The Sun Cryptic Crossword July 17 2025 Answers
The complete list of answers to the The Sun Cryptic Crossword published on July 17 2025.
- 28
- Total Clues
- 14
- Total Across
- 14
- Total Down
Clues Across (14 total)
(1)
Men in cowboy leggings?
The answer is: chaps
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Lawsuit involves rotter in dramatic fall
The answer is: cascade
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Expert on waves that break skin
The answer is: surface
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(9)
Make good your sins an hour after midday?
The answer is: atone
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(10)
Saint was cannibal? Time for disclosure!
The answer is: statement
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(11)
Some into occult also
The answer is: too
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(12)
A coup getting school place first
The answer is: putsch
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(14)
Save energy with curse undone
The answer is: rescue
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(17)
Soft wet lump in mouth
The answer is: gob
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Done Times cryptic: got it licked maybe
The answer is: moistened
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(22)
High Church feature?
The answer is: spire
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Parisian is in hole? Ring police
The answer is: gestapo
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Odd characters in secret exercises on staff
The answer is: sceptre
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Criminal nears noose
The answer is: snare
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Clues Down (14 total)
(1)
Playgroups?
The answer is: casts
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(2)
Bear sat awkwardly alongside
The answer is: abreast
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(3)
Humiliate husband in uniform
The answer is: shame
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Witty Charlie at bar
The answer is: clever
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Scare rattles Dotty
The answer is: startle
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First-class trotter perhaps for cooking?
The answer is: afoot
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It's said I shoot up ugly building
The answer is: eyesore
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(12)
Horse likely to clear every fence?
The answer is: pegasus
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(13)
Observe married men in bed
The answer is: comment
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(15)
Musical work: Farewell to Prison?
The answer is: cantata
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(16)
Metal leg adjusted gives prickly feeling
The answer is: tingle
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New filling for cheese offers solution
The answer is: brine
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Screens international games
The answer is: tests
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(21)
Unmanned plane to make low hum
The answer is: drone
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