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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: BBC One TV series that is the second revival of the original 1992 series on ITV
13 Across: The plant Campanula rapunculus, which has an edible white tuberous root used in salads
14 Across: The second son of Adam and Eve
15 Across: 1897 play by Edmond Rostand based on the life of a French dramatist and duellist
16 Across: A polyphonic choral composition used as an anthem in the Roman Catholic service
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: American thrash metal band formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman
2 Down: Notorious English pirate better known as Blackbeard
3 Down: The second largest city in Pakistan
4 Down: The capital of Denmark
5 Down: Oscar-winning actor best known for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian and actor whose signature tune was The Very Thought of You
13 Across: 1961 number one single by Johnny Tillotson
14 Across: The human product of conception up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy
15 Across: A purée of onions mixed into a thick white sauce
16 Across: 1997 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as lawyer Fletcher Reed
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: British publishing company founded in London in 1843 by two brothers from the Isle of Arran
2 Down: The Lunar module of the 1969 Apollo 12 mission
3 Down: An official periodic count of a population
4 Down: English rock group best known for the song China in Your Hand
5 Down: Astrological star-sign represented by the twins
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial form from 1873 to 1877
13 Across: American actress whose films include Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story
14 Across: In architecture, a moulding having a cross section in the form of a letter S
15 Across: English singer and actress who originated the roles of Eva Perón in Evita and Grizabella in Cats
16 Across: A hat made of the plaited leaves of the jipijapa plant
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: TV presenter and journalist best known for co-presenting Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond
2 Down: The largest city in New Jersey
3 Down: Member of an aristocratic English family who married Sir Oswald Mosley at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honour
4 Down: The surrounding embankments of a fort
5 Down: Brazilian tennis player who won the first of her three ladies' singles titles at Wimbledon in 1959
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Saturday, February 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Unit of capacity in the oil industry equal to 35 Imperial gallons
13 Across: Tropical American plant, some species of which are the source of sisal and tequila
14 Across: Argentine footballer whose rabona for "27 Down" in the North London derby won the 2021 FIFA Puskás Award as the best goal of the year
15 Across: Song written by Mac Davis, originally titled The Vicious Circle, that was a hit for Elvis Presley in 1969
16 Across: The southern school of Buddhism, literally "the teaching of the elders"
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Fruit, also known as sarda in southeast Asia, developed in Israel
2 Down: In music, a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve
3 Down: Italian novelist and short-story writer whose works include The Woman of Rome
4 Down: East Sussex town whose Devonshire Park has been the venue for a pre-Wimbledon tennis tournament since 1974
5 Down: English progressive rock band, founded in 1969, best known for the song Sympathy
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Saturday, January 25, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Aromatic shrub that is the traditional flower of remembrance
12 Across: Children's novel by American author E B White featuring a pig named Wilbur
14 Across: Common name for the perennial flowering tree Parkinsonia aculeata
15 Across: Landlocked country in the Pyrenees between France and Spain
16 Across: Commercial association of towns in northern Germany formed in the mid-14th century to protect and control trade
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Single by Fern Kinney that reached number one in the UK singles chart in March 1980
2 Down: Gustave Flaubert's first published novel
3 Down: The most populous town on the Isle of Wight
4 Down: Substance that gives vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell
5 Down: Daughter of Herodias who called for the head of John the Baptist
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Cantata composed by Carl Orff based on 24 medieval poems
13 Across: The Quiet ___, 1955 Graham Greene novel set in Vietnam
14 Across: Psychopathic assassin played by Jodie Comer in Killing Eve
15 Across: 1984 number one single by Lionel Richie
16 Across: An early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two people played with a reduced deck
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Chinese text also called the Book of Changes
2 Down: Joanna ___, English novelist whose books include The Rector's Wife
3 Down: See 4
4 Down: French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style
5 Down: Another name for alfalfa
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: A disease of the eye in which pressure within the eyeball damages the optic disc
12 Across: Popular song by George and Ira Gershwin originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta entitled East is West
14 Across: 1915 novel by W Somerset Maugham that begins with the death of Helen Carey
15 Across: The innermost of the three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
16 Across: The capital of Qatar
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Japanese city whose Honda-owned racetrack is the only figure-eight circuit in the Formula 1 championship
2 Down: 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger based on the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
3 Down: English critic, wit, and caricaturist whose works include Zuleika Dobson
4 Down: See 51
5 Down: Online social networking service founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard University students
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The 16th president of the United States of America
12 Across: Horse that won the 1954 Grand National
13 Across: Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo
14 Across: Actor who played "Ted" Theodore Logan in the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
15 Across: Nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A system of apophony or vowel gradation, especially in Indo-European languages
2 Down: Region of southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula
3 Down: English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward
4 Down: Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest
5 Down: Common name for the New Zealand nettle Urtica ferox
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Saturday, December 28, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Comedy partner of Stan Laurel
13 Across: The ___, nickname of Tottenham Hotspur FC
14 Across: Rock band founded by Peter Green in 1967
15 Across: Former world heavyweight boxing champion whose nickname was 'The Fighting Marine'
16 Across: Tropical evergreen tree, ‘Indian date' in Arabic, bearing yellow flowers and brown seedpods
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: English rock band who had top ten hits with Achilles Heel and Dancing in the Moonlight
2 Down: Winner of the 1958 Formula One World Championship
3 Down: Defender who joined Arsenal from Brighton & Hove Albion in 2021
4 Down: In the Scottish Episcopal Church, the presiding bishop in the Synod
5 Down: Member of a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae
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Saturday, December 21, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: 1960 comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, partly inspired by a book of the same name by Jean Kerr
13 Across: Until 1917, emperor of Russia
14 Across: Fragrant resin obtained from tropical trees, such as those of the family Burseraceae
15 Across: English actor who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films
16 Across: American actor whose films include Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and The Piano
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi originally titled Violetta, after the main character
2 Down: The umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable
3 Down: Animated hero, created by Elzie Segar, who first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929
4 Down: The capital of The Gambia
5 Down: Chile's first president
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Saturday, December 14, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Major prophet of Judah known as the 'weeping prophet'
11 Across: Scottish actor whose films include Trainspotting, The Full Monty and Angela's Ashes
14 Across: German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist whose best-known children's book is Emil and the Detectives
15 Across: The final opera by Richard Strauss
16 Across: American singer-songwriter and political activist best known for her songs Little Boxes and Morningtown Ride
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The last UK top ten hit for Herman's Hermits, from 1970
2 Down: 1997 Disney film based on Greek mythology
3 Down: Maincrop potato variety originally imported to the UK from France in 1850
4 Down: Units in which electrical resistance is measured
5 Down: Novel by Mary Shelley subtitled The Modern Prometheus
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tiny girl
12 Across: 1983 single by Joan Armatrading that was her only US hit
14 Across: A street in Jerusalem believed to be the path that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion
15 Across: 2024 Gary Dauberman film based on a 1975 novel by Stephen King
16 Across: Mediterranean plant whose young leaves have a cucumber-like flavour and are sometimes used in salads
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: British range that includes Windy Gyle, Bloodybush Edge and Carlin Tooth
2 Down: American actress whose films include American Hustle, Big Eyes and Arrival
3 Down: Donkey in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A A Milne
4 Down: The Gay ___, 1934 American musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
5 Down: 2004 film starring Jon Heder in the title role
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Saturday, November 30, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Tunisian-born Italian actress whose films include The Leopard and The Pink Panther
13 Across: In France and some other European countries, a duty on various goods brought into certain towns or cities
14 Across: The only member of the Monty Python team born outside Britain
15 Across: Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti
16 Across: 1963 film about a bottlenose dolphin
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: River originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia
2 Down: Town in Spain whose destruction 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War was depicted in a Picasso painting
3 Down: Asian republic at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula established as a British trading post in 1819
4 Down: English electronic dance music duo consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll
5 Down: American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer best known for the 1972 hit song Why Can't We Live Together
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Saturday, November 23, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: An extended essay by Virginia Woolf first published in 1929
13 Across: Genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae also known as gambier or cat's claw
14 Across: Nickname of Buford Tannen, played by Thomas F Wilson in the film Back to the Future Part III
15 Across: A yearly calendar giving statistical information
16 Across: British model who designed collections of clothes for Topshop in 2007 and 2014
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Croatian name for Croatia
2 Down: The ideal moderate position between two extremes
3 Down: Pip's brother-in-law in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4 Down: Country whose capital is Warsaw
5 Down: Dog also called an Alsatian
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Saturday, November 16, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: 1952 American musical comedy film featuring the characters Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown and Lina Lamont
12 Across: Island in the Inner Hebrides that is the site of Fingal's Cave
14 Across: Japanese golfer whose real first name is Masashi
15 Across: The tallest structure in Africa between 1961 and 1971
16 Across: The mafia's conspiracy of silence
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Morbid fear of cats
2 Down: A former Indian copper coin, worth one sixteenth of a rupee
3 Down: Daughter to Simonides and Pericles' wife in the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre
4 Down: Country whose capital is Suva
5 Down: Popular song from Mary Poppins, composed by Robert B Sherman and Richard M Sherman
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