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Saturday, March 14, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Song written by Bob Merrill that gave Rosemary Clooney a UK number one hit in 1955
13 Across: A vector-based arcade video game released by Atari in 1979
15 Across: Instruction that a piece of music be played quickly, in a brisk lively manner
16 Across: The second compartment of the stomach of ruminants
17 Across: Dance whose styles include Casino and Cali-style
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Word for an odd number in roulette
2 Down: English actress whose films include The Girl on the Train, Mary Poppins Returns and Oppenheimer
3 Down: Protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories
4 Down: 1982 Top 10 hit for Kid Creole and the Coconuts
5 Down: Louis ___, French aviator and aeronautical engineer who made the first flight across the English Channel
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Saturday, March 7, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Port and resort in Campania, Italy, between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno
13 Across: English composer who wrote operettas with W S Gilbert
14 Across: Spanish surrealist artist whose works include The Persistence of Memory
15 Across: Harvey ___, American businessman who founded an eponymous 'Tire and Rubber' company in 1900
16 Across: Sicilian volcano that is the highest in Europe
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: See 44
2 Down: A book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc., to be recited daily in the Roman Catholic Church
3 Down: The first Spanish golfer to win the US Open
4 Down: Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta
6 Down: Strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz
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Saturday, February 28, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Actor whose film roles include Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park
13 Across: 1934 film starring Grace Moore as opera singer Mary Barrett
14 Across: City in Texas that was the site of the Alamo
15 Across: Otto Erich ___, Austrian music historian and art critic, noted for his catalogue of Schubert's works
16 Across: The world's longest river
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Turkish sports club based on the European side of Istanbul
2 Down: The capital of Turkey
3 Down: Sir Walter ___, the first manager of the England football team, 1946–1962
4 Down: Scottish site of a massacre of Macdonalds by Campbells and English troops in 1692
5 Down: Faint constellation on the celestial equator crossed by the Milky Way and lying close to Orion and Canis Major
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Saturday, February 21, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: The 16th president of the United States of America
13 Across: Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war
14 Across: Element of the halogen group whose atomic number is 53
15 Across: Actor best known for playing Neil in the TV series The Young Ones
16 Across: The plant Verbascum thapsus, that has woolly leaves and tall erect spikes of yellow flowers
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish river which flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Tarragona
2 Down: Largest island of French Polynesia
3 Down: Solitary leporid mammal that lives in a form
4 Down: The youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team
5 Down: Gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods
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Saturday, February 14, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: American actor who found fame in the title role of the 1960s TV show Dr Kildare
13 Across: General Motors' largest European brand
14 Across: 1998 film for which James Coburn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
15 Across: The goddess of peace in Greek mythology
16 Across: See 46 Down
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1991 Ken Loach film starring Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson
2 Down: Fomer England defender who returned to Sheffield United in 2019 after 12 years at Everton
3 Down: Davy ___, "King of the Wild Frontier" who died at the Battle of the Alamo
4 Down: The total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another
5 Down: Historical novel by Charles Dickens subtitled A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
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Saturday, February 7, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Character who marries Estella in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11 Across: Ero e ___, 1707 cantata by Handel also known after its first line as Qual ti reveggio, oh Dio
14 Across: 1965 Walt Disney film starring Hayley Mills and Dean Jones
15 Across: 1995 film starring Matt McCoy and Kelly LeBrock
16 Across: Ludwig Ritter von ___, Austrian musicologist best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The debut album by Heaven 17, released in 1981
2 Down: See 44
3 Down: City on the River Neckar whose university is the oldest in Germany
4 Down: 1933 American musical comedy film starring Janet Gaynor that is a remake of the 1931 German romantic comedy Her Grace Commands
5 Down: A person with an abnormal convex curvature of the thoracic spine
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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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