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Thursday, October 9, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Hearing sounds rebounding around start of seminar
5 Across: Bovine couple's shared desire?
8 Across: Foreign courts are targets of Farage's rants
9 Across: Chastise at home, not outside
11 Across: Ridiculous yogurt pots unsatisfactory
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Plagiarise answer and continue to covertly gain advantage
2 Down: Second Prime Minister to bottle a Waltzer?
3 Down: Eager sex at church ending in ignominy
4 Down: Made orderly want to receive a top mark
5 Down: Family of actors reportedly see you on bed
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Judge made to pay for hearing
3 Across: Star trio cast as double-crossers
9 Across: Venetian possibly has a cry about dead end
10 Across: Crush soft stuff left behind by old flames
11 Across: Drunk is irate behind whiskey plant
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Note written by India during losing streak: "maybe catch something"
2 Down: Musicians with nothing in the way of service?
4 Down: Once again pick up relative by bank
5 Down: Eden regularly snubbed kindly old liberal
6 Down: Work by poets is moving here and there?
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Change in America, welcoming Republican and key symbol of Islam
5 Across: Thoroughfare that can be shortened by removal of lime?
9 Across: Perhaps cook the egg again after rector admitted blame
10 Across: Normal nowadays, English display of pomp and circumstance
12 Across: Get rid of clothes for all to see parasite
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Circumnavigate round figure in a plane
2 Down: Former partner, hammered, unravelled
3 Down: Shut up about every other couple in love seat
4 Down: Occasionally enhance magazine's cover
6 Down: Tipped over dessert to wind up restaurant
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Monday, October 6, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Ray has closure about a foreign bishop
5 Across: Edward Lear originally quits teams
9 Across: Call for toilets
10 Across: Loud cairn barking is hostile
11 Across: Used to transfer rating
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Breach of school doctrine
2 Down: Pest is leaving shade
3 Down: Is last seen mixing food and drink?
4 Down: Chops with sauce
5 Down: Type of gear that's city-focused!
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Old men with heads together pulled apart, glaring
6 Across: Cryptic equivalent of temperature into Celsius?
9 Across: Chuck's ready to corrupt official, perhaps
10 Across: Artist chosen to replace Parisian is soaking wood
11 Across: Take wrong street with east of motorway split
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Quickly drop crumbs in empty pot
3 Down: Protection English and American soldier wear equally
4 Down: Euro Senor tossed bum
5 Down: Heel pain occupies mind
6 Down: Copper that takes the biscuit showing restraint?
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: I need to add a parting gift bag
5 Across: Main character is power mad
10 Across: Ridicule a boring liberal politician with nothing on
11 Across: Lay it on thick like Hollandaise at brunch
12 Across: Now and then, have endless distress
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Difficult offer
2 Down: Tim Key turned up in middle of cast leaks
3 Down: Republican probes top brass about exercising restraint
4 Down: Walk through legal framework
6 Down: One holds hands eventually with model
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Friday, October 3, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Singer to comprehend soprano needs no piano
4 Across: Defy small buzzing insect
9 Across: Not looking for anybody, not entirely, at this time of day
10 Across: Offers to catch right creatures
11 Across: American pursuing scandalous rumours without much substance
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: City in the part of Germany initially bathed in light
2 Down: Contents of gallery shock - religious figure departing
3 Down: Uncovered person about to engage in bet and run?
4 Down: What could be arranged by twelve? Broadcast media could
5 Down: Extracted coal, perhaps extracting energy, generating attention
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Continue performing after horror novel's recited
5 Across: Artificial gin drunk at Glastonbury?
9 Across: Get fruit via supermarket loyalty scheme in mid-September
10 Across: Delicious warm doughnut disappears
11 Across: Substance found in delicatessen - celery?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Things given up when renouncing Catholic fellow admitted
2 Down: Strains of seaweeds with leaves
3 Down: Head of Yamaha making money - yen?
4 Down: Extremely green water coming up street
5 Down: C-lister in rehab?
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Force out wild civet
10 Across: When one suddenly understands a warning sign about bad actor at Tesla?
11 Across: Revolutionary routine forbidden wearing headdress
12 Across: Drink some fake firewater
13 Across: Working at welcoming Germans in public relations exercise?
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Expert fed up with Thailand
2 Down: N Italian actor Seth supports Milan, ultimately
3 Down: Musteline mammal with no tail seen in portico
4 Down: Philanthropist's explosive anger with ICE
5 Down: Man drinking with liberal composer
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: In church, one pursues point about Genesis
6 Across: Men's competition winners not male?
10 Across: Eminem track describing the writer's reproductive organ
11 Across: Put in the water to upset pivotal maritime operation
12 Across: Doctor to specialise primarily in tooth adjustment
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Crazy time to enter student union
3 Down: Space containing large tree
4 Down: Belief in X and leaders in Elon's team
5 Down: Socialist former PM informally returns, taking on two days' irregular employment
7 Down: About to leave grand geriatric hospital with treatment for backside and sensitive spot on arm
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Monday, September 29, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Vast amount of land found back in Faisalabad
8 Across: Clerk Brit annoyed with one amusing joke
10 Across: Large drink and shake maiden polished off
11 Across: Overseer primarily gets cross with language in plant
12 Across: One polite around knight being licentious
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Enormous Roman Stoic must get into shape
2 Down: Old relative given cash for food
3 Down: British become paralysed after female released wind
4 Down: Famous drunken outburst about IS by curt conservative
5 Down: Son and family at university prepare a joint
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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Beautiful valley not enough for tyrant emperor
8 Across: What deli may offer visiting prodnose down west
9 Across: Promotion introducing love song and dance
10 Across: Pass over Panamanian port
11 Across: Spooner's suggestions are much better than cosmetic
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Plaster-work crosses over with business
2 Down: One female crossword compiler, among others
3 Down: Possibly vote against party
4 Down: Official quietly breaks into military area
5 Down: Dumb-ass guy disturbs writer somewhat
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Watch out for drone, possibly covering conflict
4 Across: Did champ after overturning ban go on?
9 Across: Volvo in front with gold Cadillac for variety
10 Across: Everyone still unmarried, apparently not yet settled
11 Across: Space traveller came across men circling Earth
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Underwear pretty good quality for soldiers, say
2 Down: Shape that has wide and thin side
3 Down: Bank opening much later for motorists, that is
5 Down: Help for actors to determine how old theatre is?
6 Down: Cherubs or other fliers?
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Emphasise cutting first hair
8 Across: University's new commotion about sources of private finance, usually troublesome
10 Across: Diversify, disrupting average with it
11 Across: Complete set of books contributing to endless story
12 Across: Joke you are returning shows some preparation
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Expensive ban, keeping British out
2 Down: He's to pay to get manipulated - in this?
3 Down: Worthless, you grant, after review
4 Down: Commit crime - that is, against pinching article? On the contrary
5 Down: Yank returned, having received liberal surplus
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Thursday, September 25, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Spin doctor uses power move in the gym?
5 Across: Knife cut revolutionary Australian natives
9 Across: Line taken by glib old philosopher
10 Across: Millions avoiding nearly all bigotry and exclusion
11 Across: Maybe order new digital filing tool
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Man City's manager for a season
2 Down: Destroyed recording of Taylor Swift tour before journalist
3 Down: Extremely poor rent boys OK to work
4 Down: Fiery love under pressure still
5 Down: Draw these around 9 pm in Britain
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