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Monday, March 2, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Romantic page ruined by the woman filming boss
9 Across: Shoulder muscle twisted in a court
10 Across: What one must do to get product like tissues?
11 Across: Laid back country club once cleared out tourists with different ways of speaking
12 Across: Annoying to be discovered in Ormskirk in guesthouse
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Young girl's spoken of primary injury
2 Down: Ring concerning first annulment
3 Down: Almost quote Tom, say, coming up with plan
4 Down: Tense cabinet maker breaking spectacles on route to the highest level
5 Down: Cooking back in Sunderland instead of Gateshead is boring
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Sunday, March 1, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Sergeant major really in favour of cough sweet gets mint
9 Across: Dog performing with duck coming last?
10 Across: Fixing device you can't see the point of?
11 Across: Is trooper on manoeuvres bringing up the rear?
12 Across: Programme you might have seen about sport, endless one
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Without good weather one's upset
3 Down: Untidy business spotted in toilet, diapers emptied out?
4 Down: Thin metal ship has cracked, being rock-bound
5 Down: Change advocate dealing with ex
6 Down: Perfect golf club short of parking
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Saturday, February 28, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Don Juan in hell starts to torment each Russian ballerina?
9 Across: Actor 1 goes west in landing craft
11 Across: Former European bacteriologist
12 Across: A flier's good for advertising
13 Across: Oscar Wilde's "savage beauty" could spark a new romance
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Joe finally starts playing after grabbing bass guitar
2 Down: Bishop and cardinal spread fertiliser
3 Down: Live next to a river or brook
4 Down: Relative has rung the girl about money
5 Down: House official punches Baptist up
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Film and book with curtailed scope
4 Across: Dancing nymphs around love deity, ultimately - or Jupiter, perhaps
8 Across: Heavy garment, one adopted by cottager at work
9 Across: IT device penned verse in 2000
11 Across: A surprised comment about debut of theatre performer
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Cosmological hypothesis second-rate, going by earth's development
2 Down: Person skilful in a version of some art
3 Down: Run into detective, blocking awkward ambush
4 Down: Struggle with incomplete catchphrase
5 Down: Dignified base of monument - damage just around that
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Grand in cash, say, for mischievous child
4 Across: Part of book principal reportedly proscribed
10 Across: Terribly evil nun excited about one German's revelation
11 Across: Yours truly featured in publication about dark arts
12 Across: Some devout Catholics backed diplomacy
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Horse starts to amble into northern part of range
2 Down: Trainee accountant discontentedly checking suspect invoice
3 Down: Portray nude on a grand scale
5 Down: English erected sign incorporating extremely refined circles
6 Down: Diabolic comedian fluffed a line
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Top Belgium international ignored by Redknapp, maybe
4 Across: Endless Swiss chocolate not ultimately beneficial for heavenly body
9 Across: Forcefully strike the wrong way, resulting in tie
10 Across: Robin Hood's friend is potty?
11 Across: Periodically Grace left in charge of language
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Fruit cakes beginning to deteriorate in large handkerchief
2 Down: Concerning number withdrawing flat cola bottles
3 Down: Revolutionary sects primarily infiltrated an island nation
5 Down: Oddly, beetle and fish found in part of steeple
6 Down: Denial of unhappiness with leader becoming Republican
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Certainly a lowish bid by girl
5 Across: Undamaged monitor about to be sent back inside
9 Across: The main writers in Donegal oddly unrepresented
10 Across: Master enters Exeter prepared for highest degree
11 Across: Mashed barley left out as herbal drink
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Girl hangs onto old recipe for a key material
2 Down: Rave tribe ask about Ecstasy sudden deaths
3 Down: Perhaps loosen carpet round top of stairs and take pile down
4 Down: A bed scattered with stash around its top part
5 Down: Serenity's heard - Moonlight Sonata perhaps
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Monday, February 23, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Bound to drink around end of week
4 Across: Places with few grasses or leaves
10 Across: 13 perhaps head off to find antelope in the Pyrenees
11 Across: Moth ultimately ensnared by dreadful trapdoor spider?
12 Across: Tightest locks on street securing back of house
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Light anchor king found on border
3 Down: Penny was on top, holding one in bed tight
4 Down: Time for everyone to stop raving over bit of information
5 Down: Stunned pair is inside safe and sound finally
6 Down: Almost ready for final message
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Sunday, February 22, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Part of Badenoch ancestry that you'll never see!
8 Across: Old American lift regularly expected to drop a little lower
10 Across: E.g. Lewis given wrong information, obscuring case
11 Across: Turn against one?
12 Across: In your ear, pain will go quickly
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Gallery's shadow pointing north and south
2 Down: These sick people initially suspect bugs on lamb
3 Down: Painter entered secretly
4 Down: Compact bag the smallest article fills
5 Down: Large cat cross about new delay
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Saturday, February 21, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Henry discovered fortune-telling method, making money
6 Across: Did live broadcast generate buzz?
9 Across: Do OK as intern
10 Across: In league with French, one provided bomb
11 Across: Slow-burning biomass ultimately crumbling to dust
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Over-the-top misrepresentation of exes' vices
2 Down: Rocker to start playing party piece
3 Down: Be cool kid, endlessly undisciplined
4 Down: Wild eglantine not cultivated
5 Down: Spanish architect inspired by oblong auditorium
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Friday, February 20, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: The same check is catching firm making a birdhouse
5 Across: Strongly smelling substance affected half of horses
9 Across: Difficulty in getting up in an ancient language
10 Across: Comprehend inclination to bag runs
11 Across: Call carvery at last: turkey? It's not what you would call swan!
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Austrian physicist, active person, adopting very quiet line
2 Down: An excess of words for this in an anagram?
3 Down: Rector in church suspended about half of LP record
4 Down: Corporation getting billions after introducing hard part of glove
5 Down: Object to everybody entering cold prehistoric area
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Thursday, February 19, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: One of two possibly having left this place unclad
10 Across: In that region, Hungary lies to the west
11 Across: In both directions I see a commotion
12 Across: Cool, not having old pile sell at a low price
13 Across: Hit on the fact that the spirit of the Caribbean was flowing freely
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: “Club” singer taking over, that surprises me!
2 Down: Fashionable young thing, Kay Short
3 Down: Disorderly non-members knocking out some poor guy in changing room
5 Down: Perhaps Clementine, Charlotte and Lauryn will have to share a cell
6 Down: Band sacked woman missing vocal elements in hotspots
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Align IT launch badly – it's an AI problem
8 Across: Pot-holder about to exhaust last of incense
9 Across: Pitch master showing alto line in repetitive composition
11 Across: Join up components of eleven Rolexes
12 Across: High-flying business quickly capturing asteroid
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Hack potentially taking down Leavitt's fake news
2 Down: ... as aside, a casual farewell to Gore?
3 Down: One cross-channel article and another occupying leasing firm
4 Down: Moulded plasticine, not initially stiff
5 Down: Ignoring the face, more beautiful frame
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Fish died after net unfortunately snarled
6 Across: Prepares to fire helmsman, from the sound of it
9 Across: The last couple leaving servitude arranged benefits
10 Across: Ban flipping setter then take over
11 Across: Optimistically expecting hard work and energy
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Resentment of another Nobel Venezuelan originally received
2 Down: What's covered by casual shirt, approximately
3 Down: What you hope to see through sunglasses? Water in Cannes, having just arrived there
4 Down: Case of lascivious American with Epstein essentially filling cravings
5 Down: Outstanding leader of Denmark uplifting continental bloc
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Monday, February 16, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Prisoner's label tucked into socks
5 Across: One sometimes working to restore mobile bars?
9 Across: Is surrounding old lady with religious leaders
10 Across: Trendy set fairly regularly coming to place for treatments
11 Across: Make weak argument defending current literature
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Maybe Bob Harris's debut transformed radio?
2 Down: Threadbare throw worn by abbess
3 Down: Skilfully coats item in liquid with 100% effectiveness
4 Down: John almost upended George
5 Down: California holiday? Look up somewhere to eat
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