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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Brigitte ___, French actress, singer and model who became the official face of Marianne in 1969
5 Across: 1981 adventure film starring Harry Hamlin as Perseus
13 Across: 1998 film starring Robert De Niro and Jean Reno
14 Across: One name for the limbless lizard Anguis fragilis
15 Across: Cathedral city in Devon
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: 1970 disaster movie based on a 1968 Arthur Hailey novel
3 Down: Brightest star in the constellation Cygnus
4 Down: Chinese puzzle in which shapes are formed from a square cut up into seven pieces
5 Down: Nickname of the American film producer Albert R Broccoli
6 Down: The upper rotatable part of a theodolite
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Song and dance number from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel
13 Across: An old form of poker
14 Across: Celestial body reclassified by the International Astronomical Union as a dwarf planet in 2006
15 Across: The characters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, derived from the Roman alphabet, believed to have a magical significance
16 Across: In yoga, any of the seven major energy centres in the body
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: The fourth largest city in the Netherlands
3 Down: A score of two under par for a hole in golf
4 Down: Name given to privates in the Royal Engineers
5 Down: Flap of tissue that hangs in the back of the throat
6 Down: The composer of Rule Britannia
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Saturday, June 4, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Welsh composer, singer and actor who wrote Keep the Home Fires Burning
11 Across: Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
12 Across: The god of light, poetry, music, healing and prophecy in Classical mythology
13 Across: 1516 book by Sir Thomas More
14 Across: Russian city at the confluence of the Irtysh and Om rivers
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Character in the sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! played by Vicki Michelle
2 Down: Don ___, central character in the TV series Mad Men, played by Jon Hamm
3 Down: US state whose capital is Des Moines
4 Down: Welsh song and military march describing events during a siege between 1461 and 1468
5 Down: Ransom Eli ___, American motoring pioneer who built his first gasoline-powered car in 1896
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: The most prestigious National Hunt race, first run in March 1924
10 Across: The technical name for mother-of-pearl
13 Across: A large powerfully-built Japanese breed of dog
14 Across: ___ Harris, American singer-songwriter whose albums include Pieces of the Sky and Wrecking Ball
15 Across: 1998 animated film featuring the voices of Kevin Spacey, Madeline Kahn and Roddy McDowall
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily
2 Down: African country whose capital is Asmara
3 Down: British duo formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith
4 Down: 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, originally published in French as Huis Clos
5 Down: Anouk ___, French film actress married to Albert Finney from 1970 to 1978
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Saturday, May 21, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: 1957 film by David Lean based on a novel by Pierre Boulle
13 Across: 1982 song by Toto that reached number three in the UK singles chart
14 Across: Son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
15 Across: Terminal part of a peripheral motor or sensory nerve
16 Across: British prime minister, 1940-45 and 1951-55
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Bright metallic element whose atomic number is 72
4 Down: 1968 biopic starring Vanessa Redgrave in the title role
5 Down: Italian dumplings made with semolina pasta or potatoes
6 Down: Chris ___, England bowler nicknamed "Chilly" who played in 46 Tests between 1973 and 1981
7 Down: American rapper who died as a result of a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996
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Saturday, May 14, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Cambodian temple complex built in the early 12th century
6 Across: The parasitic creature Dracunculus medinensis, common in India and Africa
13 Across: One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint
14 Across: Martha ___, Dublin-born journalist and broadcaster who presents BBC Radio 4's The World at One
15 Across: Parody rock band whose members include David St. Hubbins, as Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Garlic mayonnaise
2 Down: The largest living anuran
3 Down: California city on San Francisco Bay damaged by an earthquake in 1989
4 Down: Robert ___, singer and musician who was the original drummer in Soft Machine
5 Down: Alfred, Lord ___, poet who succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet laureate in 1850
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Saturday, May 7, 2016
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: The fifth and final single from Robbie Williams' debut studio album Life thru a Lens
12 Across: The first murder victim, according to the Old Testament
13 Across: Legendary island on which King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged
14 Across: Another name for mock orange and lilac
15 Across: Professor ___, criminal mastermind in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Clement ___, politician who led the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945
2 Down: Sir Joshua ___, English portrait painter who was the first president of the Royal Academy
3 Down: English naturalist who presented The Really Wild Show from 1986 to 1993
4 Down: See 47
6 Down: Dwarf peoples of Equatorial Africa, noted for their hunting and forest culture
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