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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Partner secures uncut supply just in time
6 Across: I'm so taken aback by volume of the Universe
9 Across: Embrace ten times after taking the lead
10 Across: Member with gold duck houses is only lasting a short time
11 Across: Number one accepts erring badly will get the bird
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Link to website with pound off new vase
3 Down: Divided 100 by zero
4 Down: In secret, run over code leaving nothing suspect
5 Down: Dormant in insect net, a locust turned up
6 Down: Thoroughly search male nutcases
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Saturday, November 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Why show comedian's bits?
5 Across: Step-by-step, accepted Miss Lipa in good 1D
9 Across: Viking's choice of partners ultimately divisive
10 Across: Kitchen utensil left on counter is life changing - protecting skin on 1D
11 Across: Review of problem with university parking
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: People working - they're on the clock
2 Down: Rucksack emptied into ladies 1D
3 Down: Subdued group of haematologists were proved wrong
4 Down: Top pairs in effortless finish, calmly cycling, showing ability to succeed
5 Down: Try short bit of sorcery to obtain the truth
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Friday, October 31, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: American dullard needing month after school
4 Across: Siamese cat is nasty to spaniel
9 Across: Trick or treats possibly involving silver diadem ultimately
10 Across: Some treat ended having you taken in?
11 Across: Recalled excellent comment about Southern European country
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Group of nuns hide torsos in dressing
2 Down: Baronet coming in here with a healthy drink?
3 Down: Not initially promoting treat?
4 Down: Badly using most of treat in a distinctive style
5 Down: Ready to defend maiden tucking into a wine
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Smell Polish fruit stalls
5 Across: Stripping off, bather felt behind
9 Across: Lots of water escapes, sending energy east
10 Across: Endangered creature's sad lament carried through waves
11 Across: Such entertainment transformed drug-free nightlife
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Hot drink gets you right as rain
2 Down: Heading to important piece checked by master and pro
3 Down: Despot's muscles ultimately undo plucky individual
4 Down: Finds fault with first outings after replacing Tesla with Golf
5 Down: Faithless behaviour from mad cult very lacking in leadership
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Ill-treatment is stopping contemplation
4 Across: America abandons teaching evolution
10 Across: Run down director to transfer country mansion at last, for millions
11 Across: Nonsense, absolute nonsense about everything
12 Across: Think carefully: are carbon sinks complex?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Dicky married to cross woman who is in charge
2 Down: Prickly character really lovely, mostly
3 Down: Italian man pays no attention to raising son
5 Down: American fool's date number one with bishop
6 Down: Four Swedes in prison, sharing a vegetable
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Old novel certainly not returned
8 Across: Dog brought over eccentric's glasses
10 Across: Funny shorts for fellow radio presenter are wrong style, essentially
12 Across: Musicians such as 10 switched section of Cloudy
13 Across: One hears special 12A, half of it Art
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Someone playing Bridge Over Troubled Water interrupted by loud app?
2 Down: Marines in trench coming up given a wave
3 Down: Make Art in Rose of Aberdeen perhaps whoop it up
4 Down: Fibrous structure of super grains releasing energy
5 Down: Suspect my lady of damage caused by rubbing around The Boxer
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Monday, October 27, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Impressed women in the main when reversing vehicle
6 Across: Religious teaching bishop found on carbon copy
8 Across: Infernal odour permeates laid-back island clubs
9 Across: Clothing line?
10 Across: Spike Lee endlessly hounds politician in Iowa
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Saying nothing after team splits before noon
2 Down: Married couple overwhelmed by European welcome
3 Down: Spanish accent brightened up hollow discourse
4 Down: Weird, upper-class childminder steals redcoat's heart
5 Down: Provide stimulus to quit celebrity contest's final
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Bar in old city, one with a cathedral, charmingly
9 Across: Fear any injury except for left hand
10 Across: Land on time just the same
11 Across: Island people taking mostly healthy breath
12 Across: One's bored by wait in the same place
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Inexperienced sailor shown moving back to front, possibly pulled
2 Down: Win point with superior attention
3 Down: Half-way through Spielberg film keeping you up, cause of 25?
4 Down: Orbit I complete when told
5 Down: American tracks rising lawyer, or 'user of puzzle's perimeter'
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Italian musician at last eating a filling local sandwich (or two?)
9 Across: Daily Star
10 Across: Palestinians backed by Oxbridge academic make very slow progress
11 Across: French tennis icon heading for Channel island in lifeboat?
12 Across: Parcel company, mostly growing in reputation, causes a revolution
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: One captured by the enemy about to invite everyone in for a beer
2 Down: Ultimately, Gabriel with Collins, for the listener a load of rubbish
3 Down: Wagner opera: nul points in Paris, almost the same in New York
4 Down: 1978 film generates clue for g, say
5 Down: Piccolo is one overwhelmed by far too much wine, commonly
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Friday, October 24, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Precisely determine security code and give directions
9 Across: Start and end of time in pub - time having particular purpose
10 Across: Wavering, hesitant, us? I'll plunge straight in
11 Across: A Southern Italian recalled Italian town
12 Across: Suppress steps to restrain France
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Singer's tense after news in story
2 Down: Large fish starts to occupy Pacific after hurricane
3 Down: Scientist's way in blocking Schrödinger's articles
4 Down: Formerly bombards river in Staffordshire
5 Down: Move quietly and tilt from West?
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Senseless how burlesque ends
10 Across: Explosive material about creativity sincere
11 Across: Crouchback for one thrown in road by king
12 Across: Mischievous duo taking female out for drive
13 Across: Look after book for Welsh entertainer
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: See 15 Across
2 Down: See 15 Across
3 Down: Letters from Brother Aldhelm deceived goddess
4 Down: Online space strange to M Roach
5 Down: Something tiny Romeo wore outside
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Bad actor with a job runs away in Berkshire town
6 Across: Sit, or run, or do neither?
9 Across: A bitter crook's ceremonial hat
10 Across: Most loved director committed to cast Johansson at last
11 Across: Surprisingly anal about temperature of buttocks
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: We sacrifice a rook in online broadcast
2 Down: Cocktail in Scottish church unfinished
3 Down: Settle on unfolding folded cards
4 Down: Chinese flower displayed around centre of Doncaster
5 Down: Umpire taking time; a deep thinker
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:6 Across: Horny blighter really enjoyed being turned over
7 Across: Somewhat quiet last section of Miles's Kind of Blue
9 Across: Picking up gun, rich sap gets the shakes
10 Across: Award Jesus stuck on Hoskins after a change of ways
11 Across: A soft and thick congealed lump of dope
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Winger is a state, missing one shot ultimately
2 Down: Palace player prone to histrionics a large supporter grabs
3 Down: When to have rumpy-pumpy? After serving up wine!
4 Down: Man and his best friend touring uni by a lake
5 Down: Sentence given to a grasping English type like Jeffrey Archer
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Monday, October 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Flipping secretary kept quiet about pest in bed
4 Across: Limits reasons why calls cannot be made
9 Across: One teacher taken aback by child introducing the French philosopher
10 Across: Bookie at last contributing to TV presenter's bets
11 Across: Is setter nuts about first wave?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Papers supporting articles covering equality and system suppressing it
2 Down: Report of triumph at altitude in lines from the East
3 Down: Take away tips from Dante passage
4 Down: Explained how follower is restricted by Act
5 Down: Exact retribution on German hiding uniform during course of action
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Sunday, October 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Help Conservative to hide billions, moving account
5 Across: Departure for one on ship
10 Across: Remote location for one affected their game
11 Across: Oddball dismissed seconds from predicted retirement
12 Across: Carol never felt unlimited
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Species, cross including head of human and every other bit of lion
2 Down: Local worker saving money
3 Down: Stick the rug down in Ilkley?
4 Down: Try a lie to distort truth
6 Down: Complain again, hearing that firing range after August 12th?
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