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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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Saturday, August 24, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: A million millionth of a second
13 Across: Musical instrument that is played by the wind
14 Across: Woolworths heiress whose seven husbands included German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm
15 Across: Traditional bat-and-ball game on which baseball is based
16 Across: American actor, comedian and director seen as Maxwell Smart in the sitcom Get Smart
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay, famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods
2 Down: Crystal silicate mineral, the most common species of which is schorl
3 Down: A large vein that conveys oxygen-depleted blood to the heart
4 Down: The capital of Qatar
5 Down: US critic, noted especially for Axel's Castle, a study of the symbolist movement
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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The first President of the Palestinian National Authority
12 Across: 1964 musical based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers
14 Across: English actress who made her Broadway debut in 1929 in the American première of Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet
15 Across: Sir Michael ___, English composer whose works include the operas The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam and The Knot Garden
16 Across: The Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom, associated with Mercury
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: American actor whose films include Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and The Piano
2 Down: Chelsea's all-time leading goalscorer, with 211 goals in all competitions
3 Down: 1977 film about a killer whale starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling
4 Down: Plant also known as sea lavender
5 Down: Oscar-nominated 1993 film written and directed by Jane Campion
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Saturday, August 10, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: English actress seen as Little Mo Mitchell in EastEnders and Cathy Keating in Grantchester
12 Across: A type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent form or version
14 Across: A circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, used since 609 AD as a Christian church
15 Across: Dance originating in Brazil exemplified by the 1964 Getz/Gilberto single The Girl From Ipanema
16 Across: The capital of Greenland, whose Danish name is Godthab
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: County known as 'the garden of England'
2 Down: Former Labour Cabinet member nicknamed "the Iron Chipmunk" by Fraser Nelson, writing in The Spectator
3 Down: See 7
4 Down: Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid
5 Down: 1988 film for which Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar
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Saturday, August 3, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Nickname of François Duvalier, repressive President of Haiti from 1957-1971
11 Across: A salad of shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, carrots, onions, etc
13 Across: Tom ___, American golfer who won the Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1996
15 Across: Welsh rock band whose hits include Maybe Tomorrow and Dakota
16 Across: A surrounding area or region
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon
2 Down: BBC classical music quiz chaired by Joseph Cooper from 1966
3 Down: Character in the TV series Callan played by Russell Hunter
4 Down: Loch ___, the largest Scottish lake
5 Down: A red-skinned potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Horse that won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977
5 Across: The capital of Nova Scotia
9 Across: Mike Leigh play that opened at the Hampstead Theatre in April 1977
13 Across: The capital of the state of Bavaria, on the Isar River
14 Across: The chief port of Spain
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae to which the leaf vegetable rocket belongs
3 Down: Another name for a pluviometer
4 Down: The second most populous state in India after Uttar Pradesh
5 Down: Play by Harold Brighouse set in Salford in 1880
6 Down: Small constellation containing the star Vega
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Saturday, July 20, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Actress best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels
11 Across: Actor who played Captain Renault in the 1942 film Casablanca
14 Across: Comedian and actor whose TV roles include playing Jimmy Savile in the BBC One series The Reckoning
15 Across: Horse that won the 1958 Derby
16 Across: The brightest star in the constellation Virgo
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: ___ & Dave, musical duo whose surnames are Hodges and Peacock
2 Down: Furniture item for use when praying
3 Down: Texan scene of a 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel
4 Down: Tempo marking indicating that music is to be played slowly
5 Down: American actress who won Emmy awards for playing Jill Brock in the TV series Picket Fences
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Saturday, July 13, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Singer in All Saints who was a contestant on Celebrity Race Across the World
13 Across: Eric Carmen song from the film Dirty Dancing that was a top ten hit in the US
14 Across: Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
15 Across: 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Raj Quartet
16 Across: Detective created by G K Chesterton
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Belgian surrealist artist whose works include The Treachery of Images
2 Down: A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus cultivated for its edible root
3 Down: Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti
4 Down: Beatles album with an iconic cover featuring a zebra crossing
5 Down: A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: The fibre of the abaca plant
13 Across: Phil Collins's second US No. 1 single, following Against All Odds
14 Across: Gadoid food fish of the genus Merluccius
15 Across: Girl group whose hits include Never Ever and Pure Shores
16 Across: Whiskey distilled from a mash of corn, malt and rye, aged in charred oak barrels
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1971 Woody Allen comedy, set in the fictional republic of San Marcos
2 Down: 1990 film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name
3 Down: South Korean film that won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bong Joon-ho
4 Down: Actor who played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind
5 Down: The capital and largest city of Samoa
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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Bristol-born writer, comedian and actor whose TV series include The Outlaws, which he co-created with Elgin James
12 Across: 1973 hit single for David Bowie, a cover of a song first recorded by the McCoys
13 Across: 1991 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
14 Across: Painting by Lord Frederic Leighton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a woman leaning against a Doric column
15 Across: Borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, famous for its beach
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Oceanid in Greek mythology who was the mother of Acragas by Zeus
2 Down: Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
3 Down: Long-tailed gallinaceous bird of the family Phasianidae
4 Down: Swedish boxer who defeated Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship in 1959
5 Down: American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a number one hit with Runaway in 1961
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Saturday, June 22, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: All-rounder took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut, with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies in 1995
10 Across: Actor invoved in a fatal shooting incident on the set of the film Rust
14 Across: Small town in the Roman province of Britannia that became Bath
15 Across: 1956 Elvis Presley hit adapted from the Civil War ballad Aura Lee
16 Across: Former captain of the England rugby union team and the British Lions who became a captain on the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: "Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha" in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes
2 Down: 1871 opera by Verdi commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt
3 Down: A type of pale beer with a strong flavour of hops, originally brewed in the Czech Republic
4 Down: The largest inland city in California
5 Down: Fortress in Paris stormed on 14 July 1789 during the French Revolution
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Saturday, June 15, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: The nontechnical name for the scapula
13 Across: See 29
14 Across: England football manager 1990–1993
15 Across: England football manager 1963–1974
16 Across: In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the wife of Caesar, whose dream predicts her husband's death
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea
2 Down: Society founded by the Reverend Tubby Clayton in 1919
3 Down: Boulder on the coast of Massachusetts traditionally thought to be the landing place of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620
4 Down: A dental appliance for holding a loose tooth or prosthetic device in position
5 Down: Max ___, former world heavyweight boxing champion whose son played Jethro Bodine in The Beverly Hillbillies
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Saturday, June 8, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Hawaiian boxer who beat England's Terry Allen in 1950 become World flyweight champion
12 Across: Theodore ___, American poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book The Waking
13 Across: BBC sitcom written by Carla Lane that starred Felicity Kendal as Gemma Palmer
14 Across: English dramatist, poet and translator whose plays include Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta
15 Across: A domed or vaulted semicircular or polygonal recess, especially at the east end of a church
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Very fine soft wool from long-haired Asian goats
2 Down: Italian language opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart whose libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte
3 Down: Annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection
4 Down: 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey adapted into a film starring Burt Lancaster
5 Down: English comedian, actor and writer whose comedy partner is David Mitchell
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Saturday, June 1, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: The quantity of liquid lost from a container due to leakage or evaporation
11 Across: Italian composer whose works include the suites The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome
14 Across: American actor whose films include Some Like It Hot, Spartacus and The Boston Strangler
15 Across: Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in 1879
16 Across: See 27
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino
2 Down: A subatomic particle with a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton
3 Down: 1988 film starring Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell
4 Down: Diminutive hero of several English folk tales whose name was used by Charles Stratton in P T Barnum's circus
5 Down: American soul singer who died in a plane crash a month before his biggest hit, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, was released
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