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Sunday, June 14, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Uniform in East Germany Wessis regularly wear for parties
9 Across: Weary having consumed jug of wine
10 Across: What's certainly near EU and close to Cherbourg, going west?
11 Across: Most sober people you see set limits
12 Across: Dog rolled over in bed, kind of blue
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Playing against Hearts in tears, club get prize
3 Down: Silver Spirit on drive upset miser
4 Down: Anonymous text appended to edition of Donne
5 Down: 500 traitors shot after revolution as shining example
6 Down: Detective agreed, on the record?
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Cutting lead, White Lotus recast key figure
9 Across: Aussies missing flight found in Science Museum
10 Across: Number Ten backed old Lib Dem's links with PC
11 Across: Republican plugs rigged election claim in post online
14 Across: Strategy that involves destroying terracotta?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Bridget Jones occasionally shows part of her bottom
2 Down: I am having my picture taken before party gets very loud and mad
3 Down: With which you might catch joke that bears fruit?
4 Down: A fool in Congress
5 Down: Setter, say, backed up toilet after wiping away runs
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Friday, June 12, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Piano directly behind you - this type?
5 Across: Remains with company after start of critical week? It's a profitable business
9 Across: Lively dance giving you time in twist with hero
10 Across: Painting evidently involves a touch of colour
11 Across: Blokes getting out of clothing, meeting a dish from India
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Topless beefcake welcoming keen response to get at the drink?
2 Down: Wine bringing hint of shakiness into part of eye
3 Down: Roman poet, half-cut, gambles on hard legendary king
4 Down: Edward supporting name adopted by present family, being sensitive
5 Down: Family disposing of large container
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Film with endless sex due for distribution having received approval
8 Across: Not now an official papal residence? It was once
9 Across: Stop by the side of the road to pick up old females
11 Across: Busy pair going round North, say
12 Across: Heartless theatrical princess keeps dictionary in school
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: French article supports being less variable in style
2 Down: Serious composer imprisoned in Estonia
3 Down: A silly place to grow plants?
4 Down: Bash a drug supplier
5 Down: Italian composer unsettled by Israeli
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Grouse without starter arrived at perfection
3 Across: Assume ten love joining rather ingenious gentleman
10 Across: Dairy product perfect female fed to vampire?
11 Across: Soft, soft metal to make a case
12 Across: Dance function with Grand Ball
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Base installing British machine
2 Down: Spread includes old Spanish wine for ruler
4 Down: Fresh food endlessly cooked in the main
5 Down: Asian nation about to receive cheers
6 Down: Spontaneous Ringoe is ready to meet you
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Real gold in addition to this unfinished check
6 Across: Oddly crumby energy block
8 Across: American recklessly getting business degree in jargon
9 Across: A prayer with wings? Bro, it's poetic
10 Across: Diminished seventh note opens a bass promotion
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Improvise most of alibi about diamonds
2 Down: Satan's team shedding a quiet tear, missing answer
3 Down: Internet regards collie's last wag
4 Down: Tense Truss in conversation on X
5 Down: Fighting company with maiden flyer and soldier
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Monday, June 8, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Building unsecured if I certified locks
5 Across: Falls asleep creating clue for dons?
10 Across: Very regularly catches fever, getting increasingly woozy
11 Across: Blue cycling shoe boxes needed for dance parties
12 Across: Discovered parcel of asparagus seed
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Cavalryman with women's clothing on checks zip
3 Down: Halt progress following corrosion estimate
4 Down: Key rings for climbing can be stiff
6 Down: Tip up open vase
7 Down: Excelled partly through dishonesty
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Sunday, June 7, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Spinning round?
9 Across: Post just arrived left on end of table
11 Across: Model observed fish using ears
12 Across: Clear sporting clue is for guys
13 Across: Charges covering any number of people like Andrew in the past
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Ability to calculate shower pressure in boudoir
2 Down: Gift from fiancé on vacation, the traditional one
3 Down: High ground dropped away
4 Down: Finding book for kids excited Welsh lawyer
5 Down: Mother in stable steps in dirt according to Spooner
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Saturday, June 6, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Leader in Sun, Farage: "Our NHS needs Reform". Such a divisive character!
9 Across: Farewell toast
10 Across: Starts to dream up musical title
11 Across: Crazy upper-class twit discharged in US city
12 Across: 10 had, in essence, acquired a reputation for dishonesty
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Time for another bit to eat?
2 Down: Used keys again and went back in
3 Down: A bit posh or synthetically, affectedly refined in speech
4 Down: Say Oscar first in command, being self-obsessed
5 Down: Accursed rabid hound turns up
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Friday, June 5, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: A top year, with King throttled at an early stage
8 Across: Barbarian suppressing old agreement? Take care
10 Across: Reservation about bad church money
11 Across: Priest, senior religious figure not using Old Testament in scripture lessons
12 Across: Move slowly? That is fine at the top level
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Who might deliver text on court working?
2 Down: Elegant dog trade deal curtailed by UK and Italy
3 Down: US city turning up in South Carolina agreement
4 Down: Friends at school caught on carpet being hugged by girls
5 Down: Comedy series almost left on a high point?
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Thursday, June 4, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Extra bit of fish was unwrapped
3 Across: Bohemian soundly screwed and defeated
10 Across: Laurel spreads in eastern edge of allotment fast
11 Across: Guys without mike sing moving number and start to shake banners
12 Across: Fix Tesla with damaged steel casing
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: TV cop show Lewis has cool content
2 Down: Handsome chap, though exhausted, tried to spread gossip
4 Down: Contraband article used by Pablo Escobar taken from Caesar's Palace?
5 Down: Pill-popping pop star in soldier's canteen, topless, bringing joy
6 Down: Title of film/TV show
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Fancy panties no fun for writers
9 Across: Dumbfounded, put on nursing registration number the wrong way round
10 Across: Dance move following beat
11 Across: Picture of assistant scratching head, worried
12 Across: As I see it, I'm bony, active and very well
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Primarily, Farage acted somewhat callously in school, teacher describing him thus
2 Down: Custom of country imposing tariffs on a whim gets halved
3 Down: Nocturnal idiot, according to Spooner, is completely integrated
4 Down: By law, liquor regularly taken with drug
5 Down: Academic went half-heartedly with buffoon
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Amazing drug, crack? Something telling me to think twice
9 Across: Weed possibly represented danger
10 Across: Inspired by preacher it established rituals
11 Across: Nameless planet with rotation period of another, one of seven
12 Across: Hard to leave pet rodent with mother in city
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Question upsetting Open University strange enough to hold a meeting
2 Down: A couple of things holding up Starmer maybe announcing notable achievement?
3 Down: Engineer creates extremely significant four-dimensional object
4 Down: Case of gangs following party animals
5 Down: Stone Age circles advanced over time
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Monday, June 1, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: He took elitism badly in film
8 Across: Peculiar shaved animal carries fruit basket
9 Across: Recover on island seafood tours
10 Across: Cut regular trousers short, back in Nashville for American Idol
11 Across: Shock old doctor, quietly, during call
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Cooking up Simon's Italian dessert
2 Down: Note creature lacking initial acceleration is smallest
3 Down: Not before time, returning with others
4 Down: Where we see Mike in the grip of drunken revellers?
5 Down: One new baby, ahead of schedule, turned up here?
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Sunday, May 31, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Substitute second one of three Shakespearean sisters
5 Across: Outside in deluge, fellow gets drier in the car
9 Across: Dangerous building's engineers caught by appropriate criminal charge
10 Across: Plenty breaking the law
11 Across: Doctor photos including bottom, prick and leg
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Obvious trail grew blurred
3 Down: Children anxious when putting electronics together
4 Down: Huge museum valued old stuff, bagging millions
5 Down: 500 pies to supply store
6 Down: Our team runs after flash vehicle driven on the pitch?
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