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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: False hope develops around New Year
8 Across: Brave call following positive response from Putin?
9 Across: So blue after first love's gone off the boil
10 Across: Find fault with regularly sharing deeper arrangement
12 Across: Provides continuity in cat broadcast
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Milky white oil's transformed each year in place of independence
2 Down: Weak spirit left over weeks in ewers lacks body
3 Down: Two teachers picked up rubbish
4 Down: Cuckoo pecked at recorder?
5 Down: Cats touch hearts from time to time
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Monday, January 19, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Chicken or fish sandwiches campaign
4 Across: Potentially, exams for American agents learner passes to get headgear
9 Across: Locksmith who's valued for their trade?
10 Across: Bill loves talking about death, among other things
11 Across: Sound setter makes with sympathetic exclamation
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Easy task to stir sealant for Spooner
2 Down: Good job to deliver step of cheese making process?
3 Down: Topless husband soon finding place to stay for the night
4 Down: Dismiss Labour's angry outburst
5 Down: Clean up the cat turd spread on everyone?
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Sunday, January 18, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pet minds Sam leaving in the morning
4 Across: Film creatures right inside eviscerated astronauts?
8 Across: Creator of lottery managed by complete Scrooge
10 Across: Giant boob at Wembley, possibly concerning
11 Across: Dog willing to hump anyone in designer jeans? On the contrary
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Slope around hospital room
2 Down: Fair features of women marrying with face hidden?
3 Down: Almost half opposed to crosswords on vacation — language issues?
5 Down: Structure supporting weight beneath large tree
6 Down: Marx among others once mucked around with duck film
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Saturday, January 17, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pay them with change and compassion
5 Across: Emperor's vehicle circumnavigating westward ocean
10 Across: Traversing cold Antarctic sea wearing gilet top
11 Across: King retaining old soldier, one of the late queen's favourites?
12 Across: Musk's company drones possibly gathering to pursue current prey in Africa
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: French clown's dirty broadcast on the radio
3 Down: Politicians were concealing outcome of enquiry
4 Down: Suffer in the wake of hot weather
6 Down: Notice posh clubs and racist organisation infiltrating southern city
7 Down: Partners to capture freewheeling rogue operator
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Money: a sort of thing that runs short?
5 Across: Dutch explorer positioned to return with Queen, say
8 Across: Upright performers in dance curtailed for royal venue
10 Across: Sudden change of course? Bad look suppressed by head of BBC
11 Across: 'French parent and English' will gather sharp comment regarding descent
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Certain type of pyramid? Sensible not having sex on top
3 Down: American musical, live, hosted by church group
4 Down: Notorious rogue is punished around 9
5 Down: What you might call Elon Musk's remuneration?
6 Down: Personnel regularly intervening in unhappy scrap
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Toxic chemical made by strange doc yearning to inhabit evil alter ego
9 Across: Copied data source from installation wizard
10 Across: Oscar won by impersonator - ridiculous and irregular
11 Across: Reported great uncertainty in criminals' location
12 Across: I married a couple in cleric's office
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Elevation of inaugural location for Black King's castle
2 Down: Spooner's awful basketball shot is wasted
3 Down: Repetitive ascending extract from twelve-tone nocturne
4 Down: Bang on about cutting taxes, endlessly regressive
5 Down: Tough quality of game stuffed with hock?
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Stopping assistant showing fracture to an audience — dead strange
8 Across: Sound of sneeze under discussion
10 Across: Coordinate muscles, so taken aback by onset of spasms
11 Across: Perhaps Trump, Epstein and Andrew repeatedly stripped to get massage
12 Across: Destiny of king is with Eccles, given time
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: In the House of Lords, official support staff to take Latin
2 Down: Cheeky, exposed backside in Boston
3 Down: Reputation of artist consequently dropping hard
4 Down: After scratching head, understand file
5 Down: Nasty man aggressive; I must leave
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Crown princess owned those things in 'ackney
5 Across: Plant's 'ealing mixture with added calcium
9 Across: Support for King 'enry is following Yorkist leader invading most of capital
10 Across: Ridin' an 'arley? Put on one's 2-piece suit!
11 Across: After renovation it 'ad clean bed and good food to eat
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: One's not normally for putting 'eadless 'orseman of legend without an aitch
3 Down: 'ard up. With support, finally overcomes disadvantages
4 Down: Lay 'im out with third of punches for the most part
5 Down: Small broadcasting companies 'ad first run in with governments
6 Down: In Britain I wager 'e'd get 'anged
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Monday, January 12, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Archetypal bachelor pressed by heartless adversary on show
6 Across: Join main motorway
9 Across: Terribly posh area besieged by disorderly rabble entering city
10 Across: Jay bird's prominent feature
12 Across: Representative keeps fighting with sponsor
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Regularly applying product gives you seductive look
2 Down: Balls-up in Middlesbrough!
3 Down: Chagrin of former primate maintaining small allotment
4 Down: Empty pool bordering lake
5 Down: American is catching on, following everybody's hints
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Sunday, January 11, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Those backing hopeless idea off Blue Peter
8 Across: Criminal out by alarm capable of being altered
10 Across: Bondage gear in SEATs Republican dropped off around noon
11 Across: Very high trail by European circular path
12 Across: Just terrible having to lose face
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Time of year a beehive might be unmanageable?
2 Down: Dutch boats crossing line gives great pleasure
3 Down: One small missile rising by fighter in formation
4 Down: Black and blue balls ... settle down!
5 Down: Stumped by labours? Not with those delivering babies!
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: American agent managed to turn around company
10 Across: City wall with banana on?
11 Across: Early poem's second half - reminiscent of Don Juan? - moving boyfriend's heart
12 Across: Secretary accompanying a Scotsman?
13 Across: A Scot renovated cafe
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Hotel near Morecambe where one's depressed and tense, with yen for central London?
2 Down: A Scotsman who lives in Dubai?
3 Down: Sony mobile carried by highly-strung chauffeur who's always interfering
4 Down: Strong start to Howard's wedding vows?
5 Down: Keep, say, eight thousand building blocks in the OXO Tower?
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Friday, January 9, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Departs with booze in barrel
4 Across: Have a second job - flash working followed by rest
10 Across: Encores rang out - from this part of church?
11 Across: Tree bark
12 Across: Drop off surface
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Poor Scots, upset about good dress
3 Down: One's trapped in large unknown religious building
4 Down: Friend increasingly a mess after one leaves
5 Down: Certain to abandon Society after blatant offer
6 Down: Language school in Gothenburg offering a restricted range
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Thursday, January 8, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Wearside city is buried?
6 Across: Madam Weisberg's opening immoral houses?
10 Across: Some dhansak? Or madras? Something milder?
11 Across: Lawgiver hoarding metals prepares for war
12 Across: Seconds served with fish and pomelo
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Reportedly look for religious adherent
2 Down: No petrol spilled outside hot and cold location
3 Down: Bounder dying to tour Californian city
4 Down: Light working bathes one's head in caricature
5 Down: Writer returning very fine Scottish port
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: Hustlers in resort showing no compassion
9 Across: Model missing at Underground station
10 Across: Tight members of hunting party being sent back
11 Across: Travellers seen going after a perfume
12 Across: Film audience's avoided
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Service inspired by conversion of true apostate?
2 Down: Time to stay close to gorilla?
3 Down: Discuss revolutionary plot over high tea
4 Down: City spectacles entertaining school on vacation
5 Down: Son caught in thongs maybe
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:5 Across: Regularly suss out band together, as is the custom
7 Across: Put down answer in red biro?
9 Across: Newspaper page dealt with after rejecting first piece of copy
10 Across: District with everyone beginning to steal tyre parts
12 Across: Couple swapping, pale and innocent
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Party manager's plea to manage expectations?
2 Down: Mawkish, conniving American husband's boring
3 Down: Harry owes cash for present
4 Down: Fish and wedges hospital binned
6 Down: Motor slick lad in drainpipes gave the once-over
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