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Sunday, December 7, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Teacher made knots in his hair
9 Across: Practising lawyers troubling to Morse
10 Across: Bad mushroom trip's beginning in a frenzy
11 Across: Vet again checks animal that's caught cold
12 Across: Cheap fizz from Majestic brought round
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Meaningful picture from reading out Mog's letters
3 Down: Tear up unfashionable husband's old cotton belt?
4 Down: Faces court released to the public
5 Down: Grip case with empty travelator ahead
6 Down: Message from girl I am excited about
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Saturday, December 6, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Alexander O'Neal's beginning to wear mask?
9 Across: Florida holidaymakers going around another part of America
10 Across: Cutting One Hundred and One Dalmatians' opening
11 Across: Go and act the fool
12 Across: Bring round a new rake ordered in error
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Charlie? Charlie!
2 Down: Calm and relaxation preceding spat?
3 Down: Errors made by young woman full of drink
4 Down: Fete with loud atmosphere
5 Down: Comfort one with beer
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Brief Kipling novel carried by Observer
4 Across: Man's man is connecting with a punch
10 Across: Stress not entirely shown by good junior worker
11 Across: The way to embrace no good dance
12 Across: Everyone will participate in rotten song
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Ignore American bum getting upset
2 Down: In communications, I omitted article from US state
3 Down: Old man with failing clarity is very drunk
5 Down: Jazz piece (American) put up before exclusive item from The Nutcracker?
6 Down: Prank not in support of clubs
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Healthy American eating a Japanese dish
4 Across: Beginning to justify mate's untidy stuff getting washed up
9 Across: Work out half of 4? Not quite
10 Across: Established champion claims northern origin
11 Across: Fruit characterised by overly dull jams
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Over the top of muesli, mostly nuts
2 Down: Trip one's taken to the south exposing dictatorship
3 Down: Mistake on documents masks hospital's condition
5 Down: Refer to Skinny being upset? It makes you sick!
6 Down: Out of form son unlucky to take English
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Will Self regularly rebuffed commendations and words from well-wishers
8 Across: Some unpopular opinions about certain type of vaccine
9 Across: Continued amassing money, or surrendered?
10 Across: Messily eat a Gü dessert, perhaps
11 Across: Picture of noodle soup meeting size guidelines?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A good way to attempt to hide a right flipping mess
2 Down: French city not very well encapsulated in an article there
3 Down: About to wake up and drink
4 Down: What you may need to get through to another person?
5 Down: Not just any flash British gangsters
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Perhaps China contracted large plant
5 Across: Seizing power, icon goes berserk with gun
9 Across: Fairground Attraction sing in American English? Au contraire!
10 Across: Silence irritable reggae musician
11 Across: Rival school senior journalist has primarily touted for daughter
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Muse drummer at opera houses
3 Down: Stumped, ring representative and show annoyance
4 Down: Country's old hotels refurbished
5 Down: Arranged mountain climbing to accommodate the author's exercise regime
6 Down: Loose sex in France?
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Monday, December 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Foxy young thing is model for painter
4 Across: Foreshadowed detailed papers with article, say, about Germany
9 Across: A sound, spoken declaration
10 Across: Steadfast initiate defends barbaric law
12 Across: Air-conditioning in car starts to tickle your cheek
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: In such a patisserie you'll find bread
2 Down: Bad actors ruined show
3 Down: Seize heroin containers heading north across Thailand
5 Down: Author laid bare religious practice
6 Down: Set of grotesque idols guarding island extremely ferociously
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Giving lecture, do numbers that prime divides
6 Across: Get ready for a night out?
9 Across: Mathematician's prompt returning cap
10 Across: Mother returned by 1 without thinking what might be wrong
11 Across: Several quick strokes of the lash as foreplay?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Very desirable bachelor perfectly erect
3 Down: Every guy in first set of books back for novelist's growing plot
4 Down: Islands that are East or West, mostly free from big business
5 Down: Wild fruit tree in western state present to the north
6 Down: Living arrangement snug during English spring
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Saturday, November 29, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:6 Across: Alan resolved to maintain a bit of defiance - a court winner
7 Across: Group (as a whole) about to get ill-gotten gains
10 Across: Mostly stolen, deficit's original solution for the most senior
11 Across: One in supreme role's worse reportedly - a monster
12 Across: PO 'crime' clear to a lunatic
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Look, RAC's fixed holes in boat!
2 Down: Buddhist temple accommodating land animal that's considered semi-aquatic
3 Down: Dog and what it may do without a lead possibly?
4 Down: Covering up not criminal case? Having more to say
5 Down: Line up on left coming back, he cries
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Friday, November 28, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: French painter indicated by easel, colour and tutu, possibly
9 Across: Good women avoiding industrial action in European city
10 Across: Wit and wine - a feature of the table?
11 Across: Monks initially ready to tuck into a lot of tea subsequently
12 Across: A lot of aid heading for Italy or place there …
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Old policeman's inclination to take attractive person hugging gnarled tree, right?
2 Down: American writer a good deal tense about chapter
3 Down: Better periods after skipping British tour
4 Down: Good friends to dine - ten, possibly? Planning for the best
5 Down: American science probing nothing - it's just a front
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: German sex dwarf
4 Across: Argued after back massage delved deep
9 Across: Edit left-wing piece of legislation?
10 Across: Make quick note about small fish competing for attention?
12 Across: Cockney's announced One Direction singer will make roofing material
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: After reflecting, say a card game is rubbish
2 Down: Subordinate's booty shaking place
3 Down: Pressure on wonderful compiler to be front-runner
5 Down: Use envelopes surprisingly prepared in advance
6 Down: German going topless in luxury hotel
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Church following lay ministers' latest rebellion
4 Across: Outrages from journalists and friends
9 Across: Rotating team working for inventor
10 Across: Turn away from new harbour at Scottish port
12 Across: Business with two thousand and one people living together
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Stab knight, potentially saving king
2 Down: One cuts short journey by a short distance on returning
3 Down: Flirt with head of restaurant to get inside for something fried
5 Down: A case of raspberry drink
6 Down: Vessel stowed in Formosa (or Taiwan)
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: US sex worker gets with Hoskins in a cottage?
4 Across: Roofer or hairdresser, might some people say
9 Across: Religious type spread right pish about ecstasy
10 Across: Ancient German quarry excavating phosphorus
11 Across: Go to get Liverpool's latest strip
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Oscar rejected wicked name for a baby girl?
3 Down: After getting on beers, old husband expires
4 Down: Earl has intercourse upside-down in restraint
5 Down: Paintings by The Spanish Cooperative in the USSR
6 Down: Cautious on turning right into group of a load of chickens?
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Monday, November 24, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Partly abstaining, bit of alcohol knocked back with some frequency
5 Across: See filmmakers fight anti-intellectual
9 Across: Continue to probe a journalist under the table
10 Across: Played together to express annoyance at tagger retreating
11 Across: Provoke Gregorian at the outset with year missing from their calendar?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Broken chord spoilt opera gig
2 Down: Leaves can stop train early with total closure to railway
3 Down: Tale of god and outline of truth?
4 Down: Computer program checks background of a rejected priest
5 Down: Liberal to ask for proof of age providing protection for viewer
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Monsieur enters to have a little soup
6 Across: Really enjoy Alien in which ship's beginning to dissolve with acid
9 Across: Trying venue where race might be held that accommodates 1,000
10 Across: Anorak's over fleece
11 Across: Wii boxing in back of tavern in Thailand, drunken comedy
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Bit of wind taking the wings off two Boeings
3 Down: Son worked on boat up the creek
4 Down: Rug on top for Spooner? Surely not
5 Down: Shortened horsy draught animal's 12 hour day
6 Down: Scoffing expert finally said "That is an old master"
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