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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Badenoch waits to form this
10 Across: Cable, inspired by Davey, perhaps did show
11 Across: Half of army once more retreats and falls
12 Across: In a cryptic crossword, gets hints
13 Across: Group of countries raced, having dropped like flies?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: The rain flustered lock keeper
3 Down: Shrinks like breaking laws
4 Down: Auditor's considered move offshore?
5 Down: An awfully nice aunt, say
6 Down: I almost directed TV show from Asian country
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Friday, February 21, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Left us blocked by our CID, bumbling, absurd
6 Across: Anger about book, an authoritative text
9 Across: Unprofitable bottling bit of vodka, on reflection, producing depression
10 Across: Skyscraper maintenance issues? Jerks may apply elsewhere
11 Across: Not entirely remarkable English story
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Nautical (at sea) skipping an area that's crazy
2 Down: Dust storm was rising
3 Down: Line brought in fish from the Arctic?
4 Down: Charmingly fogyish over argument turning up between Lords
5 Down: Companion consumed, swallowed by pig
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:4 Across: Rat chewed part way through Hobnob producing mould
6 Across: Maverick fellow, no?
9 Across: Smack person sticking his oar in
10 Across: Reading's boss on the way out, their director shared
11 Across: Ben blocks busy bus lane - shocking!
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Jam and cream going on last bits of traditional scone
2 Down: Miss Gardner supporting British actors performing in Spanish location
3 Down: Slice bloomer loaf after brown bread
4 Down: Fly low around edge of Sahara Desert
5 Down: Trying Morse code finally, struggling with it
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Power grab by the French pair
4 Across: Reserve fashion house for pigs
9 Across: A grotesque hole employs locals
10 Across: A trap traps American for a second time
11 Across: Honey bee loses head in fight
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Python found in Gents
2 Down: Yorkshire river with a smell, ultimately, of waste product
3 Down: Go into panic about old rugby player
4 Down: Young woman working around international embassy
5 Down: Shot a story on film?
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pretty dated, like comedians Benny and Harry?
9 Across: Tesla with smart technology starts to go astray in forest
10 Across: Hardy pine rebuffed infernal thing
11 Across: Stimulating discontented nation, ad in Indy ushered in next age of Methuselah
16 Across: Goats and sheep regularly knocked back green stuff for dinner
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Staggered like hedonist getting drunk
2 Down: Hunter – one that's charged after soldiers
3 Down: The lady demolished extra pasty
4 Down: Initially sharp nail filed down here?
5 Down: Those most in need of bread depended on priests, essentially
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Monday, February 17, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Certain varieties of grass will reportedly cause bewilderment
6 Across: Fatuous paper written by attorney
8 Across: Area behind factory occupied by church organ
9 Across: Sucker turned to Russia's foremost spiritual adviser
10 Across: Serious lesion checked by doctor
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish city banishes a character in popular tale
2 Down: Gruesome sailor runs into club
3 Down: Old relative losing large amount of weight
4 Down: Intense, mad look regularly adopted by Olympian
5 Down: Former favourite welcoming study about setter's stratagem
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pilot has relocated, getting better place
5 Across: Son turning Dutchman out of yard - he's untidy
10 Across: Act like a woman whose little hand is frozen with cold
11 Across: Wrong choice crucial in rough game with sticks and blades
12 Across: Forbidding university jargon fills tedious course
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Joker 50% down in hustings, pollsters admitted
2 Down: Not one large citrus fruit turned white
3 Down: Antique coins Len traded worth nothing
4 Down: Friend's gone across motorway
6 Down: Statistician's compared angry Irish band member with happy
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: One Greek character looks after money for those in a swing state
8 Across: Warriors from South Africa repelled in a battle
9 Across: Jewish mystics head for home as it's beginning to get dark
11 Across: RC group formed by pseudo intellectuals originally
12 Across: Two men going back and forth to see prize-winning novelist
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Poor dame with IOU asked for milk?
2 Down: Emulate Bing when crossing yard in London borough
3 Down: Indiana Jones finally worked the land and sowed the seeds
4 Down: A small chicken pasty
5 Down: Kiss off Diana's girl
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Friday, February 14, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Millions invested in circuit illumination
3 Across: US magazine circulation about constant for periods
9 Across: Spy tied up heartlessly
10 Across: ‘Radical men' misrepresenting description of many councils
12 Across: Mistimed run for start of spring? It's ludicrous
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Suitable for retraining, not following left-wingers
2 Down: Timid character circling a point where temperature's dropped in large building
4 Down: Small area of land in flames, destroyed, with nothing retained
5 Down: Some article demarcated American affliction
6 Down: Policeman curtailed case in error, trying to please
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: In shock, this individual looks very pale
6 Across: One up for getting picked up by a stranger?
9 Across: A flipping angry soldier fixed in purpose
10 Across: One on the line with right trouble about royal
11 Across: Scottish gals pinching large bums in America
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Woman's name seen in Catalan addresses
2 Down: Advance warning: principal's on drink
3 Down: Lender studio's last used in Network and Jaws?
4 Down: Having hardly anything on or pretty pants?
5 Down: Be afraid of losing female attention
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Fleet is stuck
3 Across: Secure cash in Boston to conserve church decoration
10 Across: Fish in jelly, 25% off
11 Across: That is found in side streets
12 Across: Planet scenes with Earth deleted
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Worked out to inspire man, a leader, nominally
2 Down: Quietly called nationalist out for expressive gesture
4 Down: I clean revolting Dutch supermarket
5 Down: American leaving waste around old city
6 Down: Own new port
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: 1D/30 covered my flight and one limo stateside
4 Across: Like much ground hamburger, principally kosher
9 Across: Bunch of old-fashioned geezers apt to lose it
10 Across: Where good may be found in the darkest hour?
11 Across: Skyscraper could be feet lower if reworked
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Press gets mean over rockers from Leyton
2 Down: Cards or flyers
3 Down: Peacekeepers gauge units oddly delivered ointment
5 Down: A culture paper covering independent cartoons
6 Down: Light bag stashed in string instrument
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Monday, February 10, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Metaphors describing united groups of performers
5 Across: No charge for this beefier criminal
9 Across: Mature swan from NE USA?
10 Across: Releases new version of "Dubliners"
11 Across: Flexible base has mostly synthetic contents
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: In truth, rivers develop and grow
2 Down: Convenient work left unfinished song
3 Down: Dad spelled out character of WWF
4 Down: Madness song appears heartless after author stands up
5 Down: Story about courage
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Sunday, February 9, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Get cold feet crossing lake in total darkness
6 Across: Likelihood Charlie Chan switched back from Chinese?
9 Across: Stop barking to wiry Alsatian
10 Across: Hilarity seeing Strauss's name on his pants today, inside out
11 Across: A sort of tripe provided stimulation for diner
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Don't disturb new yeast, say
3 Down: Group of weirdos one's holding at court
4 Down: Egg supplier to diversify, starting with duck
5 Down: Opera the Parisian makes smaller but with similar parts
6 Down: Evita, say, Argentinian revolutionary guards escort
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Get shot of jet in light shower?
5 Across: Place with bother about new concern
9 Across: Unknown cube in German vessel
10 Across: Good end - but not start - for sprout
11 Across: Water feature essential to partner Trevi, Rome in return
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Appliance for turning bagel into bread
2 Down: Play area with several balls for rally
3 Down: Hairy fruit is cut ahead of the date?
4 Down: Solver's drinking G&T in a dish
5 Down: Swim away from chance for peace
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