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Saturday, August 23, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: American actor, screenwriter, director and producer who was a founding member of United Artists
12 Across: 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a systems analyst
13 Across: Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer and pioneer of afrobeat music who died in 1997
14 Across: Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934
15 Across: An expression of language such as simile or metaphor
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Film listed by the American Film Institute in 2000 as the greatest American comedy film of all time
3 Down: Michelle ___, American actress and singer whose films include Dangerous Liaisons and The Fabulous Baker Boys
4 Down: Political organisation and army that fought the US and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War
5 Down: A short passage, usually from the Bible, recited or sung as a response after certain parts of a liturgical service
6 Down: Certain settings on a camera
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Monday, August 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: South African region on the Indian Ocean whose chief town is Eshowe
12 Across: Italian painter and architect whose paintings include the Sistine Madonna
14 Across: Members of a group of French painters that included Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain
15 Across: Small triangular pastries whose name is Russian for 'little pies'
16 Across: British naval commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Asian tree whose fruit has an offensive smell but a pleasant taste
2 Down: House on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borders built for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam
3 Down: Biblical city of the Philistine from which Goliath came
4 Down: English film director whose films include Flashdance, Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal
5 Down: Plant whose varieties are pollinated by different insects
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Saturday, August 16, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Coastal town in North Somerset on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the headquarters of Avon and Somerset Constabulary
10 Across: 1991 film with Rik Mayall in the title role
15 Across: The county town of County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland
16 Across: See 50
17 Across: Rodolphe ___, Swiss chocolate manufacturer who invented the conching machine and other processes to improve the quality of chocolate
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Greek philosopher who held that the highest good is pleasure
2 Down: Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid
3 Down: Michael Jackson single that topped the US and UK charts simultaneously in 1983
4 Down: 1968 film in which Tony Curtis starred as Albert DeSalvo
5 Down: Bird to which the adjective psittacine relates
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Saturday, August 9, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: American rock band formed in 1969, best known for their association with Neil Young
12 Across: Greyish-brown omnivorous American mammal with a black facial mask and a ringed tail
14 Across: Annual Asian plant, Cannabis sativa, whose tough fibres are used to make canvas and rope
15 Across: Classic 1971 track from The Doors album LA Woman, used by their drummer John Densmore as the title of his autobiography
16 Across: The capital of Poland
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books
2 Down: Country whose capital is Tashkent
3 Down: 1881 play by Henrik Ibsen whose original Danish title is Gengangere
4 Down: The muse of astronomy in Greek mythology and a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne
5 Down: The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: A cross section of an aileron, wing, tailplane or rotor blade
12 Across: The greyish-brown larva of certain craneflies, especially of the genus Tipula
14 Across: The North American plant Polemonium caeruleum
15 Across: The garden in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion
16 Across: In Greek mythology, an Athenian architect who made wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee Crete
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: City in Afghanistan on the Hari Rud River
2 Down: US state whose capital is Denver
3 Down: The secret intelligence service of Israel
4 Down: A heavy powerful breed of carthorse, originally from Scotland
5 Down: The capital of Croatia
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: 1934 Cole Porter musical set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London
11 Across: American actor whose films include Drugstore Cowboy, Beautiful Girls and Crash
14 Across: A 1991 film starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin
15 Across: A small insectivorous terrestrial lizard of warm regions
16 Across: American comedian who wrote the screenplay of the 1992 film Peter's Friends, in which she also acted, with her husband Martin Bergman
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Hospital-based sitcom that starred starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli and Richard Wilson
2 Down: American author and journalist to whom Salman Rushdie dedicated his 2008 novel The Enchantress of Florence
3 Down: In J K Rowling's Harry Potter stories, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Tom Riddle's diary, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Harry Potter and Nagini
4 Down: 2004 album by Green Day following the life of a character called Jesus of Suburbia
5 Down: Inflammation of the ear
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Saturday, July 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: The third largest city in Italy
12 Across: Opening track on The Beatles' album Rubber Soul
13 Across: Former province of France that belonged to England from 1154 to 1204
15 Across: The cheapest accommodation on a passenger ship
16 Across: BBC sci-fi series first broadcast in 1963
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1664 comedy by Molière
2 Down: 1959 Walt Disney film based on the fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
3 Down: A cutting tool with an arched blade set at right angles to the handle
4 Down: Former tourist attraction in Berkshire that has been converted into a Legoland
5 Down: 1965 hit single by Fontella Bass
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:7 Across: Town in Bavaria that was the site of a Nazi concentration camp
10 Across: The third largest toy company in the United States when it was bought by Mattel in 1997
11 Across: Eurasian liliaceous plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten
13 Across: TV series that began in 1966, following the crew of the starship Enterprise
14 Across: 1998 film starring Robert De Niro and Jean Reno
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A dry Polish vodka that is distilled from rye and flavoured with a tincture of bison grass
2 Down: The technical name for scarlet fever
4 Down: A burrowing rodent of the genus Citellus also called a gopher
5 Down: Malarial fever with successive stages of fever and chills
6 Down: See 8
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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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