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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement
12 Across: 1959 British film based on a novel of the same name by John Braine
13 Across: 1965 American Civil War film starring James Stewart, Doug McClure and Katherine Ross
14 Across: English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, 1937-57, with a batting average of 50.06
15 Across: Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Robert J ___, American filmmaker who directed and produced the 1922 documentary film Nanook of the North
2 Down: American singer best known for his 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now
3 Down: City in Michigan that was the birthplace of General Motors
4 Down: 1980 single by Motörhead that spent 12 weeks in the UK Singles Chart
5 Down: In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife
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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: English inventor who founded the toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908
12 Across: An atom or group of atoms containing at least one unpaired electron and existing for a brief period of time before reacting to produce a stable molecule
14 Across: A mature female elephant, whale or seal
15 Across: Francis ___, French painter and poet associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements
16 Across: Billie ___, singer and actress who played Rose Tyler in the TV series Doctor Who
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Former member of Marine Girls who became one half of Everything but the Girl
2 Down: 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band
3 Down: 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by Little
4 Down: Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934
5 Down: American TV quiz show in which contestants are presented with answers and must phrase their responses in question form
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: 1984 novel by Milan Kundera
14 Across: 1974 satirical Western written and directed by Mel Brooks
15 Across: TV Western series that featured the Cartwright family
16 Across: In psychoanalysis, the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious
17 Across: Name adopted by the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1972
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: US state whose capital is Columbus
2 Down: 1992 Woody Allen film featuring Judy Davis and Liam Neeson
3 Down: The leading division or units of a military force
4 Down: English critic, wit, and caricaturist whose works include Zuleika Dobson
5 Down: McFly's best-selling single
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Saturday, September 28, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang
11 Across: Singer and actor who married Nancy Barbato, Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow
13 Across: BBC TV drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980
14 Across: Harold ___, 1924 Olympic 100m champion depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire
15 Across: 1999 American teen romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger, loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: County known as "The Garden of England"
2 Down: Department of France whose capital is Mezieres
3 Down: Slovenian town that hosted the World Rowing Championships for the fourth time in 2011
4 Down: American sports channel owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications
5 Down: Play by Victoria Wood first performed in 1978
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Saturday, September 21, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a fictional character created in 1919 by Johnston McCulley
10 Across: The plant Convallaria majalis, which has spikes of white bell-shaped flowers
14 Across: The sixth book in the Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves
15 Across: 1969 film by Federico Fellini, loosely based on Petronius's work of the same name
16 Across: A climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Country whose capital is Baku
2 Down: Language almost identical to Hindi in basic structure and grammar
3 Down: Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes
4 Down: Christian festival celebrated on November 1
5 Down: See 39
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works include Songs of Innocence and of Experience
8 Across: Journey of the type that brings the characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales together
13 Across: Oratorio by William Walton first performed in 1931
14 Across: Caretaker of Hogwarts in J K Rowling's Harry Potter stories
15 Across: The ancient Roman name for the Isle of Wight
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: The ancient Greek goddess of peace
3 Down: See 54
4 Down: Actor whose films include Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer and Punch-Drunk Love
5 Down: Anti-tank weapon named after a musical instrument popularised in the 1930s by radio comedian Bob Burns
6 Down: City in Ohio nicknamed "Rubber Capital of the World"
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Saturday, September 7, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Playwright whose works include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
13 Across: Actress who played Debs in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly
14 Across: The capital of Sardinia
15 Across: A column of rising air used by gliders to gain height
16 Across: TV sitcom of the 1980s set in the fictional Maplins holiday camp
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: US sitcom whose guest stars have included Hillary Clinton, Adam Levine and Shania Twain
2 Down: King of Macedonia who was the father of Alexander the Great
3 Down: 1844 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on a play by Victor Hugo
4 Down: With Atropos and Lachesis, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology
5 Down: Character created by David McKee for several children's books and an animated TV series on the BBC
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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Actress who played Sabrina Duncan in the TV series Charlie's Angels
13 Across: A fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountain
14 Across: Department of southwestern France whose cities include Lourdes
15 Across: Very large oval Indian diamond that has been part of the British crown jewels since 1849
16 Across: Another name for the papaya
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: A sea bird of the family Stercorariidae
2 Down: A large, four-legged walking robot introduced in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back
3 Down: A person who divines, especially by crystal gazing
4 Down: A person who values property for taxation
5 Down: A method of encoding a bitmap image such that a person who has partially received it sees a degraded copy of the entire image
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Saturday, August 24, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:12 Across: A million millionth of a second
13 Across: Musical instrument that is played by the wind
14 Across: Woolworths heiress whose seven husbands included German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm
15 Across: Traditional bat-and-ball game on which baseball is based
16 Across: American actor, comedian and director seen as Maxwell Smart in the sitcom Get Smart
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay, famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods
2 Down: Crystal silicate mineral, the most common species of which is schorl
3 Down: A large vein that conveys oxygen-depleted blood to the heart
4 Down: The capital of Qatar
5 Down: US critic, noted especially for Axel's Castle, a study of the symbolist movement
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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: The first President of the Palestinian National Authority
12 Across: 1964 musical based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers
14 Across: English actress who made her Broadway debut in 1929 in the American première of Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet
15 Across: Sir Michael ___, English composer whose works include the operas The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam and The Knot Garden
16 Across: The Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom, associated with Mercury
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: American actor whose films include Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs and The Piano
2 Down: Chelsea's all-time leading goalscorer, with 211 goals in all competitions
3 Down: 1977 film about a killer whale starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling
4 Down: Plant also known as sea lavender
5 Down: Oscar-nominated 1993 film written and directed by Jane Campion
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Saturday, August 10, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: English actress seen as Little Mo Mitchell in EastEnders and Cathy Keating in Grantchester
12 Across: A type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent form or version
14 Across: A circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, used since 609 AD as a Christian church
15 Across: Dance originating in Brazil exemplified by the 1964 Getz/Gilberto single The Girl From Ipanema
16 Across: The capital of Greenland, whose Danish name is Godthab
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: County known as 'the garden of England'
2 Down: Former Labour Cabinet member nicknamed "the Iron Chipmunk" by Fraser Nelson, writing in The Spectator
3 Down: See 7
4 Down: Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid
5 Down: 1988 film for which Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar
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Saturday, August 3, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:10 Across: Nickname of François Duvalier, repressive President of Haiti from 1957-1971
11 Across: A salad of shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, carrots, onions, etc
13 Across: Tom ___, American golfer who won the Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1996
15 Across: Welsh rock band whose hits include Maybe Tomorrow and Dakota
16 Across: A surrounding area or region
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon
2 Down: BBC classical music quiz chaired by Joseph Cooper from 1966
3 Down: Character in the TV series Callan played by Russell Hunter
4 Down: Loch ___, the largest Scottish lake
5 Down: A red-skinned potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:1 Across: Horse that won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977
5 Across: The capital of Nova Scotia
9 Across: Mike Leigh play that opened at the Hampstead Theatre in April 1977
13 Across: The capital of the state of Bavaria, on the Isar River
14 Across: The chief port of Spain
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Down Clues and Answers:2 Down: Genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae to which the leaf vegetable rocket belongs
3 Down: Another name for a pluviometer
4 Down: The second most populous state in India after Uttar Pradesh
5 Down: Play by Harold Brighouse set in Salford in 1880
6 Down: Small constellation containing the star Vega
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Saturday, July 20, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:9 Across: Actress best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels
11 Across: Actor who played Captain Renault in the 1942 film Casablanca
14 Across: Comedian and actor whose TV roles include playing Jimmy Savile in the BBC One series The Reckoning
15 Across: Horse that won the 1958 Derby
16 Across: The brightest star in the constellation Virgo
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: ___ & Dave, musical duo whose surnames are Hodges and Peacock
2 Down: Furniture item for use when praying
3 Down: Texan scene of a 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel
4 Down: Tempo marking indicating that music is to be played slowly
5 Down: American actress who won Emmy awards for playing Jill Brock in the TV series Picket Fences
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Saturday, July 13, 2024
Across Clues and Answers:11 Across: Singer in All Saints who was a contestant on Celebrity Race Across the World
13 Across: Eric Carmen song from the film Dirty Dancing that was a top ten hit in the US
14 Across: Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
15 Across: 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Raj Quartet
16 Across: Detective created by G K Chesterton
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Down Clues and Answers:1 Down: Belgian surrealist artist whose works include The Treachery of Images
2 Down: A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus cultivated for its edible root
3 Down: Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti
4 Down: Beatles album with an iconic cover featuring a zebra crossing
5 Down: A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
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