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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Bower is covering earl in shade
5 Across: Safe area for city's peculiar dialect
9 Across: Engineering vehicle's original handle for George Eliot
10 Across: Ethnic region mostly Turkish - and fractured
11 Across: Clubs bats?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Queen from the south supporting what Catullus wrote for sex capital
2 Down: Most of fruit you reportedly bake in the sun for ape
3 Down: Place inside popular painted flats?
4 Down: Appropriate children disagree
5 Down: Hint to capture rook against deviating line
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Monday, December 9, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: One in gym daily beginning to track performance stats?
6 Across: Firm underwear - it can hurt you badly
10 Across: Less affable Independent setter for a change
11 Across: Hiding at home reflects signs of negativity
12 Across: Signal to live a life of crime?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Abominable sins at lake lodges
3 Down: Mostly opted to hem trendy trousers
4 Down: Open or unopened milk container?
5 Down: Stray tomcat receiving a grand welcome - this pet needs care
6 Down: Tolerates professor piercing cells in retina
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Someone very good before Haaland?
6 Across: Deny responsibility for noise masking broadcast
9 Across: Danish care about litter
10 Across: Notice American's ancestor in the church
11 Across: Parent given further information after signing off child's illness
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Hot emission in her MOT failing
3 Down: Concrete last of farm's land
4 Down: 24-hour tailor's opening after senior royal drops braces outside
5 Down: Relative at Christmas skimmed a bit of gravy, perhaps
6 Down: 'Sport' finally timetabled with music, drama, etc
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Game birds
8 Across: Speed, beginning to pass point of no return
9 Across: Roll joint, getting one blown away
10 Across: I hate this way south for hikes
11 Across: King Lear's mad, holding heartless test to reveal snakes
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spinner's round pitch, backing up
2 Down: Eats cold cuts
3 Down: Ta-da! All the information's here
4 Down: No matter what half of all comedies raised, normal show is next
5 Down: On reflection, love story ending in wedding is sweet
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Friday, December 6, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: See 12
11 Across: State brief time at sea not bad
12 Across: Mad King George some must admit
13 Across: Kangaroo eating large crusty loaf
15 Across: Something genuine in the round?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: First to span river in Dodge
2 Down: Sea Denizen can perform on track
3 Down: They say your writer will land in water
4 Down: Branch Indy news supremo protected
5 Down: Two females in AA with Irish pigeon
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:6 Across: Illustration features, mainly, type of skin disease
7 Across: Pile on to player
9 Across: Group must accept it's wrong - send rude message ...
10 Across: ... after we slyly condemned those challenging government (not right)
11 Across: Fresher's explanation ultimately ignored but it does hold water
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Discussed venue for those after 7D - "Nonsensical!" said Labour
2 Down: Moon to make an attempt at seduction? That's not unknown!
3 Down: Half of the clergy in NW town
4 Down: Polite young man, Kylie stressed
5 Down: Rector streaked outside? Was curious to know more
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Speak in public close to hellish ancient river
6 Across: Short note about letter for communicating
8 Across: Also, I reproduced Dutch shed as a cartoon
9 Across: Quite right, dad, France lost
10 Across: Winged creature very lost in Western Norway
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Polish bottom of tray, love
2 Down: Flickering light initially surrounding island disappears
3 Down: Odd characters in fourth century shared bit of tittle-tattle in bed
4 Down: Ruddy large number to correct
5 Down: Rush, record-breaking British goalscorer, picked up in storm
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: One day participating in contests brought back attachment to motorcycle
5 Across: Vegetable item, well-worn stuff served with some bread
9 Across: Eastern board-game producing self-esteem
10 Across: Not fully ready to enter the fog, being in the wrong role
11 Across: American subject receiving British honour from Scottish king
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Understanding type is match for a breakdown
2 Down: Works at suppressing love, leading to insignificant future
3 Down: Stuff muscle pain? Not entirely
4 Down: Head off worry and anger - give up work
5 Down: Miners beginning to measure up in their output, having everything shared
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Monday, December 2, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: In charge of manifest, briefly
4 Across: Time to question staff about flipping tough boss
9 Across: ‘Banks of tomorrow' impress Treasury? Not true
10 Across: High-speed hand-walking contest is a very dangerous competition
11 Across: Dependent on drugs, did cadet collapse?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Swear there's nothing in car
3 Down: He stepped down as 25 turned up - ciao!
4 Down: Take a chance, or rather don't when clothes shopping
5 Down: Ollie's partner almost finished composing rude song “stay firm”
6 Down: Autobiographical book from Bard in English and French: Raconteurs en vacance?
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Sunday, December 1, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Italian butterflies passenger catches drop dead
6 Across: Function on back street expected award for successful party
9 Across: Maiden using her mouth in a virtuous way
10 Across: Brown most of duck, turning that in pot
11 Across: What was the point of Nelson's greatest triumph?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Fitting a large person in the front row, so getting up
3 Down: Dividing piece of fish, allow fighter no steak
4 Down: Reveal unqualified lawyers bet on losing case
5 Down: Remove surplus empty chest
6 Down: A vessel for storing and one for piping oil?
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Saturday, November 30, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Inadequate display after online address is replaced by computer department
4 Across: Strong wine keeping group of women permanently connected
9 Across: Wakeboard shattered but not on account of dangerous surfing location?
10 Across: Delicacy from chef in Essex
11 Across: New Year without a whiskey
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Itinerant read 12 in police custody
2 Down: Able to carry gold and iron – fine
3 Down: See 22 Across
4 Down: Husband requiring a little practice
5 Down: Whistle-blower inconclusive on promise not to reveal votes
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Friday, November 29, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Bold, vigorous and exuberant old queen coming in naked
9 Across: Uncouth, mostly noisy? This should be corrected
10 Across: Significant article in Bild to follow about the other material?
11 Across: Succeed in recalling number in European employment
12 Across: Nothing stupid about university's reproach
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Pressing awkwardly about sign of hesitation produces ill-temper
2 Down: Question penned by schoolmaster, perhaps: mark making you look embarrassed
3 Down: First turn finds something impeding progress?
4 Down: Part of plant left among trees after spades stolen
5 Down: Contemplative believer to leave after touring uphill location
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:6 Across: Country aunt made a mess of Five Gold Rings
7 Across: Self-evident truth of unlimited cabs back to my place?
9 Across: Rose Royce's finale that turns into Car Wash?
10 Across: Twinning of Staffs uni town with Channel port collapsed
11 Across: Asked old singers to bolster finale
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Island nurse, 18, suffering a loss of confidence
2 Down: One going round selling white fish wife caught on river
3 Down: Real star or obscure character?
4 Down: Support carbon-free first-rate synthetic resin
5 Down: Golf club needing new payments system
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Spirit derived from husks of grain extremely dodgy
4 Across: Miles dumped by especially wealthy bird
9 Across: Paul's second letter to the Corinthians dispatched, including message without content for fun
10 Across: Party with a drug cheat
11 Across: Many deliveries of blankets banishing cold
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Confirm fight is receiving attention
2 Down: America stops its former president getting insults
3 Down: Those responsible for Liz Truss's failure (according to Liz Truss) hurtle around museum
4 Down: Old Conservative to be tearful, essentially, for a month
5 Down: Beating up inspiring director in old house
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Vaulting judge controlling contest in heartless fashion
5 Across: Spreads offered by boring building society, say
9 Across: It could bePenn and Teller's cut short?
10 Across: Fish with reason to change, changes
12 Across: One cutting Ancient Egyptian exam class
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Biased article appearing in Paris Match
3 Down: One's attached to horse
4 Down: Lexicon or dictionary? It's more than enough for Scandinavian
6 Down: Museum moving diamonds, admitting number yet to be counted
7 Down: Increasingly dry river being crossed by this stage
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