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Sunday, February 15, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Undivided cooking apple on right of oven
6 Across: Notable partygoer brought back aboard oil rig tipsy
9 Across: Hide pepper
10 Across: Cake British composer eats when the news is on?
11 Across: Slow movement moving to Toscanini when piano comes in
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Large tentacled creature raised behind pub is extraordinary
3 Down: Some other people, presumably suggesting southerly wind
4 Down: Running club train - it makes running easier
5 Down: Exceedingly hot in apartment and going up
6 Down: Tribe from apparently glacial part of UK?
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Saturday, February 14, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Criticise terrible roads - shock source of troubles?
5 Across: Eat around six? Perfect!
10 Across: My new strong horse gets some maize
11 Across: Headgear that guy allows to protect back of cranium
12 Across: What flows through 5 Greeks and mythic horse-man
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: More discerning, irrational and cold, Starmer turns guts
2 Down: Sailor follows old prime minister's guiding light
3 Down: Writer so upset about cycling director Billy
4 Down: Resin found occasionally in rising creek by moat
6 Down: Maybe Avalon features in this legend
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Friday, February 13, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Dawn escape in which one runs beside street
6 Across: Erase nothing in video
9 Across: Besotted, Mac swoons about a bit of tottie - if she's this?
10 Across: One Aussie truck reversed in case
12 Across: First example of mother catching a daughter's dodge
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Promotes practicable issue originally from elsewhere?
2 Down: Red or white wine: red is odd, initially, certainly from Riesling grower?
3 Down: Pattern of identical shapes disrupted on satellites
4 Down: Satirical comedian, one taking on rise in crime during corruption
5 Down: Black vehicles and pick up trucks are lorries ultimately
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Thursday, February 12, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Put steps outside at home with men planning
10 Across: Scottish John stops Pilot Officer in quiet passage
11 Across: Good and bad to host initially riotous quiz
12 Across: Does this foresee terrible cost, recession and a war?
13 Across: Two for one for example in Bury
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Greeting from one again and again denied preferment?
2 Down: Person misusing horse? Put on an extra court
4 Down: Person with assured belief Arkwright heard?
5 Down: Easy opportunity to bag stray reptile
6 Down: Kitty after second little bit
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Parents meeting Conservative legend?
9 Across: Former partner looks after projects
10 Across: Chauvinist, perhaps, is able to welcome male bores
11 Across: Rat on waste container after party
12 Across: See revolutionary cycling round Greek island? That's hush-hush
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Views reality shows primarily encapsulating English
2 Down: Shaking this aphrodisiac could result in violent poo
3 Down: Attempt to support extremely stroppy Frenchwoman in correspondence
4 Down: Women in Nevadan city upset proprietor
5 Down: Baking ingredient easy to change with bit of cheese in recipe
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Pale, slim naked lady having a day out
3 Across: A male animal, one of four in pack
6 Across: Starts to feel apostatic - it tests his religion
10 Across: Continued creeping around under the radar
11 Across: Second century article, gold-plated statuette
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Place serving cooked grub (no ale, sadly)
2 Down: Delicate material pierced by new weapon
4 Down: Play, sing, dance like a lark?
5 Down: Credit this country for setting up parties
6 Down: Barrier put around Lima, old resistance capital once
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Member meets elderly fellow in final showdown
6 Across: Fervent low wail
10 Across: Scorer taken aback by rapid review
11 Across: Russian plotters essentially bungled - they get exposed
12 Across: Frenchman with brogue's half Welsh
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: This might determine how things are done - here or there?
2 Down: Making grubby writer's group read aloud
3 Down: Conducting supplication bareheaded?
4 Down: So-called smart creature - it tells the time to kids in the garden!
5 Down: Handy over, prising out Australia's tail and leading
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Sunday, February 8, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Jargon I allow, having talked turkey first
9 Across: Cut off in long twisted pieces
10 Across: Thingamy's party none enjoyed, on reflection
11 Across: What about rolls for hunger?
12 Across: Child eating seconds of steak made our bull cross
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Shock from back of generator during power cut
3 Down: American in Soho, tube heaving, gets home for eight
4 Down: Vortex that inspired Dyson hoovers?
5 Down: Venice exposed with rising sea coming in across the region
6 Down: Arab's cash I brought through Paris airport as usual
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Saturday, February 7, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: I caught ball
3 Across: Stirrer stirring in tea leaves originally from the ground
9 Across: Designer carries 21 tops for idle ushers marshalling funeral venue
10 Across: Kelly's back room
11 Across: Stages on which Sir Ralph Richardson stood
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Outperform skinny swimmer going about 90
2 Down: Setter climbs church next to green high-rise
3 Down: One of the 22 players snubbed by Liverpool's no. 1
4 Down: Poke around the middle of crossbill's nest
5 Down: 'Stayin' Alive' excites one headed to dance
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Friday, February 6, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: US school dance about to occur involving student in difficulty
5 Across: Signs of hesitation interrupting magistrates, the bounders
9 Across: That guy in pub turning things round with such treatment?
10 Across: Meaning to switch components of TV for this new idea
11 Across: Conceal Hampshire river in preparation for film
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Young fellow good in roles in choral pieces
2 Down: Different concern getting book cancelled
3 Down: Gilbert? It's Gilbert, heading off, distressed over carpet, ultimately
4 Down: Something causing damp is more fluid around late evening, say
5 Down: Japan is dismissive of Latin dances
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Thursday, February 5, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: They have a quick bite when taking a breather going over hill
6 Across: That man with £500 set aside
10 Across: Savage spotted individual laughing in the bush?
11 Across: Substances promoting growth in 17 nuts
12 Across: One tears up the road in plum car I'd let out
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Long article about heroin and ecstasy
2 Down: Ready to attack claim ex is now racist periodically
3 Down: Nark catching American dons teaching English the second I expressed it's unnecessary
4 Down: Contrive to lose a rampant doctor that never leaves the pub
5 Down: Around tavernas essentially it's drunk neat regularly
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Labour follower: “Half of London is a corrupt place”
5 Across: Can of fizzy cocktail
9 Across: Want to bump off daughter ... what are you on?
10 Across: Those in two minds about ultimately clumsy heel taps
11 Across: Sex drug helping to get a repeated performance
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Mark from Flanders leaving France for Britain
2 Down: A worker present ultimately during boozy sesh
3 Down: Tree line eventually hides unit attacking at front
4 Down: Silly trick in PE leaves one in critical condition
5 Down: Boy seen around a large Barnet establishment?
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Perhaps young ladies returning diamonds like waste from coal mine?
5 Across: Old-fashioned craft which might help you shape hedges
9 Across: Treacherous type regularly wanting in on correspondence
10 Across: Sober sailors can essentially get any number a little tipsy
11 Across: Old lady's emotional, missing ace showing dominance
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Save seafood that's cold, not hot
2 Down: Taking part in dry run for show
3 Down: Extremely grave old writer cracks systems for calculating lengths
4 Down: Bashful, perhaps, having served up some half-raw dinners
5 Down: Church saint privy to wit - no point complaining about it
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Monday, February 2, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Get up and play cards?
4 Across: Fancy circles marry off stock holder
10 Across: A game is fixed, with an order for more?
11 Across: Less than tight clues back in Indy
12 Across: Set of characters performing in Fawlty Towers primarily
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Grumpy colleague finding it hard to make friends
2 Down: Men on acid lost control
3 Down: Economical extracting business, perhaps?
5 Down: They hang out in the sun: oily, topless, and beginning to sweat
6 Down: Quince's second part's in Hamlet - he's playing patriarch
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Small amount wasted - order less!
10 Across: TV channel once held back final part of Daphne Duck
11 Across: Guards opening exits and access points
12 Across: Public performance by couple out of time throughout and late
13 Across: Yellow aggregate containing clay and hematite primarily
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: University nurses oddly in favour of master's degree remaining the same
2 Down: Sewer in street's an irritating thing?
3 Down: Head lost in despair abandoned hope
4 Down: Arsenal reserves warm up
5 Down: County has address centrally within mall perhaps to let
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