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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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Saturday, November 9, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: John the Baptist's father
12 Across: Popular song by Michael Edwards and Bud Green that has been recorded by Tommy Dorsey, Patti Page and The Chimes, among others
14 Across: A top ten hit single for The Who in 1965
15 Across: Former England cricket captain who also played football for Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United
16 Across: English cricketer best known for captaining the English team during the 1932–33 'Bodyline' Ashes tour of Australia
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: European country that existed from October 1918 to January 1993
2 Down: A pictorial representation of a facility on a computer system
3 Down: Mineral that is the chief source of lead
4 Down: Willo the ___, TV cartoon series narrated by Kenneth Williams featuring the characters Mavis Cruet and Evil Edna
5 Down: Scottish snooker player who won the first of his four world titles in 1998
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: American international centre-back who left Fulham for Charlotte FC in August
11 Across: University city in central Germany on the river Saale
12 Across: 1993 film starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry
14 Across: Winners of football's European Championships in 1976
15 Across: Amorphous mineral that is a source of iron
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Type of restaurant, the oldest of which still operating today was founded in Naples in 1738
2 Down: An eight-legged invertebrate animal in the subphylum Chelicerata
3 Down: The capital of the former province of West Pakistan
4 Down: The basic SI unit of thermodynamic temperature
5 Down: The large Eurasian passerine bird Corvus monedula
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Country in the SW Pacific whose capital is Port Moresby
13 Across: A traditional Jewish school devoted chiefly to the study of rabbinic literature and the Talmud
14 Across: Swedish actress whose films include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat and The Artist's Wife
15 Across: Epic poem by Walter Scott that contains the lines "Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive!"
16 Across: African country whose capital is Luanda
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The North American name for swede
2 Down: See 43
3 Down: Australian river that rises as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flows to the Indian Ocean below Perth
4 Down: Heavily-built short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions
5 Down: Crete-born physician to Nero who left instructions for making theriac, a compound medicine and antidote, in a poem
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement
12 Across: 1959 British film based on a novel of the same name by John Braine
13 Across: 1965 American Civil War film starring James Stewart, Doug McClure and Katherine Ross
14 Across: English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, 1937-57, with a batting average of 50.06
15 Across: Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Robert J ___, American filmmaker who directed and produced the 1922 documentary film Nanook of the North
2 Down: American singer best known for his 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now
3 Down: City in Michigan that was the birthplace of General Motors
4 Down: 1980 single by Motörhead that spent 12 weeks in the UK Singles Chart
5 Down: In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife
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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: English inventor who founded the toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908
12 Across: An atom or group of atoms containing at least one unpaired electron and existing for a brief period of time before reacting to produce a stable molecule
14 Across: A mature female elephant, whale or seal
15 Across: Francis ___, French painter and poet associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements
16 Across: Billie ___, singer and actress who played Rose Tyler in the TV series Doctor Who
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Former member of Marine Girls who became one half of Everything but the Girl
2 Down: 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band
3 Down: 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by Little
4 Down: Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934
5 Down: American TV quiz show in which contestants are presented with answers and must phrase their responses in question form
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: 1984 novel by Milan Kundera
14 Across: 1974 satirical Western written and directed by Mel Brooks
15 Across: TV Western series that featured the Cartwright family
16 Across: In psychoanalysis, the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious
17 Across: Name adopted by the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1972
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: US state whose capital is Columbus
2 Down: 1992 Woody Allen film featuring Judy Davis and Liam Neeson
3 Down: The leading division or units of a military force
4 Down: English critic, wit, and caricaturist whose works include Zuleika Dobson
5 Down: McFly's best-selling single
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Saturday, September 28, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang
11 Across: Singer and actor who married Nancy Barbato, Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow
13 Across: BBC TV drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980
14 Across: Harold ___, 1924 Olympic 100m champion depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire
15 Across: 1999 American teen romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger, loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: County known as "The Garden of England"
2 Down: Department of France whose capital is Mezieres
3 Down: Slovenian town that hosted the World Rowing Championships for the fourth time in 2011
4 Down: American sports channel owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications
5 Down: Play by Victoria Wood first performed in 1978
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Saturday, September 21, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley
10 Across: The plant Convallaria majalis, which has spikes of white bell-shaped flowers
14 Across: The sixth book in the Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves
15 Across: 1969 film by Federico Fellini, loosely based on Petronius's work of the same name
16 Across: A climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Country whose capital is Baku
2 Down: Language almost identical to Hindi in basic structure and grammar
3 Down: Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes
4 Down: Christian festival celebrated on November 1
5 Down: See 39
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works include Songs of Innocence and of Experience
8 Across: Journey of the type that brings the characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales together
13 Across: Oratorio by William Walton first performed in 1931
14 Across: Caretaker of Hogwarts in J K Rowling's Harry Potter stories
15 Across: The ancient Roman name for the Isle of Wight
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: The ancient Greek goddess of peace
3 Down: See 54
4 Down: Actor whose films include Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer and Punch-Drunk Love
5 Down: Anti-tank weapon named after a musical instrument popularised in the 1930s by radio comedian Bob Burns
6 Down: City in Ohio nicknamed "Rubber Capital of the World"
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Saturday, September 7, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Playwright whose works include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
13 Across: Actress who played Debs in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly
14 Across: The capital of Sardinia
15 Across: A column of rising air used by gliders to gain height
16 Across: TV sitcom of the 1980s set in the fictional Maplins holiday camp
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: US sitcom whose guest stars have included Hillary Clinton, Adam Levine and Shania Twain
2 Down: King of Macedonia who was the father of Alexander the Great
3 Down: 1844 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on a play by Victor Hugo
4 Down: With Atropos and Lachesis, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology
5 Down: Character created by David McKee for several children's books and an animated TV series on the BBC
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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Actress who played Sabrina Duncan in the TV series Charlie's Angels
13 Across: A fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountain
14 Across: Department of southwestern France whose cities include Lourdes
15 Across: Very large oval Indian diamond that has been part of the British crown jewels since 1849
16 Across: Another name for the papaya
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A sea bird of the family Stercorariidae
2 Down: A large, four-legged walking robot introduced in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back
3 Down: A person who divines, especially by crystal gazing
4 Down: A person who values property for taxation
5 Down: A method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire image
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