Puzzler Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 Jan 04

• Alan's smashed up about the nose (5) Crossword Clue
• At least as much despite that (11) Crossword Clue
• Beam of light down the mine-passage (5) Crossword Clue
• Chic steps on the radio (5) Crossword Clue
• Close examination of soft gown (5) Crossword Clue
• Coins become something else (6) Crossword Clue
• Crazy device for training babies (5) Crossword Clue
• Criminal in country house, at home (7) Crossword Clue
• Dawn departure is unauthorised absence (6,5) Crossword Clue
• English painter is first a performer (7) Crossword Clue
• Exercise after sport with European coin (5) Crossword Clue
• Frolics with pickled flower buds (6) Crossword Clue
• Informer to change north for west? (6) Crossword Clue
• Japes about king with precious stone (6) Crossword Clue
• Pet is tender to a point (6) Crossword Clue
• Pins too fancy? There are alternatives (7) Crossword Clue
• Requiring massaging, it's said (7) Crossword Clue
• Royal Engineers said to go free (7) Crossword Clue
• Second side showing energy (5) Crossword Clue
• Shrink back when songbird gets left inside (6) Crossword Clue
• Small number in all-in struggle for wool fat (7) Crossword Clue
• Snake on an old train (7) Crossword Clue
• Standard Ford car coat (5) Crossword Clue
• Start again by returning large birds to Queen (6) Crossword Clue
• Tip urns out to reveal vegetables (7) Crossword Clue
• Where it is cold, cold inside lorry (6) Crossword Clue