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Saturday, July 5, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Stage name of the Jamaican reggae musician and deejay born John Taylor in 1963, best known for his work with Pliers
11 Across: Arthur ___, German pessimist philosopher whose chief work is The World as Will and Idea
15 Across: County whose administrative centre is Norwich
16 Across: The harmless crystalline deposits that separate from wines during fermentation and aging
17 Across: Ancient region on the west coast of Asia Minor that was a powerful kingdom in the century and a half before the Persian conquest in 546 BC
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A shrub or herbaceous plant native to the Mediterranean region depicted on the capital of a Corinthian column
2 Down: A small butterfly of the genus Callophrys
3 Down: A dry red wine produced in the Piedmont region of Italy
4 Down: A small insectivorous lizard
5 Down: A period of five years
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Saturday, June 28, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: ITV series starring Michael Elphick in the title role
12 Across: A public declaration of policy issued by a political party
14 Across: A flightless marine bird of the order Sphenisciformes of cool southern regions
15 Across: Large historical division in the Scottish Highlands that now forms the northern part of Perth and Kinross
16 Across: Character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume and pointed hat
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: North American name for a nightjar
2 Down: The ___, the third 'Dirty Harry' film starring Clint Eastwood, released in 1976
3 Down: Italian town that was a major Mediterranean port from the 10th to the 18th century
4 Down: Subtitle of American composer John Knowles Paine's Symphony No. 2 in A major
5 Down: Ancient Egyptian god who was ruler of the underworld and judge of the dead
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Dramatic monologue written as a traditional rhyming poem by George R Sims in 1879
11 Across: The ___ period was the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods
13 Across: See 10
14 Across: 1893 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that was a sequel to Kidnapped
15 Across: Three-masted ship in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Leo Sayer hit that reached number 1 in the UK and US in 1977
2 Down: The second member of the Trimurti in Hinduism
3 Down: Civil parish in Norfolk whose Holy Trinity Church contains the only funerary effigy of its kind outside Westminster Abbey
4 Down: London nightclub opposite Smithfield meat market that was number 1 on DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs" list in 2007 and 2008
5 Down: US state whose capital is Boise
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Denmark's chief fishing port, on the North Sea in Jutland
10 Across: English indie rock band fronted by Alex Turner
13 Across: English explorer who made contact with the Wabanaki nations while attempting to find the northwest passage to India
14 Across: A clear, colourless fruit brandy produced by fermentation and double distillation
15 Across: A traditional greeting in Yorkshire and surrounding counties
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Belgian winger who joined Manchester City from Rennes in 2023
2 Down: The legal alias of the Archbishops of York
3 Down: A traditional herbal liqueur made from alpine plants of the genus Artemisia
4 Down: Former name for malarial fever
5 Down: Theme tune to the TV series Minder co-written and sung by Dennis Waterman
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Saturday, June 7, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness
12 Across: US state whose capital is Little Rock
14 Across: American group whose hit singles include Car Wash, Wishing on a Star and Love Don't Live Here Anymore
15 Across: Scottish rock band whose hit singles include Don't You (Forget About Me) and Alive and Kicking
16 Across: Fantasy world created by C S Lewis
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A thick creamy sauce made from egg yolks, oil and vinegar or lemon juice
3 Down: Italian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Tour de France twice
4 Down: 2003 single by Evanescence that reached number 7 in both the UK and US charts
5 Down: British rider who won an individual show jumping silver medal at the 1972 Olympics
6 Down: US state whose capital is Topeka
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Italian composer of operas such as Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida
11 Across: 1960s TV series, based on books by John Creasey, starring Steve Forrest as John Mannering
13 Across: A three-note chord consisting of a note and the third and fifth above it
14 Across: County whose administrative centre is Exeter
15 Across: Charles Dickens novel featuring Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: English crime writer who created detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
2 Down: Formerly, an infantryman armed with a light musket
3 Down: White Italian wine grape variety grown primarily in the Marche region of central Italy
4 Down: A predatory silk-producing arachnid of the order Araneae
5 Down: Sultanate in NW Borneo whose capital is Bandar Seri Begawan
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Bookmakers' slang for odds of 2-1
12 Across: West Yorkshire village that was home to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
13 Across: A style of singing characterised by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
14 Across: American shot putter who was 2004 Olympic men's champion
15 Across: Former Labour MP for Rochdale who was the Reform UK candidate in the 2024 Rochdale by-election
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Novel by William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island
3 Down: 16th-century oil on panel painting by Jan Sanders van Hemessen in the Prado Museum in Madrid that depicts a trepanation
4 Down: Village on the River Avon near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire
5 Down: An Italian sparkling wine named after a village near Trieste
6 Down: 1962 Agatha Christie Miss Marple story dedicated "To Margaret Rutherford, in admiration."
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Saturday, May 17, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: A type of tequila which has been aged in oak for between two months and a year, from the Spanish for 'rested'
11 Across: Japanese city that hosted the first Winter Olympics held in Asia
12 Across: The capital of Austria
13 Across: American film producer whose creations include Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
14 Across: Opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto based on a section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The 38th president of the USA
2 Down: English football team nicknamed the Valiants
3 Down: Another name for the flowering plant Oxyria digyna
4 Down: Sudden loss of consciousness caused by rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel in the brain
5 Down: Epic 1962 Western which follows four generations of a family as they move from New York state to the Pacific Ocean
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Saturday, May 10, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Minister of Transport from 1934 to 1937 who rewrote the Highway Code and introduced the driving test and a beacon at pedestrian crossings
12 Across: The seventh sign of the zodiac
14 Across: A domesticated South American cud-chewing mammal closely related to the llama
15 Across: Composer born in 1819 whose operettas include Orpheus in the Underworld
16 Across: Country whose capital is Buenos Aires
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A synthetic fibre developed at DuPont in 1965, consisting of long-chain polyamides, with a high tensile strength and temperate resistance
2 Down: A work on astronomy, compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue
3 Down: Currency that a creditor must by law accept in redemption of a debt
4 Down: A small strip of fish or chicken, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried
5 Down: The holiest city of Islam
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Saturday, May 3, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Singer who was the subject of the film Walk the Line
13 Across: US magazine founded in 1932 by David A Smart and Arnold Gingrich
14 Across: The first murder victim, according to the Old Testament
15 Across: Island off the coast of the US state of California
16 Across: A substance with a molecular structure formed from many identical small molecules or other units bonded together
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Debut album by Patti Smith, released in 1975
2 Down: The birthplace of Archimedes
3 Down: A Spanish sparkling wine similar to champagne
4 Down: Title shared by episodes of Dynasty, 30 Rock and The O.C.
5 Down: Central American country formerly called British Honduras
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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: American actor nominated for an Oscar for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo
13 Across: 1992 film starring Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Marcello Mastroianni
14 Across: Metallic element whose chemical symbol is Au
15 Across: American golfer who won the PGA Championship in 1932 and the US Open in 1934
16 Across: English progressive rock band whose keyboard player was Keith Emerson who went on to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Most famous creation of the Italian writer Carlo Collodi
2 Down: Walled city in India founded as Shahjahanabad by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639
3 Down: A mixture of olive oil and balsam used for sacramental anointing in the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches
4 Down: Danish/British author and comedienne who took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC quiz show QI in 2016
5 Down: Antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces noursei used in the treatment of fungal infections
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Saturday, April 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Carnivorous green insect that rests with the first pair of legs raised
13 Across: BBC sitcom about two Glaswegian pensioners created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill
14 Across: US state known as the Hoosier state
15 Across: Winner of the women's modern pentathlon at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
16 Across: Member of Marvel Comics' X-Men, also known as Ororo Munroe
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Two-man group comprising Bill Elliott and Bobby Purvis responsible for the 1974 hit single Costafine Town
2 Down: The branch of medicine concerned with the heart and its diseases
3 Down: The capital of Albania
4 Down: An ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland
5 Down: Bert ___, Scottish guitarist who was a founding member of Pentangle
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Pharmaceutical company who sponsored Huddersfield Town's football stadium from 2004 to 2012
12 Across: The last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales
14 Across: British romantic poet who drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Livorno to La Spezia
15 Across: Clarified butter used in Indian cookery
16 Across: Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: New Zealand filmmaker whose films include An Angel at My Table and The Piano
2 Down: A table game played with short cues in pubs
3 Down: Minor prophet in the Old Testament who had been a sheep herder and sycamore fig farmer
4 Down: One name for A A Milne's most famous creation
5 Down: Italian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Tour de France twice
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Saturday, April 5, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: A book containing systematised lists of synonyms
12 Across: Realm in J R R Tolkien's Middle-earth also referred to as Riddermark or The Mark
14 Across: A multiple race event in track cycling, first featured at the Olympic Games in 2012
15 Across: 1980 single that was Dexys Midnight Runners' first UK number one
16 Across: Noel ___, former Radio 1 DJ who became a successful TV presenter
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The fourth largest city in the Netherlands
2 Down: 2004 biographical film based on the life of Bobby Darin starring Kevin Spacey, who also co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film
3 Down: British violinist born in Singapore in 1978
4 Down: Abbreviation for a unique numeric commercial book identifier created in 1966
5 Down: White wine from the Lazio region of Italy
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Saturday, March 29, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: The North American name for swede
13 Across: Madonna's fifth studio album, released in 1992
14 Across: Railway station in London that opened in 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway
15 Across: American country singer-songwriter and actor who won Grammy Awards in 1993 and 1999
16 Across: Anaerobic bacteria that cause botulism and tetanus
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Dire Straits single originally released in May 1978
2 Down: 1953 film in which Doris Day sings The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!), The Black Hills of Dakota and Secret Love
3 Down: Flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
4 Down: 1940 Disney film consisting of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music
5 Down: A mild form of epilepsy
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