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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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Saturday, February 1, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Unit of capacity in the oil industry equal to 35 Imperial gallons
13 Across: Tropical American plant, some species of which are the source of sisal and tequila
14 Across: Argentine footballer whose rabona for "27 Down" in the North London derby won the 2021 FIFA Puskás Award as the best goal of the year
15 Across: Song written by Mac Davis, originally titled The Vicious Circle, that was a hit for Elvis Presley in 1969
16 Across: The southern school of Buddhism, literally "the teaching of the elders"
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Fruit, also known as sarda in southeast Asia, developed in Israel
2 Down: In music, a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve
3 Down: Italian novelist and short-story writer whose works include The Woman of Rome
4 Down: East Sussex town whose Devonshire Park has been the venue for a pre-Wimbledon tennis tournament since 1974
5 Down: English progressive rock band, founded in 1969, best known for the song Sympathy
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Saturday, January 25, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Aromatic shrub that is the traditional flower of remembrance
12 Across: Children's novel by American author E B White featuring a pig named Wilbur
14 Across: Common name for the perennial flowering tree Parkinsonia aculeata
15 Across: Landlocked country in the Pyrenees between France and Spain
16 Across: Commercial association of towns in northern Germany formed in the mid-14th century to protect and control trade
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Single by Fern Kinney that reached number one in the UK singles chart in March 1980
2 Down: Gustave Flaubert's first published novel
3 Down: The most populous town on the Isle of Wight
4 Down: Substance that gives vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell
5 Down: Daughter of Herodias who called for the head of John the Baptist
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: Cantata composed by Carl Orff based on 24 medieval poems
13 Across: The Quiet ___, 1955 Graham Greene novel set in Vietnam
14 Across: Psychopathic assassin played by Jodie Comer in Killing Eve
15 Across: 1984 number one single by Lionel Richie
16 Across: An early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two people played with a reduced deck
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Chinese text also called the Book of Changes
2 Down: Joanna ___, English novelist whose books include The Rector's Wife
3 Down: See 4
4 Down: French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style
5 Down: Another name for alfalfa
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: A disease of the eye in which pressure within the eyeball damages the optic disc
12 Across: Popular song by George and Ira Gershwin originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta entitled East is West
14 Across: 1915 novel by W Somerset Maugham that begins with the death of Helen Carey
15 Across: The innermost of the three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
16 Across: The capital of Qatar
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Japanese city whose Honda-owned racetrack is the only figure-eight circuit in the Formula 1 championship
2 Down: 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger based on the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
3 Down: English critic, wit, and caricaturist whose works include Zuleika Dobson
4 Down: See 51
5 Down: Online social networking service founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard University students
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The 16th president of the United States of America
12 Across: Horse that won the 1954 Grand National
13 Across: Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Antananarivo
14 Across: Actor who played "Ted" Theodore Logan in the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
15 Across: Nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A system of apophony or vowel gradation, especially in Indo-European languages
2 Down: Region of southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula
3 Down: English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward
4 Down: Parrot of Australia and New Guinea with an erectile crest
5 Down: Common name for the New Zealand nettle Urtica ferox
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Saturday, December 28, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Comedy partner of Stan Laurel
13 Across: The ___, nickname of Tottenham Hotspur FC
14 Across: Rock band founded by Peter Green in 1967
15 Across: Former world heavyweight boxing champion whose nickname was 'The Fighting Marine'
16 Across: Tropical evergreen tree, ‘Indian date' in Arabic, bearing yellow flowers and brown seedpods
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: English rock band who had top ten hits with Achilles Heel and Dancing in the Moonlight
2 Down: Winner of the 1958 Formula One World Championship
3 Down: Defender who joined Arsenal from Brighton & Hove Albion in 2021
4 Down: In the Scottish Episcopal Church, the presiding bishop in the Synod
5 Down: Member of a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae
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Saturday, December 21, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:8 Across: 1960 comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, partly inspired by a book of the same name by Jean Kerr
13 Across: Until 1917, emperor of Russia
14 Across: Fragrant resin obtained from tropical trees, such as those of the family Burseraceae
15 Across: English actor who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films
16 Across: American actor whose films include Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and The Piano
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi originally titled Violetta, after the main character
2 Down: The umbelliferous plant Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable
3 Down: Animated hero, created by Elzie Segar, who first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929
4 Down: The capital of The Gambia
5 Down: Chile's first president
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