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anagram of RENT? + IT + CAME = REMITTANCE; definition: "payment"

Answer

REMITTANCE
12 Drop in staff allocations (4)

Answer

FALL
14 Performer with story on radio gets to escape (4,4)

Answer

TURNTAIL
16 Jack hopes to cook for another male (6)

Answer

JOSEPH
17 Thing used by rower in wonder, we hear (3)

Answer

OAR
19 Grants local low status? Not entirely (6)

Def

Grants

Type

Charade

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AL (deletion="local") + LOW (from clue) + S (first_letter="status?") = ALLOWS; definition: "Grants"

Answer

ALLOWS
21 Work out price he'd adjusted (8)

Type

Anagram

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anagram of PRICE + HE'D = DECIPHER

Answer

DECIPHER
24 Small measure in Chinese (4)

Answer

INCH
25 Unusually worn discs ending in this problem for sailors? (10)

Answer

CROSSWINDS
27 Relate to part of rugby pitch, middle of zone (5,2)

Answer

TOUCHON
28 Perennial plant? It's able to be cultivated (7)

Type

Anagram

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anagram of IT'S + ABLE = ASTILBE

Answer

ASTILBE
29 Pilot cheered possibly aboard aerial transport? (12)

Type

Anagram

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anagram of PILOT + CHEERED = HELICOPTERED

Answer

HELICOPTERED