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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Discipline that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation
13 Across: The supreme creator god in Norse mythology
14 Across: 2002 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise, loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K Dick
15 Across: Daniel ___, Irish politician known as "The Liberator"
16 Across: Game whose British and World Championship has been held at Tinsley Green, West Sussex, every year since 1932
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Latin name for the onion genus
2 Down: 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical featuring the song Glad to Be Unhappy
3 Down: Gaeltacht village in County Mayo, Ireland, whose Gaelic name is Gob an Choire
4 Down: Association of London underwriters set up in the late 17th century
5 Down: ___ Squalor, girlfriend of Count "49 Across" in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events stories
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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: 1766 novel by Oliver Goldsmith whose central character is Dr Primrose
13 Across: 1882 play by Victorien Sardou that gave its name to a hat
14 Across: See 35
16 Across: 1666 play by Molière whose central character is Alceste
17 Across: See 12
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish football club known as Los Leones
2 Down: Ancient Athenian philosopher who was the son of Hipponicus and brother of Callias
3 Down: 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac
4 Down: US state whose capital is Augusta
5 Down: Spiral tube that forms part of the internal ear and converts sound vibrations into nerve impulses
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Writer whose only published work was Black Beauty
10 Across: French actor whose American films included Algiers, Love Affair and Gaslight
13 Across: Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest
14 Across: Department of France, in Picardy region, whose capital is Amiens
15 Across: 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: 1990 album by Stéphane Grappelli and McCoy Tyner
2 Down: Any brown songbird of the family Alaudidae
3 Down: The fifth book of the Old Testament
4 Down: A lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon
5 Down: Palace in Paris that is the official residence of the president of France
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Title shared by albums by Darkstar, Elvis Costello and Matchbox Twenty
11 Across: American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J Smith
13 Across: Mountain range that became part of Scotland's second national park in 2003
15 Across: Former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association who became the BBC's chief political correspondent in 1999
16 Across: The state capital of Minnesota
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The ______, nickname of Reading FC
2 Down: Fat-soluble organic compounds most of which have important physiological actions
3 Down: A member of the second order of angels, whose distinctive gift is knowledge
4 Down: The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
5 Down: Sultanate whose capital is Muscat
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Saturday, September 20, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Popular song by Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson, subtitled It's Later than You Think
13 Across: Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains
14 Across: The capital of Poland
15 Across: Part of the Countdown studio that houses a lexicographer and a celebrity guest
16 Across: American author whose novels included Show Boat, Cimarron and Giant
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The occupation or study concerned with the classification of armorial bearings
2 Down: George Harrison's first single as a solo artist; the biggest-selling single in the UK in 1971
3 Down: Chemical element with the symbol Au
4 Down: The point on the celestial sphere vertically above an observer
5 Down: Feathers ___, penguin in the 1993 Nick Park animated short film The Wrong Trousers
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Saturday, September 13, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Author of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels
11 Across: A medical instrument for examining the external ear
14 Across: See 36
15 Across: See 31
16 Across: Dialect spoken in Delhi and used as a lingua franca in N India and Pakistan
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Jean-Bédel ___, emperor of the Central African Empire from 1966 until overthrown in 1979
2 Down: Open grasslands characteristic of much of tropical Africa
3 Down: Character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin
4 Down: A distinguishing badge or emblem of military rank, office or membership
5 Down: Country whose capital is Kigali
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Saturday, September 6, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: English filmmaker whose works include Bugsy Malone, The Commitments and Evita
13 Across: City in Volusia County, Florida, that is the headquarters of NASCAR and the Grand American Road Racing Association
15 Across: An ancient state in Italy north of the Tiber
16 Across: American lager first produced by Carl Conrad & Co of St. Louis, Missouri in 1876
17 Across: George Michael's third studio album, released in 1996
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: See 36 Across
3 Down: Ancient Greek city famous for its austere way of life
4 Down: Former member of Roxy Music who was one of the principal innovators of ambient music
5 Down: English drummer and founder member of The Stranglers born Brian John Duffy in 1938
6 Down: Piece of embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long depicting the Norman conquest of England
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Saturday, August 30, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The only English wicket-keeper to twice claim nine dismissals in a Test match
12 Across: Seville-based Spanish football club who won the Copa del Rey in 1977 and 2005
14 Across: Shakespears Sister's only UK number one single
15 Across: City of NW Spain, home to the country's oldest university
16 Across: 1985 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein starring Sting and Jennifer Beals
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Post traditionally rewarded with "a butt of sack"
2 Down: Lead guitarist of the band Travis
3 Down: 1960 film starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse and Robert Ivers
4 Down: Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces
5 Down: Salad plant whose varieties include TomThumb and Lollo Rosso
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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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