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Saturday, May 17, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: A type of tequila which has been aged in oak for between two months and a year, from the Spanish for 'rested'
11 Across: Japanese city that hosted the first Winter Olympics held in Asia
12 Across: The capital of Austria
13 Across: American film producer whose creations include Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
14 Across: Opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto based on a section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The 38th president of the USA
2 Down: English football team nicknamed the Valiants
3 Down: Another name for the flowering plant Oxyria digyna
4 Down: Sudden loss of consciousness caused by rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel in the brain
5 Down: Epic 1962 Western which follows four generations of a family as they move from New York state to the Pacific Ocean
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Saturday, May 10, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Minister of Transport from 1934 to 1937 who rewrote the Highway Code and introduced the driving test and a beacon at pedestrian crossings
12 Across: The seventh sign of the zodiac
14 Across: A domesticated South American cud-chewing mammal closely related to the llama
15 Across: Composer born in 1819 whose operettas include Orpheus in the Underworld
16 Across: Country whose capital is Buenos Aires
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A synthetic fibre developed at DuPont in 1965, consisting of long-chain polyamides, with a high tensile strength and temperate resistance
2 Down: A work on astronomy, compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue
3 Down: Currency that a creditor must by law accept in redemption of a debt
4 Down: A small strip of fish or chicken, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried
5 Down: The holiest city of Islam
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Saturday, May 3, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Singer who was the subject of the film Walk the Line
13 Across: US magazine founded in 1932 by David A Smart and Arnold Gingrich
14 Across: The first murder victim, according to the Old Testament
15 Across: Island off the coast of the US state of California
16 Across: A substance with a molecular structure formed from many identical small molecules or other units bonded together
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Debut album by Patti Smith, released in 1975
2 Down: The birthplace of Archimedes
3 Down: A Spanish sparkling wine similar to champagne
4 Down: Title shared by episodes of Dynasty, 30 Rock and The O.C.
5 Down: Central American country formerly called British Honduras
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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: American actor nominated for an Oscar for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo
13 Across: 1992 film starring Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Marcello Mastroianni
14 Across: Metallic element whose chemical symbol is Au
15 Across: American golfer who won the PGA Championship in 1932 and the US Open in 1934
16 Across: English progressive rock band whose keyboard player was Keith Emerson who went on to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Most famous creation of the Italian writer Carlo Collodi
2 Down: Walled city in India founded as Shahjahanabad by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639
3 Down: A mixture of olive oil and balsam used for sacramental anointing in the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches
4 Down: Danish/British author and comedienne who took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC quiz show QI in 2016
5 Down: Antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces noursei used in the treatment of fungal infections
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Saturday, April 19, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Carnivorous green insect that rests with the first pair of legs raised
13 Across: BBC sitcom about two Glaswegian pensioners created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill
14 Across: US state known as the Hoosier state
15 Across: Winner of the women's modern pentathlon at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
16 Across: Member of Marvel Comics' X-Men, also known as Ororo Munroe
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Two-man group comprising Bill Elliott and Bobby Purvis responsible for the 1974 hit single Costafine Town
2 Down: The branch of medicine concerned with the heart and its diseases
3 Down: The capital of Albania
4 Down: An ancient alphabetical writing system used by the Celts in Britain and Ireland
5 Down: Bert ___, Scottish guitarist who was a founding member of Pentangle
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Pharmaceutical company who sponsored Huddersfield Town's football stadium from 2004 to 2012
12 Across: The last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales
14 Across: British romantic poet who drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Livorno to La Spezia
15 Across: Clarified butter used in Indian cookery
16 Across: Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: New Zealand filmmaker whose films include An Angel at My Table and The Piano
2 Down: A table game played with short cues in pubs
3 Down: Minor prophet in the Old Testament who had been a sheep herder and sycamore fig farmer
4 Down: One name for A A Milne's most famous creation
5 Down: Italian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Tour de France twice
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Saturday, April 5, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: A book containing systematised lists of synonyms
12 Across: Realm in J R R Tolkien's Middle-earth also referred to as Riddermark or The Mark
14 Across: A multiple race event in track cycling, first featured at the Olympic Games in 2012
15 Across: 1980 single that was Dexys Midnight Runners' first UK number one
16 Across: Noel ___, former Radio 1 DJ who became a successful TV presenter
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The fourth largest city in the Netherlands
2 Down: 2004 biographical film based on the life of Bobby Darin starring Kevin Spacey, who also co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film
3 Down: British violinist born in Singapore in 1978
4 Down: Abbreviation for a unique numeric commercial book identifier created in 1966
5 Down: White wine from the Lazio region of Italy
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Saturday, March 29, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: The North American name for swede
13 Across: Madonna's fifth studio album, released in 1992
14 Across: Railway station in London that opened in 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway
15 Across: American country singer-songwriter and actor who won Grammy Awards in 1993 and 1999
16 Across: Anaerobic bacteria that cause botulism and tetanus
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Dire Straits single originally released in May 1978
2 Down: 1953 film in which Doris Day sings The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!), The Black Hills of Dakota and Secret Love
3 Down: Flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
4 Down: 1940 Disney film consisting of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music
5 Down: A mild form of epilepsy
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: A fabled creature such as the Naiad, Nereid or Oceanid of Greek mythology
10 Across: Former American Davis Cup tennis player who reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 1974
13 Across: In mathematics, (of a number or quantity) not expressible as a ratio of two integers
14 Across: See 41
15 Across: A book of the Apocrypha said to have been written by a disciple of Jeremiah
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Magician, escapologist and stunt performer born Erik Weisz
2 Down: American state whose capital is Dover
3 Down: Beer known as IPA
4 Down: Sultanate whose capital is Muscat
5 Down: 1939 play by Lillian Hellman whose title comes from the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: In the Old Testament, Moses' successor who led the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan
10 Across: A former Indian copper coin, worth one sixteenth of a rupee
11 Across: 1996 single by Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds that has re-entered the charts many times
15 Across: 1981 single by Godley & Creme that reached number 7 in the UK chart
16 Across: English writer best known for Cider with Rosie
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish city on the River Tagus famous for steel and swords since the first century
2 Down: Breed of domestic fowl that originated in America and lays brown eggs
3 Down: A narrow tube inserted into a bodily cavity, for draining off fluid, introducing medication, etc
4 Down: Colourless odourless poisonous flammable gas with the formula CO
5 Down: Language also known as Old English
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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 1908 novel by E M Forster featuring the character Lucy Honeychurch
13 Across: City in Missouri that was the scene of protests and civil disorder following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
14 Across: In the Roman Catholic Church, people who confess their sins to a priest and submit to a penance imposed by him
15 Across: Port city in California situated around the Golden Gate
16 Across: The first novel written by George Eliot
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: The stool on which the priestess at Delphi sat to deliver an oracle
2 Down: The capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999
3 Down: The posture assumed when about to play the ball, as in golf, cricket, etc
4 Down: Dutch city associated with a treaty that led to the creation of the European Union and the Euro
5 Down: 1960 collection of short stories by Roald Dahl
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Porridge ingredient combined with milk or water
5 Across: Director whose films include Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas
13 Across: Number one single that was the final Atomic Kitten single to feature founding member Kerry Katona
14 Across: First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 to 2016
15 Across: London Underground station on the Circle and District lines between Embankment and Blackfriars
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: One of Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis
3 Down: Theory that increases in population tend to exceed increases in the means of subsistence and that therefore the population should be limited
4 Down: City in Orange County, California, that is the site of Disneyland
5 Down: See 54
6 Down: Actor cousin of Sissy Spacek whose real first names were Elmore Rual
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: BBC One TV series that is the second revival of the original 1992 series on ITV
13 Across: The plant Campanula rapunculus, which has an edible white tuberous root used in salads
14 Across: The second son of Adam and Eve
15 Across: 1897 play by Edmond Rostand based on the life of a French dramatist and duellist
16 Across: A polyphonic choral composition used as an anthem in the Roman Catholic service
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: American thrash metal band formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman
2 Down: Notorious English pirate better known as Blackbeard
3 Down: The second largest city in Pakistan
4 Down: The capital of Denmark
5 Down: Oscar-winning actor best known for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian and actor whose signature tune was The Very Thought of You
13 Across: 1961 number one single by Johnny Tillotson
14 Across: The human product of conception up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy
15 Across: A purée of onions mixed into a thick white sauce
16 Across: 1997 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as lawyer Fletcher Reed
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: British publishing company founded in London in 1843 by two brothers from the Isle of Arran
2 Down: The Lunar module of the 1969 Apollo 12 mission
3 Down: An official periodic count of a population
4 Down: English rock group best known for the song China in Your Hand
5 Down: Astrological star-sign represented by the twins
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial form from 1873 to 1877
13 Across: American actress whose films include Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story
14 Across: In architecture, a moulding having a cross section in the form of a letter S
15 Across: English singer and actress who originated the roles of Eva Perón in Evita and Grizabella in Cats
16 Across: A hat made of the plaited leaves of the jipijapa plant
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: TV presenter and journalist best known for co-presenting Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond
2 Down: The largest city in New Jersey
3 Down: Member of an aristocratic English family who married Sir Oswald Mosley at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honour
4 Down: The surrounding embankments of a fort
5 Down: Brazilian tennis player who won the first of her three ladies' singles titles at Wimbledon in 1959
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