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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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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Discipline that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation
13 Across: The supreme creator god in Norse mythology
14 Across: 2002 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise, loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K Dick
15 Across: Daniel ___, Irish politician known as "The Liberator"
16 Across: Game whose British and World Championship has been held at Tinsley Green, West Sussex, every year since 1932
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Latin name for the onion genus
2 Down: 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical featuring the song Glad to Be Unhappy
3 Down: Gaeltacht village in County Mayo, Ireland, whose Gaelic name is Gob an Choire
4 Down: Association of London underwriters set up in the late 17th century
5 Down: ___ Squalor, girlfriend of Count "49 Across" in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events stories
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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: 1766 novel by Oliver Goldsmith whose central character is Dr Primrose
13 Across: 1882 play by Victorien Sardou that gave its name to a hat
14 Across: See 35
16 Across: 1666 play by Molière whose central character is Alceste
17 Across: See 12
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish football club known as Los Leones
2 Down: Ancient Athenian philosopher who was the son of Hipponicus and brother of Callias
3 Down: 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac
4 Down: US state whose capital is Augusta
5 Down: Spiral tube that forms part of the internal ear and converts sound vibrations into nerve impulses
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Writer whose only published work was Black Beauty
10 Across: French actor whose American films included Algiers, Love Affair and Gaslight
13 Across: Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest
14 Across: Department of France, in Picardy region, whose capital is Amiens
15 Across: 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1990 album by Stéphane Grappelli and McCoy Tyner
2 Down: Any brown songbird of the family Alaudidae
3 Down: The fifth book of the Old Testament
4 Down: A lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon
5 Down: Palace in Paris that is the official residence of the president of France
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Title shared by albums by Darkstar, Elvis Costello and Matchbox Twenty
11 Across: American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J Smith
13 Across: Mountain range that became part of Scotland's second national park in 2003
15 Across: Former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association who became the BBC's chief political correspondent in 1999
16 Across: The state capital of Minnesota
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The ______, nickname of Reading FC
2 Down: Fat-soluble organic compounds most of which have important physiological actions
3 Down: A member of the second order of angels, whose distinctive gift is knowledge
4 Down: The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
5 Down: Sultanate whose capital is Muscat
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Saturday, September 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Popular song by Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson, subtitled It's Later than You Think
13 Across: Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains
14 Across: The capital of Poland
15 Across: Part of the Countdown studio that houses a lexicographer and a celebrity guest
16 Across: American author whose novels included Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The occupation or study concerned with the classification of armorial bearings
2 Down: George Harrison's first single as a solo artist; the biggest-selling single in the UK in 1971
3 Down: Chemical element with the symbol Au
4 Down: The point on the celestial sphere vertically above an observer
5 Down: Feathers ___, penguin in the 1993 Nick Park animated short film The Wrong Trousers
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Saturday, September 13, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Author of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels
11 Across: A medical instrument for examining the external ear
14 Across: See 36
15 Across: See 31
16 Across: Dialect spoken in Delhi and used as a lingua franca in N India and Pakistan
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Jean-Bédel ___, emperor of the Central African Empire from 1966 until overthrown in 1979
2 Down: Open grasslands characteristic of much of tropical Africa
3 Down: Character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin
4 Down: A distinguishing badge or emblem of military rank, office or membership
5 Down: Country whose capital is Kigali
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Saturday, September 6, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: English filmmaker whose works include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita
13 Across: City in Volusia County, Florida, that is the headquarters of NASCAR and the Grand American Road Racing Association
15 Across: An ancient state in Italy north of the Tiber
16 Across: American lager first produced by Carl Conrad & Co of St. Louis, Missouri in 1876
17 Across: George Michael's third studio album, released in 1996
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: See 36 Across
3 Down: Ancient Greek city famous for its austere way of life
4 Down: Former member of Roxy Music who was one of the principal innovators of ambient music
5 Down: English drummer and founder member of The Stranglers born Brian John Duffy in 1938
6 Down: Piece of embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long depicting the Norman conquest of England
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Saturday, August 30, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The only English wicket-keeper to twice claim nine dismissals in a Test match
12 Across: Seville-based Spanish football club who won the Copa del Rey in 1977 and 2005
14 Across: Shakespears Sister's only UK number one single
15 Across: City of NW Spain, home to the country's oldest university
16 Across: 1985 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein starring Sting and Jennifer Beals
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Post traditionally rewarded with "a butt of sack"
2 Down: Lead guitarist of the band Travis
3 Down: 1960 film starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert Ivers
4 Down: Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces
5 Down: Salad plant whose varieties include TomThumb and Lollo Rosso
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