| Long to secure gold trophy for prickly individual | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            22 Aug 2025 | 
          
          
            | Animal getting gold trophy in softwood case | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            30 Jun 2025 | 
          
          
            | Rodent with defensive spines (9) | 
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            | Put wrong price upon spiny animal (9) | 
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            | Rodent of the families Hystricidae or Erethizontidae, covered in defensive spines (9) | 
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            | Large rodent with sharp prickles (9) | 
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            | One spiked long drinks in gold vessel | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            11 Apr 2025 | 
          
          
            | Unusually nice pup, or creature with quills (9) | 
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            | Rodent with quills (9) | 
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            | Spiny rodent (9) | 
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            | Given a ring, the prince gets up, gets changed and takes the animal out | 
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            | - fish. spine-covered fish (9) | 
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            | Large rodent with body and tail covered with long, erectile spines (9) | 
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            | See you nip the rope - it has spikes! | 
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            | Prickly sort's wish to hold gold drinking vessel | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            17 Jun 2024 | 
          
          
            | There's no cure for Pip! He's come out in these sharp spikes all over! | 
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            | Spiny rodent caught up in something pig-like (9) | 
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            | Prickly little critter (9) | 
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            | Rodent with sharp black-and-white spikes (9) | 
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            | Large rodent | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            21 Jun 2023 | 
          
          
            | Large rodent | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            12 Sep 2022 | 
          
          
            | Mammal with quills | 
            USA Today | 
            14 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | ___ Tree, band named after a large rodent with spines, known for "Lazarus" | 
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            | Large spiny rodent | 
            The Telegraph General Knowledge | 
            03 May 2021 | 
          
          
            | You said cut up wood -- it's prickly! | 
            The Telegraph Toughie | 
            04 Mar 2021 | 
          
          
            | *Prickly animal that may consume bark (6 to 9) | 
            Universal | 
            18 Oct 2020 | 
          
          
            | Rodent caught awake within interior to tiny hole  | 
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            | Creature with more than one spine | 
            Universal | 
            23 Dec 2019 | 
          
          
            | Critter with bristles | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            18 Oct 2019 | 
          
          
            | One pointedly protected small cavity storing trophy at home  | 
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            | Rodent with sharp black-and-white spikes | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            02 Feb 2019 | 
          
          
            | Featured creature (five letters) | 
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            | Hole to keep a serving of tea in that's spiked  | 
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            | Ridiculous price upon large rodent  | 
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            | Prickly critter | 
            Jonesin | 
            23 Jun 2015 | 
          
          
            | Spiny rodent's meat talked of up in Edinburgh originally  | 
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            | Quill bearer | 
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            | Quill bearer | 
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            | Prickly critter | 
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            | Quilled critter | 
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            | Bristly rodent | 
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            | 525-mile river in Alaska | 
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            | Prototype of "Pogo" character. | 
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