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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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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Some parts read in a play about people in a play
6 Across: Part of sailing ship in which to store dry booty
9 Across: Two qualities linked by special criterion
10 Across: Gloomy American writer with little time for his job
11 Across: Horse wouldn't initially be backed into trap
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Journey north from Mexican river presumably without restraint
3 Down: Attractive Amazonian women chasing short man about
4 Down: Develop better detailed limits to designs here
5 Down: Duck and orange starter served in upturned bowls
6 Down: Superficial problem of Belgian region (Belgium not France)
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Friday, November 21, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Finish hosting mass dance
4 Across: Ancient President continues to mock, interrupted by a couple of fellows
9 Across: Scoundrels seizing a popular firm making protective clothing
10 Across: Accept new tenant – show kindness, forgetting name
11 Across: Inventor backed team, never taking a different direction
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Increasingly guaranteed to suppress tear in cessation of hostilities?
2 Down: Antelope pen erected, supplied with electric current
3 Down: Officer in photo with old wind instrument
4 Down: Not a real Pope - just one acting nobly at the outset
5 Down: Concern about one shabby economic period
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Prominent man venerated when hosting immigrant
5 Across: Sights if front of lens held backwards?
9 Across: Correspondence has neither start nor end in address
10 Across: Pole's a cold place to be drinking when scoffing!
11 Across: Papers with coverage of 'Freebies for Leaders' …
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Remove clothes, bare bottom and streak!
2 Down: Perhaps pups make a mess
3 Down: Sexed-up face of obnoxious jerk is consumed by rampant lust
4 Down: What a steak - packed with flavour!
5 Down: Something to control mood or tension when agitated
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Distance Raleigh dashed carrying a bit of tobacco back from colony
6 Across: Sullen Frenchman yielding to wife must be tough
9 Across: Spirit leaves traitor midway through hanging
10 Across: Drink drivers arrested by copper beside a roundabout
11 Across: Past 007 George Lazenby finally splits
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Australia's tail-ender, bowled in Test ground, chucked up in sink
2 Down: Brace of 50s bagged by male cricketer
3 Down: Lodgers attempt to adopt French child female abandoned
4 Down: PM's somewhat divided England
5 Down: Boxer underwear brand purchased by hipster down under
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Bridge completed? I don't know
5 Across: Try almost stupid style of architecture
10 Across: The opposite of to cut out of
11 Across: Nets banker in Paris dividing bags of money
12 Across: Former imperialist micromanaging a bit
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Not connected, rotten crossword layout
2 Down: Periodically verge on conceit
3 Down: Come by secret code protecting procedure
4 Down: Recruit disregarding trick words delivered by actors
6 Down: Cleared broken elevator trapping VIP after sex
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Monday, November 17, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Constant stimulation in boozy party
6 Across: Spy housing missile in oil-producing plant
9 Across: Huge region over in USA is Appalachia
10 Across: Not mad about silver in great demand?
11 Across: First doctor in old Florentine house?
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Bleak wind from south east
3 Down: Arab very shortly heading north
4 Down: Sons much appreciated Mrs Harker's bottom
5 Down: Ring up to import island flower
6 Down: Planned to have school on the Levant?
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Sunday, November 16, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Name muscle-bound actor as Fairy Godmother
8 Across: Collect Charlie Sheen on Wall Street?
9 Across: University replacing last of cheap parking to make room
11 Across: Capital, winning an event
12 Across: Migrants coming through Sandwich or Deal
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Peel tuber for cooking programme
2 Down: Official witness to any Republican dodges
3 Down: Cross journalist covering conflict sent on to another
4 Down: Long line of cars?
5 Down: Dark hens fancy one with colourful legs
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Saturday, November 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Number of goods transported out of France
4 Across: Promotes unique en suite stores
9 Across: Release version of song for two barely behind schedule
10 Across: Short noble in Lyon that is flamboyant
11 Across: Order soldiers away from alcohol inside? That's not right
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Energy company records temperature to inspire one environmentalist
2 Down: Doctor going on vacation early billed UK resident
3 Down: Trifle cheers date
4 Down: File one used to break out of trap
5 Down: Dress up bride more fancy
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Friday, November 14, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Splendid Welsh league accepting representation of founder
10 Across: Relative turned about to go for soup
11 Across: Face consuming supply of tea every 24 hours
12 Across: Former Queen in flamboyant clothing, experiencing damp weather
13 Across: Dark period with good hearts suppressed by idiot
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Mystical scientist sending river into European country marsh
2 Down: I note failure to restrain large pet
3 Down: Seed a Parisian turned up in vegetable matter
4 Down: A lot of commotion about dull inspiration
5 Down: Ionised gas: contrived a sample to emit energy
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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Quality of the special effects reflected on performer
5 Across: Pawn captures are the safe play against white's openings
9 Across: Confirmed landlubber dies at sea
10 Across: One fighting infections in order to curb cold
11 Across: They say to make firm declaration
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Loving the foreign lexicon in translation about Greek character
2 Down: Illustration of Ark containing right number of each animal Noah saved
3 Down: Audibly ripped stitch in upper body
4 Down: Nurse left wound to become sore
5 Down: Villain dealing with gang
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pulling is fraught with danger, at first, for female
5 Across: Awaited from supplier: fancy drone coated in gold
9 Across: Movement from Republican working party
10 Across: Trump's target regarding London home, with golf moving to the forefront
11 Across: A prickly individual, Duke happened to welcome cover-up
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Mock free river patrols
2 Down: English comic book rejected additional monicker
3 Down: German at sea around European ally gets shiny coat
4 Down: Row about good, fierce competitor
5 Down: Excess material in partner's tablet left out
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Time on holiday to get smashed?
4 Across: Sega's hedgehog holds variable speed for many players
9 Across: Chinese site that sells unlimited legal degrees
10 Across: Setter perhaps twisted language
11 Across: Pack Tesla with Ribena in the back? Bosh!
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Brute to receive canonisation shortly?
2 Down: Might crooked regimes produce them?
3 Down: Genesis refuge turned up one-time serpent
4 Down: Potential for lasting tangles over in America
5 Down: Charming soldier still not finished chasing mum
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Monday, November 10, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Writer in bed overwhelmed by endless lovemaking
4 Across: Everything screened by broadcaster is more jaundiced
10 Across: Deliveries cancelled before holidays
11 Across: See 15
12 Across: Secure country
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: They try to stop drag queen stuffing booty
2 Down: Racketeer pilots a new car in reverse
3 Down: Amount offered to kidnap right-winger
5 Down: Ban this awful drink
6 Down: Behold Harry Potter crushing rubbish basket
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: A few coins left for parking? Excellent
5 Across: Refugee camp's perseverance with area becoming tense
9 Across: Opponent of UK institution possibly giving nation its charm?
10 Across: Bondi Beach swimming costume that woman wears out to lunch
11 Across: Saintly Archbishop of Canterbury laments perverts avoiding time
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Common large cracks worried Boeing
3 Down: Sound of 'Go', then lake with hat for cycling and running around it?
4 Down: Bishop alongside demonstrator, moral in a line
5 Down: Now we're making progress which means computers are increasingly popular
6 Down: Butcher can dine pleasantly ...
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