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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Call with a wave when bird grabs arm
5 Across: Fermented stuff some neck – I'm chicken
9 Across: Deduce better with the head tucked in
10 Across: Sweet MP frolicking with one lord
12 Across: Duck to be part of meze platter
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Wrap commonly thrust item
2 Down: Lidl's opening provided swell launch
3 Down: Courage left and right from Dani mid-tackle
4 Down: Most flattering untruths in love/intimacy
6 Down: Regularly considered fit? Find out otherwise
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Monday, March 16, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Drank heavily back in warehouse
4 Across: Skins from litchi desserts
7 Across: Gatsby maybe has love for American happiness
9 Across: Prospect first seen in Virginia
10 Across: Talk about Indian vegetable
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Detective's dream department
2 Down: Change part of play in religious festival
3 Down: Reportedly followed theological issue?
4 Down: War criminal cuddles East German hospitality worker
5 Down: Like Italian gangster's choice of camera?
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Sunday, March 15, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Who's in pub besetting teetotal European?
4 Across: Corks regularly seen around Fitzgerald's booze-filled rooms?
9 Across: Massive fan of sci-fi endorsing Banks
10 Across: Be attracted to eccentric with a will
11 Across: John Cleese's latest two characters complete special BBC radio show
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Incoherent talk from a loud female on feeding baby cut short
2 Down: Tool REM deployed for musical effect
3 Down: Dust devils? Large maybe, then small
4 Down: Patisserie items are wrapped in piece of cling film
5 Down: Rugby player huffs over tight formation
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Saturday, March 14, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Controversial Lady Mone - risk it spirals out of control
8 Across: Barnsley lad visiting County Kerry
10 Across: Outline paper cut, trimmed at the edges
11 Across: Top lawyer Starmer touring area where 6 happened in December
12 Across: Trump's commerce secretary distributed cult handiwork
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Comfy racists busily assuming power? Some would say that's the MAGA way
2 Down: Starts to take seriously appalling Russian despot
4 Down: Marvellous pics I developed showing 7 and 11 perhaps?
5 Down: Religious teacher Knut's giving mum a cuddle
6 Down: Army detachment uncovered large towns' wicked deeds
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Friday, March 13, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Cat very much recalled when hosting piece of animation
5 Across: Location of historic US economic crisis? Remains bad, initially horribly low
9 Across: Stuff in bin appears wet, filthy
10 Across: Least likely to persist
11 Across: Poulenc's variation - ultimate in exquisite richness
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Secure line during party
3 Down: Piggy, drunk, top off bottle, rolling around on floor of lounge?
4 Down: Office work - binding, including third of reports
5 Down: US flat tax? Need Trump plan curtailed, amended
6 Down: Go to court about source of rotten discharge, guaranteed success
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Thursday, March 12, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Clean line in the sand
5 Across: Picture parents embracing and not beginning to argue
9 Across: They save cooking with some beef
10 Across: Dispose of Tesla, perhaps charging without joy
11 Across: Bowler missing leg after Tufnell, say, plays the field
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: General caught with howitzer at first, being out for blood
3 Down: One gets hammered in Bavarian village
4 Down: Praise query about Tolstoy character needing no introduction
5 Down: Fail at cycle path, struggling to find technique in howling wind?
6 Down: They're not in the habit of going out
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Everyone is taken aback, missing one left in Spanish city
5 Across: Does Henry call for topic on Bluesky?
9 Across: Fashionable movement prohibited, reportedly, with past close to forgotten
10 Across: Opening passage part of fortnightly retrospective
11 Across: Setter's mature public front
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Cry and join up? Amen
2 Down: Periodically, Kuwait University providing support for vehicle in a state
3 Down: Sales now poor; nothing taken?
4 Down: Troubled trading ends badly
5 Down: Chinese repeated words without restriction
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Live Stone The Crows love song from the 60s
5 Across: IBM Melbourne could produce figures contact needs
10 Across: Method of communicating with satellite is cool
11 Across: Significant pair of musical works, back-to-back with common ending
12 Across: Earl breaks upper leg cycling some distance up
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Tease about threat to career in demographic data
2 Down: Professional work at the end of term?
3 Down: Stall the pair patrolling entrance to Olympia
4 Down: Abuse King or 2 Kings?
6 Down: Distant relative phoned during off-campus university function
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:5 Across: Kids' TV programme or colourful Sky show?
7 Across: Organ found in human's thorax primarily
9 Across: Liberal must get drug after I'd run out of gear
10 Across: Nimrod perhaps isn't game to mess about with it
11 Across: Savage getting hold of final girl by her hair?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Awful bother with rain for one out during colder months?
2 Down: Utterly wretched aim to make love close to aga
3 Down: Those which get loaded in judicial assembly rooms
4 Down: Bridge player in Bristol affected by Brexit split
5 Down: One who's up about doctor holding one up
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Sunday, March 8, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pharma giant getting into development of magical pesticide, perhaps
9 Across: Screen that opens in silence, say
10 Across: Coach breaks work schedule for coffee
11 Across: Underline M representing magnitude in report
12 Across: What leads Veronica into temptation? Affection, ironically
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Bellyache from drinking rum punch
3 Down: Exclude East German breed taking lead in Crufts?
4 Down: Someone who has quit company misusing HR time
5 Down: Gunman maybe spinning barrel before start of roulette
6 Down: Intriguing group from California set up research establishment
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Saturday, March 7, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Group of artists in a cryptic crossword?
7 Across: Setter's leg-over?
9 Across: Distinctive characters about to abandon race with gold
10 Across: Unabating insect swarms surrounding hospital
11 Across: Scarcity of baked beans since Jesus was born
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Doctor with a degree in theatre studies?
2 Down: Taking terrible risk, 20 devoid of top and other clothing
3 Down: Strictest designation after Hemingway enters the canon?
4 Down: Struggling artist offloading two Teslas with electronic hoist
5 Down: Opening feature?
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Friday, March 6, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:6 Across: Accident sees pulpy material put in drink
8 Across: Steer around iodine and uranium for another element
9 Across: Plain card containing new authorisation
10 Across: Liberal, in regret, meeting Republican leader
12 Across: Old King Henry: a row recalled in pub
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Villain overturned brasserie, cracking open whisky with soldiers
2 Down: Guide son meeting that woman with father
3 Down: Menace from husband interrupting pleasant event
4 Down: Conservative line taken by Poor Clare about one of the ministry?
5 Down: Unimaginative European leaving dispute with Luxembourg
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Thursday, March 5, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Politicians in London broadcast across German city
5 Across: Money taken from country club certainly not brought back
9 Across: Cabinet fought over housing many times
10 Across: Years after one who might be Educating Rita's lead features in Betrayal
11 Across: Artist occupying lodgings following old lady runs carnival
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Ring woman in Paris entertained by filth
2 Down: Cruelly fed tramp a choking hazard
3 Down: Greens periodically supported by two brilliant people
4 Down: Washington police finally arresting target involved in scandal
5 Down: Once river has risen, catches flightless birds
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Number one more than ten: 11
4 Across: 11's special flower
8 Across: Audibly welcome Mr Kelly's sanitary practices
9 Across: Legions' fermented spirit
10 Across: Dictaphone consumables PA used recklessly – tiny bit stuck inside
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: See 12A
2 Down: Snobbery in English literature is minimal at first
3 Down: Card game score for Pierre – 11
5 Down: Fur rugs and throws
6 Down: Left American baseball team maybe, 11, following one to Orleans
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Doubting it with number reversed in account
6 Across: See 23
9 Across: Singer to tempt Ham's boy, as Spooner says
10 Across: Still around at hospital, melon variety causing illness
11 Across: Motorway madness an illusion?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Cool flower excited Gaelic Romeo
3 Down: Greek character old and enormous
4 Down: Slept so badly without so much as a bra?
7 Down: Beer wasted in population leaving London?
8 Down: Time locks securing home: into this one might vanish
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