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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Labour follower: “Half of London is a corrupt place”
5 Across: Can of fizzy cocktail
9 Across: Want to bump off daughter ... what are you on?
10 Across: Those in two minds about ultimately clumsy heel taps
11 Across: Sex drug helping to get a repeated performance
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Mark from Flanders leaving France for Britain
2 Down: A worker present ultimately during boozy sesh
3 Down: Tree line eventually hides unit attacking at front
4 Down: Silly trick in PE leaves one in critical condition
5 Down: Boy seen around a large Barnet establishment?
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Perhaps young ladies returning diamonds like waste from coal mine?
5 Across: Old-fashioned craft which might help you shape hedges
9 Across: Treacherous type regularly wanting in on correspondence
10 Across: Sober sailors can essentially get any number a little tipsy
11 Across: Old lady's emotional, missing ace showing dominance
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Save seafood that's cold, not hot
2 Down: Taking part in dry run for show
3 Down: Extremely grave old writer cracks systems for calculating lengths
4 Down: Bashful, perhaps, having served up some half-raw dinners
5 Down: Church saint privy to wit - no point complaining about it
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Monday, February 2, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Get up and play cards?
4 Across: Fancy circles marry off stock holder
10 Across: A game is fixed, with an order for more?
11 Across: Less than tight clues back in Indy
12 Across: Set of characters performing in Fawlty Towers primarily
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Grumpy colleague finding it hard to make friends
2 Down: Men on acid lost control
3 Down: Economical extracting business, perhaps?
5 Down: They hang out in the sun: oily, topless, and beginning to sweat
6 Down: Quince's second part's in Hamlet - he's playing patriarch
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Small amount wasted - order less!
10 Across: TV channel once held back final part of Daphne Duck
11 Across: Guards opening exits and access points
12 Across: Public performance by couple out of time throughout and late
13 Across: Yellow aggregate containing clay and hematite primarily
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: University nurses oddly in favour of master's degree remaining the same
2 Down: Sewer in street's an irritating thing?
3 Down: Head lost in despair abandoned hope
4 Down: Arsenal reserves warm up
5 Down: County has address centrally within mall perhaps to let
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Saturday, January 31, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Range Rover's number one - for radio operators this car will be next
9 Across: Head of entertainment, facing a charge, moves forward without fear
10 Across: Quiet male worker is overwhelming when game
11 Across: A sweet thing to find precious metal on doorway
12 Across: Damage for adult in gay magazine
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Old Pope, born in Britain, not in Germany, rejecting tea we hear, also fresh fruit after short holidays
3 Down: Singer may not always be the same when losing voice at the start
4 Down: Union Jack raised by Reform MP after last of migrants will get what is fair
5 Down: For example Dutch PM, after consuming light meal, dismisses that person in education
6 Down: Dry, only letting in a minimum of rain
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Friday, January 30, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Comic role in Shakespeare: slip up dropping one pole
8 Across: Hard time recalling forename of WWI heroine
10 Across: Leave with detective before finale - that's a bit of good fortune
11 Across: Problem involving husband, bar, drunk - it generates conversation
12 Across: Recommend fruity drink when going round a part of Ireland
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Eccentric upset, coming round with letter
2 Down: Zealot contributing to upturn in pureness evidently
3 Down: Soldier and sailor of renown producing magical plant?
4 Down: Big fight, not initially crazy, about artist
5 Down: French cathedral good - go there
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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: We didn't like this Tesla vehicle's storage space
4 Across: First in carvery, order unseasoned beef
10 Across: Explain Italian footballers opening British sandwich shop
11 Across: Melody, not just any note
12 Across: Controversial drug and why one does it?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Faces away from boor on carpet, unconscious
3 Down: 50% of scary conservative district
4 Down: My knickers in a twist seeing this grid's offensive entries?
5 Down: Satisfied with opera in America
6 Down: One blooming bunch, crossworders
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Make six deliveries, and impress greatly
5 Across: Noticed hosts beginning to cook with seasoning
10 Across: Suggested cost of lean rump, finally, with side dish
11 Across: Marks vehicles on style, at first
12 Across: Relative wasting American's money
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Clog dance
2 Down: Bridge player, working at large shop, mostly, wanting kip in coastal resort
3 Down: Pop-up books about United's rival
4 Down: Kick out six in English court
6 Down: Maybe Afghan father shot crook
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Greek's equine haunch photo
5 Across: Injure heel on driver's side
10 Across: Steady hands split bananas in fridge
11 Across: A couple of stitches in your ear, tolerable
12 Across: A kid with feet up, perhaps
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Revolutionary addressing African dictator of little brain
3 Down: Fish like cod don't have tails cut up
4 Down: Worker putting nail through tongue, perhaps nurse keeps confined
6 Down: Sweet Glaswegian's bottom ogled regularly
7 Down: European back from China, say
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Monday, January 26, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Extra work that's from The Sun?
9 Across: Stew over review of "beige" Hamlet?
10 Across: Tired old PM must change direction ...
11 Across: ... line from article penned by bonkers Boris
12 Across: What will gamer do in first-person shooter Inferno?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Male topless, doing spring cleaning
2 Down: OMG! Mike's dropped a clanger
3 Down: Sluggish Raleigh cyclist exhausted on Tour
4 Down: Drink Bash Street kid chucked up
5 Down: Waifs exposed without underwear in burlesque
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Sunday, January 25, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Cake and stiff drink fed to cold animal
5 Across: Oil producer's area of operation? Hour away east
9 Across: Irish city's workers take indirect route?
10 Across: Reasonable to run away
11 Across: Monkey bars cut down, abuse received
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Male rugby player initially doubled in value?
2 Down: Expert breaking suspect exposed bursar's rackets
3 Down: Here we find Basil and Coot asleep occasionally, having retired
4 Down: City suffering torn parts excessively
5 Down: What one lacking drive might need to move forwards?
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Saturday, January 24, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Travel permit American lost ahead of Italian excursion
4 Across: Exploding spout went as fast as possible
9 Across: Defensive structure hawk circles at a distance endlessly
10 Across: Tilt one square, checking finishing touches of cyclic quadrilateral
11 Across: Swans crowding over English island mostly common knowledge?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Is half of North African dish underneath very sticky?
2 Down: Bet someone was burned here
3 Down: Notices Dorothy's dog eats regular bites of foulest fungi
4 Down: Free amusing sheep fellows no longer needed
5 Down: Bet on three racers in TT race and F1 broadcast
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Friday, January 23, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Dear former lover, lost in thought
9 Across: America supplied desert plant
10 Across: University Department involved in colourful college festivity
11 Across: Version of end of scene not in pic, Nolan pic
12 Across: Institute in Lausanne reorganised and put on a 12-month basis
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Officer in work unit in the main not losing heart
2 Down: Revival to appear after switching components
3 Down: Sin that sounds reducible to its core elements?
4 Down: Make smaller vessel to carry small car
5 Down: Save others after overlooking final indication to proceed
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Thursday, January 22, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: See 22
8 Across: Hit Head of Technology with one project to keep peace!
9 Across: To right of Caliban expert conceals opening on stage
10 Across: Typical method by which one exploits agent of pest control
11 Across: Maybe the second row's not written about
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Business worked around inclusions, and yet with diligence
2 Down: With nothing on there might be arrests, ok?
3 Down: Engineer rings to fasten on the wagon
4 Down: A high point, the one of Akela's lads who goes the extra mile?
5 Down: Endure way hatred's taking the usual form
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Anticipate dealing with large wooded area and lake
6 Across: Institute decided after hearing evidence
9 Across: Set up again, as you might on an easel?
10 Across: Disaster as large taxi reverses into river
11 Across: Large flock coming back through pasture see gate
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: PM potentially in distant future?
2 Down: Apple, America decided should support Republican
3 Down: Old cracks reflected heritage part of theatre
4 Down: College offering industrial training in an orange waiting room
5 Down: Boy was first served from tureen
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