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Saturday, January 31, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 1970 album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
12 Across: US conductor and composer who wrote the score of the musical West Side Story
14 Across: 1991 western comedy film starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance
15 Across: Widespread flowering plant also known as a marguerite
16 Across: Best Actor Oscar-winner for Reversal of Fortune
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Disease caused by dietary deficiency of thiamine
2 Down: The cupbearer of the gods in Greek mythology
3 Down: English actor, comedian, musician and composer who first came to prominence in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe
4 Down: In Greek mythology, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
5 Down: Song composed by Paul McCartney for the 1969 film The Magic Christian that was a top ten hit for Badfinger
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Saturday, January 24, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The first Elvis Costello single that credited the Attractions as his backing band
12 Across: Design involving small pieces of coloured glass, stone etc fitted together
13 Across: Fluid, containing chiefly white blood cells, that is collected from the tissues of the body
14 Across: The capital of Curaçao
15 Across: British poet who was poet laureate from 1968 to 1972
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located
2 Down: Ford model replaced by the Escort
3 Down: The study of the sources and development of words
4 Down: Capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan
5 Down: Island in the Straits of Florida associated with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams
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Saturday, January 17, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: US state mentioned in the John Denver song Take Me Home, Country Roads
8 Across: Fine fibrous substance, also known as kapok, used as stuffing for cushions
13 Across: Relating to teaching methods designed to support pupils with learning difficulties
14 Across: Evergreen shrub with spiny leaves and clusters of yellow flowers
15 Across: Fort ___, 1948 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: German prince entitled to be involved in choosing the Holy Roman Emperor
3 Down: Last of a trilogy of western films in the 1960s, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More
4 Down: 1976 top ten hit by Stevie Wonder, from the Songs in the Key of Life album
5 Down: Migratory diving duck, the male of which is black and white with a green head
6 Down: Immature form of insects such as the dragonfly
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the TV series The Good Life
12 Across: 1964 serial composition that is Milton Babbitt's best-known work
13 Across: Type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room
14 Across: Stage name of bassist, singer and actor Gordon Sumner
15 Across: Song combined with Little Drummer Boy and recorded in 1977 for Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as a duet with David Bowie
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The capital of the Independent State of Samoa
2 Down: Former country whose name was changed from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1929
3 Down: Body of water located in Western Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
4 Down: British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp
5 Down: Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger
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Saturday, January 3, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: South African-born actress who won an Oscar for Monster
12 Across: The evergreen Mediterranean tree Quercus ilex
15 Across: Winners of the first five European Cups in football
16 Across: German golfer who won the 2010 PGA Championship and the 2014 US Open
17 Across: American actress and comedienne whose films include Nashville, 9 to 5 and I Heart Huckabees
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Jean ___, prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003
2 Down: 1894 novel by George du Maurier that gave its name to a hat
3 Down: Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptor whose films include Beat the Devil, Trapeze and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
4 Down: Tammi ___, Motown star whose duets with Marvin Gaye included You're All I Need to Get By
5 Down: The ___ Prince, 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly
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Saturday, December 27, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The second largest city in the United States
12 Across: The last James Bond film to feature Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
15 Across: American golfer who won the US Open in 1992
16 Across: The first James Bond film not to take story elements from the works of Ian Fleming
17 Across: The fish Salmo trutta
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Silvery-white precious metallic element that does not tarnish or corrode
2 Down: Plant cultivated for its crisp curly leaves, used in salads
3 Down: Brazilian city that hosted COP30 in 2025
4 Down: Industrial city in NW Spain that is capital of Asturias
5 Down: A bony fish with rayed fins and a swim bladder, such as herring, carp, eel, cod, perch, etc
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Saturday, December 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Industrial port in central Japan, on Honshu, between Tokyo and Yokohama
13 Across: Bill ___, England batsman who made his debut in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980
14 Across: One name for the larva of a geometrid moth
15 Across: A collarless, sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or jumper
16 Across: The one legal party in Spain under the Franco regime
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Actress who came to fame playing Elaine Nardo in the TV series Taxi
10">Aquatic bird whose varieties include mute, trumpeter and whooper
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Saturday, December 13, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: West African republic bordered by Senegal to the north
11 Across: Empress of France as wife of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1796 to 1809
13 Across: Culinary term meaning wrapped in pastry and baked
14 Across: 1984 novel by J G Ballard that draws extensively on his experiences in World War II
15 Across: Character first played by Joan Collins in the first episode of Dynasty's second season in 1981
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Site of a US naval base in Cuba at which a detention camp was established in January 2002
2 Down: Abbreviated name of the second largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain
3 Down: The parliament of the Republic of Ireland
4 Down: 1983 hit single for Van Halen
5 Down: Dog puppet associated with Bob Carolgees
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Saturday, December 6, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 1976 number one single for ABBA, originally recorded by Anni-Frid Lyngstad on her second solo album Frida ensam
12 Across: Football team promoted to the Premier League as 2014-15 Championship winners
14 Across: 2001 song by Linkin Park that gave them their biggest US hit
15 Across: Mississippi-born American soprano awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964
16 Across: US name for rude noises called raspberries in the UK
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Canadian actor whose films include Point Break, Speed and John Wick
2 Down: Prime minister who became Earl of Avon
3 Down: City on South Island, New Zealand, that is a regional trading centre for sheep and agricultural products
4 Down: Figure in the legend of King Arthur depicted as being responsible for his downfall
5 Down: Variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot
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Saturday, November 29, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 2002 Stephen Daldry film starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore
12 Across: Leading English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods
14 Across: A dark sweet ale brewed from black malt
15 Across: 1979 number one single by the Boomtown Rats inspired by an incident at an Elementary School in San Diego
16 Across: University city in central Germany on the river Saale
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The large aquatic bird Cygnus cygnus
2 Down: Tennessee city immortalised in a 1941 Glenn Miller song
3 Down: Scottish Celtic rock band formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973
4 Down: Acetylsalicylic acid
5 Down: The predatory canine mammal, Canis latrans, also called a prairie wolf
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: A container, often made of papier-mâché, filled with treats and broken as part of a ceremony or celebration
12 Across: 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film with a dramatic conclusion at Mount Rushmore
14 Across: The religious system of a church founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866
15 Across: Stick man cartoon character created by Giles Andreae
16 Across: An incised die used to make a design in relief
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar
2 Down: Country whose capital is Islamabad
3 Down: The art of compiling or drawing maps or charts
4 Down: Canadian province with the largest population
5 Down: Port in Brittany that is France's chief naval station
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Saturday, November 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham
13 Across: French racing driver who achieved the first of his seven Formula One wins at the 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix
14 Across: In Greek mythology, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
15 Across: Private detective created by Raymond Chandler in the novel The Big Sleep
16 Across: A specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Fein
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1971 Mike Nichols film starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret and Candice Bergen
2 Down: Country whose capital is Suva
3 Down: Italian city on the Adige River
4 Down: The fast-growing North American maple Acer negundo
5 Down: A tapelike ornamental trim used in sewing or embroidery, often stiffened with wire
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: French Ligue 1 football club nicknamed Les Rouge-et-Bleu
14 Across: Wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books
15 Across: Lisbon-based Portuguese football club nicknamed As Águias (The Eagles)
16 Across: Youngest son of Sir Roland de Boys in Shakespeare's As You Like It
17 Across: Genus of ferns commonly known as cliff ferns
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Jessica Simpson's first studio album following her divorce from Nick Lachey, released in 2006
2 Down: Russian politician who is the only pairs skater to have won ten successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medals
3 Down: Town in NW Italy famous for its sparkling wine
4 Down: The capital of Senegal
5 Down: Prometheus ___, four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820
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Saturday, November 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Port city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
10 Across: British clergyman who invented the power loom
14 Across: Body of water between the Davis Strait and the north Atlantic Ocean
15 Across: Republic in the Atlantic whose capital is Praia
16 Across: Singing daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar whose first album was Come Away With Me
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: English actress seen as Sharon Theodopolopodous in the sitcom Birds of a Feather
2 Down: Elder of the Wright brothers of aviation history
3 Down: The lead vocalist of the boy band East 17
4 Down: A wine bottle holding the equivalent of four normal bottles
5 Down: London Underground station that, until its closure in 1994, held the distinction of being the furthest from Central London
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: American actress who won a record four Best Actress Oscars
13 Across: Overall title of several series of films written and directed by Edgar Reitz featuring life in Germany between 1919 and 2000
14 Across: Former name of Benin
15 Across: The uppermost and widest of the three sections of the hipbone
16 Across: A thick white sauce named after a steward of Louis XIV of France
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1941 novel by James Hilton
2 Down: The seat of government of the Netherlands
3 Down: Commercial and industrial city in northwestern Germany with a major port on the River Weser
4 Down: Poem by John Keats that begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
5 Down: English actor who played Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun
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