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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Shout out for Hearts in matches, yelling "Goal"
6 Across: Army doctor shifted hips down a bit
9 Across: American backing Trump's third term in newspaper article - strange world
10 Across: Half undressed man checked out
11 Across: Mop tea from cups
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Become thinner? Order a fryer
3 Down: Chinese toilet you're in starts to test everything
4 Down: Route through grandstand is covered with beer
5 Down: Madonna covers numbers Rolling Stones worked on
6 Down: Travel writer back from Cairo cut old stuff up
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Saturday, December 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:6 Across: Time Out slammed Brian Eno hit
9 Across: One's interested in fish out of water, naturally
10 Across: Local batting like English — endlessly hopeless
11 Across: Look forward to raise for top job
13 Across: Some feel Biden lies about being fit to serve
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Fund scrapping first new union joiner
2 Down: Risk to cuddle flash European one encountered in bed
3 Down: Woman fed up, for the most part
4 Down: Party time, to cut a long story short
5 Down: Moving forwards guards love taking a break
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Friday, December 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Great guy from East needs minute inside shops
5 Across: Punk's green hair pushed back
9 Across: English invested in wine initially stored in vessels
10 Across: Pamper uncle with a ruptured spleen
11 Across: Withdrawn journalist clutching pamphlet
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Hard to follow The King's Speech
2 Down: Agent X after stuff on radio
3 Down: Rotten Row recreated outside small place like Margate?
4 Down: Snake one caught in savoury jelly
5 Down: Rook — different meat in northern town
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: At Arsenal, United fan starts to dance so wildly it makes ground shake
9 Across: Mock host screening film 'Big' regularly
10 Across: Odious businessman backed ban on the French
11 Across: Erotic film produces high-pitched sound - what caused it?
12 Across: Tennis shot entertains with change of direction ...
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Review first three parts of music?
2 Down: Initially nervous individual seals off brownish leak
3 Down: Help oneself to son's chips
4 Down: Ignoring wife, write choral works over-elaborate in style
5 Down: National Trust eschews God Save the King? I doubt that!
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: High stool is for an elevated player
5 Across: Defiles some taken in by scams
9 Across: Enter race and finish out of line
10 Across: From then on centre of area is not affected
11 Across: Picked up eau de Cologne perhaps?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: He's not a ‘people person' and lost his cool mostly over caress
2 Down: Drooping heads of orange petals on African flower
3 Down: Last of trifle in a sort of ceramic dish for dessert
4 Down: A way to treat those people involving informal talk
5 Down: Throw line into water by the French chateaux
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Inclination to harpoon grand American whale
5 Across: Giving new face to seductress in capital of Germany
9 Across: Lunar features in large part of planet, I start to admit
10 Across: Former city tending to oust a radical
11 Across: Somehow depict howl in a deep voice
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Good folk taking things steadily are risk takers
2 Down: A dispute with repeated opening point
3 Down: Very quiet religious mission sent out to cover America
4 Down: Relief only after securing account
5 Down: Long-standing conflict? Former soldier cheers, welcoming conclusion
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Monday, December 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Soldier at front seen in new drama with gun?
6 Across: One punching fat landowner north of the border
9 Across: Set moved with effort is not in the way
10 Across: What stops backsliding boozer?
11 Across: Decline essentially seen in river with rapids ultimately
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Old dons playing golf with lead in American Gangster
2 Down: Terrible in-law: fulsome to some degree
3 Down: Hating diets, gent goes on a bender
4 Down: Overheating old server core men refurbished
5 Down: Husband taking down trousers will make love
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Sunday, December 14, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Bachelor travels on motorway to help girl taking train
7 Across: Thump boyfriend admitting condition
9 Across: Collaborator who French support when injured
10 Across: Mother curtailed baby's insubordination
11 Across: Sceptic bishop feeds tailored version of God to humanist
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: One piece of toast ample?
3 Down: Revolt suits leaders of guerrillas desperate for reform
4 Down: Aren't ropes aboard ship very good quality?
5 Down: WWI battleground Nivelle evacuated with gas coming over
6 Down: Restrain mother hen
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Saturday, December 13, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Good shout having skipped starters?
6 Across: They should be put back on course
9 Across: Net zero in India is deployed to capture carbon, old chap?
10 Across: Small euphemism in personal ad derives complaint
11 Across: Maintain no central banks free from blame
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: One makes easy returns rattle past Wimbledon champion
3 Down: Family planning to ignore the church machine
4 Down: Table ultimately put together with lousy glue
5 Down: Spreading manure on Scottish island in gallons
6 Down: Blasted public school bores were romantically involved
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Friday, December 12, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Hit first button - ultimately receive gift
5 Across: Get through article about sport? On the contrary
9 Across: Island creature, flightless bird, caught between both sides
10 Across: Unimportant Nationalist in government for only a brief time?
11 Across: Government-appointed businessman sadly wrong about America, investing in US money
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Large bird in lake, one tucking into nut
2 Down: Guy looking up, dismissing a tree
3 Down: Bound to have married during relationship in October down under?
4 Down: Praise upholding Christmas, omitting line about fireplace item?
5 Down: Hang on - about to leave Holland in a French carriage?
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Olympian sprinter heard Misha's tin rattling
9 Across: Melt the ice with excellent - no ace - Sunday meal
10 Across: At first you use carpet combs, anxiously searching for Adam's needles
11 Across: Splendid friend with a wagging tail
12 Across: Line not seen in tree's curve
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Hawkwind EP that's extensive
3 Down: Ghastly Blunt, essentially overcome by terrible flaw
4 Down: Drink onboard and dance in competitive game in sarcastic fashion
5 Down: Brief passage: "furry mice, mule and mare skinned outside school"
6 Down: Bean producer finally hires Spanish painter who's no good
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:5 Across: Picked up tips from tramp in tent
6 Across: Thick-skinned individual left during fight with America
9 Across: English Tory's desperate for aphrodisiac
10 Across: Boxing in Jack and King with lead of ten
11 Across: Desire back massage before noon
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Pass judgement on several words, appropriately structured
2 Down: Pull again, an inflammatory action
3 Down: Ruin ostentatious jewellery's mottled appearance
4 Down: Tail of rook found in tree
5 Down: Blossoming after score in rugby test
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Keep parts for sailor appealing to film's producers
5 Across: Fit au pair periodically used car
9 Across: Whisper "need to run off"
11 Across: Fact spinning commercial corporation
12 Across: Breed a little fox with koala's tail
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Puma company mock-up to clothe United
2 Down: Child supports team that hardly matters
3 Down: Trouble with flight time after AI emptied register
4 Down: Charged piece prefaced by liberal pride figure?
6 Down: Tough Americans embracing Republican couple
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Monday, December 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Frenzied dancing here, the outcome of Tom's hip replacement
5 Across: Remove front from sheds with a wide cutting tool
9 Across: Rats uncovered the fish
10 Across: Argument about city one's to visit, causing anxiety
11 Across: Boron must be swathed in cloth after girl handled container
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Second American call girl possibly pursued by twisted barrister, the old rogue
2 Down: Cattle and horses registered in Duke's place
3 Down: Stick around southern island, getting hot
4 Down: Wrote off breakdown van?
5 Down: Concocted a lethal brew, dropping bottom bits, to make infusion
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Sunday, December 7, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Teacher made knots in his hair
9 Across: Practising lawyers troubling to Morse
10 Across: Bad mushroom trip's beginning in a frenzy
11 Across: Vet again checks animal that's caught cold
12 Across: Cheap fizz from Majestic brought round
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Meaningful picture from reading out Mog's letters
3 Down: Tear up unfashionable husband's old cotton belt?
4 Down: Faces court released to the public
5 Down: Grip case with empty travelator ahead
6 Down: Message from girl I am excited about
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