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Saturday, July 11, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: 1986 fantasy film starring Christopher Lambert in the title role that spawned further films and several series
12 Across: Finding by a coroner's jury of death without stating the cause
15 Across: Heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with linseed oil
16 Across: City in British Columbia that is Canada's chief Pacific port
17 Across: An ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Horse that won the Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1971
2 Down: The concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power in Hinduism
3 Down: American actor whose films include The Purple Rose of Cairo, Do the Right Thing and Ruby
4 Down: French New Wave film director whose works include Jules et Jim and Le Dernier Metro
5 Down: Pat ___, Welsh spin bowler who played 25 Test matches for the England cricket team between 1968 and 1985
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Saturday, July 4, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: English actress and former singer whose real first name is Leian
13 Across: The ___ of the Long Distance Runner, 1959 short story by Alan Sillitoe, adapted for a 1962 film of the same name starring Tom Courtenay
14 Across: A highly saturated green-blue that is the complementary colour of red
15 Across: Duran Duran's second UK number one single
16 Across: Name given to several creatures, including Bassariscus astutus, which inhabits arid northern Mexico and the American Southwest
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Johnny Cash's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
2 Down: Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889
3 Down: Nickname of Roy William Harper Jr as the teen sidekick of the superheroes Green Arrow and Black Canary
4 Down: Spongy vascular organ situated near the stomach
5 Down: Historic town located in County Wicklow whose name means "the great estuary"
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Saturday, June 27, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Nihilistic artistic movement that took its name from a French children's word for hobbyhorse
11 Across: British writer whose children's books include The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children
13 Across: The opening track of The Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers
14 Across: Irish dancer and actress who became mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld
15 Across: English actor and singer who played the title role in the original London production of Jesus Christ Superstar
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: 1951 play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's novel Goodbye to Berlin
3 Down: A monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhere
4 Down: County known as 'The Garden of England'
5 Down: The stirrup-shaped bone that is the innermost of three small bones in the middle ear
6 Down: Liverpudlian comedian on whose life Bradley Cooper's 2025 film Is This Thing On? is loosely based
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Saturday, June 20, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: US state whose capital is Phoenix
13 Across: 1932 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho plays Quincy Adams Wagstaff
14 Across: Blondie number one single that is the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo
15 Across: Country whose capital is Kyiv
16 Across: In the Old Testament, one of the "cities of the plain" destroyed by God, along with Sodom and two others
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Toxic metallic element with the atomic number 23
2 Down: English musician and record producer best known for his work on Madonna's 1998 album Ray of Light
3 Down: The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist
4 Down: Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl Marx
5 Down: 1937 film starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Song and dance number from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
13 Across: An old form of poker
14 Across: Mickey Mouse's pet dog, created in 1930
15 Across: Porridge made from boiled cornmeal that originated with the Native American Muskogee tribe
16 Across: Brand name for the drug Sildenafil citrate
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: The fourth largest city in the Netherlands
3 Down: A score of two under par for a hole in golf
4 Down: A rich velouté sauce made with a base of veal or chicken stock and cream or egg yolks
5 Down: Flap of tissue that hangs in the back of the throat
6 Down: German novelist whose works include the novella Death in Venice
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Saturday, June 6, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: US state whose capital is Phoenix
13 Across: Conservation organisation founded in 1895
14 Across: The doctrine that the morally correct course of action consists in the greatest good for the greatest number
15 Across: The bushy leguminous plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its edible seeds
16 Across: The Pope's tiara
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The Listeners
2 Down: An imaginary country of tiny inhabitants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
3 Down: The second-largest city in Canada
4 Down: Vienna-born psychiatrist considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology alongside Melanie Klein
5 Down: Category-A listed building in Ayrshire that was the birthplace of John Dalrymple
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Irish singer whose UK hit singles include Walk Tall and Elusive Butterfly
11 Across: Plant also called the African lily
13 Across: The maple genus of trees
14 Across: Great salmon river that forms the border between Scotland and England along part of its route
15 Across: Synthetic medical stimulant known as speed
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford that lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire
2 Down: Political entity in pre-Hispanic Mexico whose capital city was Tollan-Xicocotitlan
3 Down: The fourth-longest river in Europe, known to the Greeks as the Borysthenes
4 Down: Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36
5 Down: 1979 single by The Sugarhill Gang generally considered to be the song that first popularised hip hop in the United States and around the world
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: English Romantic painter known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale
11 Across: West Country dialect word for spring onions
14 Across: See 50
15 Across: Derek ___, former England spin bowler nicknamed "Deadly"
16 Across: A broad-faced grinding tooth
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Actor who played writer Holly Martins in The Third Man
2 Down: 1958 film starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, based on the play Kind Sir by Norman Krasna
3 Down: The first British club to win a major European trophy
4 Down: 1992 horror film, based on the short story The Forbidden by Clive Barker, that was scored by Philip Glass
5 Down: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on a play by Antonio García Gutiérrez
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Saturday, May 16, 2026
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 fairy servant to Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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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 38
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Saturday, May 9, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Leader of Solidarity who won the 1983 Nobel peace prize
12 Across: The world's first virtual mobile network, acquired by Vodafone in 1996
14 Across: Small port in NE Libya taken from the Italians by the British in January 1941
15 Across: In Norse mythology, a dwarf who possessed a treasure hoard, which was stolen by Loki
16 Across: Singer who had a top ten hit with Stop! in 1989
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Roman emperor born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
2 Down: Richard Brinsley ___, Irish dramatist whose works include The Rivals and School for Scandal
3 Down: The very large plankton-eating fish Cetorhinus maximus, also called a sailfish
4 Down: English writer best known for The Darling Buds of May
5 Down: Small marine fish of the herring family, widely caught for food and fish products
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Saturday, May 2, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: American poet and painter whose first names were Edward Estlin
13 Across: The common plant Bellis perennis
14 Across: Athletic footwear and apparel company founded in Bolton in 1958
15 Across: Brand name for paraffin whose TV advertising included a rewritten version of the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
16 Across: Burmese-born singer best known for fronting Bow Wow Wow
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Postman Pat's black-and-white cat
2 Down: Memoir by Isak Dinesen, nom de plume of Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke
3 Down: Tobias ___, Scottish novelist, whose picaresque satires include Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle and Humphry Clinker
4 Down: In the Old Testament, the fifth son of Jacob by his wife Leah
5 Down: Italian city in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region that hosted the 2025 Uefa Super Cup
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Saturday, April 25, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Roman procurator of Judaea who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus
12 Across: The common European bird Pyrrhula pyrrhula
14 Across: The first woman, according to the Old Testament
15 Across: A short piece of instrumental music that is improvisatory
16 Across: Port in Liguria that is the chief naval base in Italy
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Novel by Harper Lee published in July 2015
2 Down: British art rock band whose albums include Friend's Friend's Friend and The House on the Hill
3 Down: Brass instrument pitched in E flat developed in the 1840s by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax
4 Down: British pop group whose hit singles include Deeper Shade of Blue and Stomp
5 Down: Grooved wheels that have a rope or cable threaded between them in a block and tackle
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Saturday, April 18, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Italian mathematician who popularised the decimal system in Europe
12 Across: Genus of plants in which the flowers are produced in a spadix surrounded by a spathe
13 Across: Dutch actor who played replicant Roy Batty in the 1982 film Blade Runner
14 Across: Four crotchet beats to the bar in music
15 Across: English composer whose 32 symphonies include the large-scale Gothic Symphony
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: English theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the RSC for 13 years
2 Down: Small biting insect commonly found near stagnant water
3 Down: Amphibian of the family Hylidae with long toes ending in adhesive discs which assist in climbing
4 Down: In the Old Testament, Moses' successor who led the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan
5 Down: Play by Alfred Jarry that opened and closed in Paris on December 10, 1896
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that lives attached to rocks, ship bottoms, etc
10 Across: Name to which Brad's Drink was changed in 1898
12 Across: Scottish word for a church, especially one of the Church of Scotland
13 Across: Song about the Polish Solidarity movement released as the lead single from U2's 1983 album War
14 Across: 1677 play by John Dryden subtitled The World Well Lost
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1945 novel by John Steinbeck set on a street in Monterey
2 Down: Coriolanus ___, ruler of Panem and the main antagonist in The Hunger Games series of novels
3 Down: In law, a person who incites someone to commit a crime or assists the perpetrator
4 Down: 1986 book, derived from material from the unpublished diaries of Anaïs Nin, on which a 1990 film was based
5 Down: Leonardo ___, American actor whose middle name is Wilhelm
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Saturday, April 4, 2026
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Star-studded 2006 film based on a 1997 George Plimpton book about Truman Capote
12 Across: English novelist and critic whose novels include A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers
14 Across: The brightest star in the constellation Lyra
15 Across: Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen
16 Across: A dance in which a person may take another's partner
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Well-known song from the musical The Pajama Game recorded by Doris Day, Harry Connick, Jr, and others
2 Down: The Eurasian plant Oxalis acetosella
3 Down: A member of the predominant ethnic group of Hungary
4 Down: Small, slender, carnivorous mammal closely related to the weasel
5 Down: The capital of Denmark
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