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Saturday, January 15, 2022
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) John __, former Commons speaker criticised for the cost of his apartment refurbishment in 2009
(8-across) Moroccan port
(9-across) Guardian crossword setter - from Birmingham
(10-across) The __, John Lanchester novel from 2019
(11-across) Units of currency in Israel
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Beatrice and Sidney __, founders of the London School of Economics
(2-down) Sergeant __, character played by Andy Hamilton in the BBC's Revolting People
(3-down) Cy __, US artist whose Untitled
(4-down) Acronym for the Donald C. Backer radio telescope in South Africa
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Saturday, January 8, 2022
Across Clues and Answers: (6-across) One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be?
(8-across) French city known for its cathedral's stained 12
(9-across) __ Fitzgerald, jazz singer
(10-across) 2000 movie on the drugs trade, directed by Steven Soderbergh
(12-across) See 6
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Egyptian hieroglyph representing life
(2-down) See 6 Across
(3-down) Google's mobile operating system
(4-down) Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire
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Saturday, January 1, 2022
Across Clues and Answers: (6-across) The opening words of A Tale of Two Cities
(7-across) See 6
(9-across) See 17
(10-across) The last words of Jane Eyre
(11-across) 1920s neologism for a male escort
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Mark __, actor who plays Merlin in the Kingsman franchise
(2-down) Call Me __, Michael Ashcroft's biography of Cameron
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One of the herbes de Provence? (4-down) Tapered monuments, two of which stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris
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Saturday, December 18, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (9-across) What Band Aid asked if they knew in their 1984 10
(10-across) Ernst Blofeld's designation within Spectre in the Bond books
(11-across) What Renée and Renato urged us to save in their 1982 9 10
(12-across) Dark version of ochre
(13-across) Who had a boy child, according to Harry Belafonte in his 1957 9 10
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) __ Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday
(2-down) Element with atomic number 7
(3-down) Church in Smith Square, London known as a concert venue
(4-down) Choirmaster with whom Military Wives had a 9 10 in 2011
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Saturday, December 11, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) Devonshire abbey known for its fortified wine
(8-across) Industrial region of western Germany
(9-across) Wendy __ OBE, poet who imagined making cocoa for Kingsley Amis?
(10-across) Light ships developed by the Portuguese in the 15th century
(11-across) Mollusc known in South African as perlemoen
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Greek anise aperitif
(2-down) Historic library in Perth, Scotland
(3-down) Engineer who received the first transatlantic radio signal on 12 December 1901
(4-down) Kenneth __, independent counsel central to the Clinton impeachment
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Saturday, December 4, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) Baby Spice?
(8-across) The eleventh sign in the zodiac
(9-across) Russian newspaper, once the official organ of the Communist Party
(10-across) Author whose works include The Origins of Totalitarianism
(11-across) See 1 Down
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Poet known for his 6
(2-down) See 16
(3-down) The Islamic month of fasting
(4-down) Klaus __, physicist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
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Saturday, November 27, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) Oscar-winning former Labour MP
(8-across) Tanzanian city, one-time seat of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
(9-across) River flowing through Huddersfield
(10-across) See 3 Down
(11-across) See 15 Down
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Actor who played le Carre's Little Drummer Girl in 2018
(2-down) Transnational organisation based in Paris
(3-down) Actor who plays Shiv in HBO's Succession
(4-down) See 12
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Saturday, November 20, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (6-across) Novel by Marilyn French from 1977
(8-across) Ironically named area of central London, once home to one of the largest mail sorting offices in the world
(9-across) Author who had men explain things to her?
(11-across) See 13
(13-across) Comedy from 2000 with Renée Zellweger in the title role
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) __ Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday
(2-down) __ Hunter, shipbuilders on the Tyne
(3-down) Unit in typography equal to a specified point size
(4-down) Mountains separating Chile and Argentina
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Saturday, November 13, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) European capital to which Fatboy Slim and Dua Lipa, among others, have been given the key?
(8-across) Croix de __, military medal in France and Belgium
(9-across) See 21 Down
(10-across) PR company run by Stephen Fry and John Bird in the BBC's Absolute Power
(11-across) American warship attacked in Yemen in 2000
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Unesco world heritage site in County Antrim
(2-down) Rugby club based near Manchester
(3-down) Capital on the northern shore of Lake Victoria
(4-down) The founder of the Girl Guides movement
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Saturday, November 6, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (6-across) What, according to Philip Larkin, books are?
(7-across) __ Wynette, country singer
(9-across) The only person to have won tennis's Grand Slam as an amateur and a professional
(10-across) What, according to Auden, History may say to the defeated...
(11-across) ...but what it cannot do?
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Prolific author of Get Shorty and Rum Punch
(2-down) Asterix's homeland?
(3-down) Dam built
(4-down) Mrs __, character from The Rivals, known for her tendency to misspeak
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Friday, October 29, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (6-across) Name given to the killing of demonstrators in Manchester on 16 August 1819
(7-across) 2001 sci-fi film starring Kevin Spacey
(8-across) City in western Ukraine
(9-across) A construction designed to impress dignitaries - while disguising a less palatable truth
(10-across) Alistair Horne's history of the Algerian war, 1954-1962
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Rachel __, shadow chancellor
(2-down) Abbreviation used for diesel fuel for road vehicles
(3-down) French expression meaning in the know
(4-down) Coffeehouse chain founded in 1971
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Friday, October 22, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) WH Auden's first instruction to mourners in Funeral Blues
(8-across)
Common name for Zantedeschia aethiopica (9-across) See 7
(10-across) Northern Chilean province, river, port - and wine
(11-across) What Kubla Khan decreed in Xanadu, according to Coleridge
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Julia __, actor who plays Nicky Parsons in the Bourne films
(2-down) Dick and Jane's pet dog
(3-down) George Michael's request before you go-go?
(4-down) See 15 Across
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Friday, October 15, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) Australian state, capital Sydney
(8-across) Portuguese town in the Algarve
(9-across) See 10
(10-across) French president, 1959-1969
(12-across) Hamlet compared his father with Claudius as Hyperion to a __.
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Israeli prime minister 1977-1983
(2-down) City which became a shorthand term for 1990s peace agreements between Israel and the PLO
(3-down) The __, ECB cricket tournament which began in 2021
(4-down) Rivals to the Tories in the 18th and 19th centuries
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Friday, October 8, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) Common name for nacre
(8-across) The __, 1988 sci-fi horror film
(9-across) Research and campaign organisation and publisher based in Manchester
(10-across) __ Wormwood, her of the Roald Dahl book
(12-across) __ Lisle, woman beheaded for her support for fugitives from the Monmouth Rebellion
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) The German turnip
(2-down) Captain of the Pequod?
(3-down) Environmental campaign group formed in San Francisco in 1969
(4-down) See 3
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Friday, October 1, 2021
Across Clues and Answers: (7-across) Outsourcing company nicknamed Crapita in Private Eye
(8-across) Roman statesman - or a kind of salad
(9-across) Majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur
(10-across) Creator of Peter Pan
(11-across) South African province which includes Johannesburg
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Down Clues and Answers: (1-down) Michael __, director of Heat
(2-down) Landlocked country, capital Vaduz
(3-down) Chinese board game played with 144 tiles
(4-down) Acronym for diving equipment
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