| Stark |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Harshly simple (7) |
Puzzler |
10 Aug 2025 |
| You find a steer to be severely simple (7) |
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| Be true at sea and severe in self-discipline (7) |
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| A tree in the USA is severely simple in appearance (7) |
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| Harsh wind from South and east (7) |
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| Basic tea sure to be replaced (7) |
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| Hard Oz tree is cut up (7) |
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| Sober half-European prior |
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| Value setter periodically going on about getting sober |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 May 2025 |
| Sombre, severe |
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| It's harsh when the south wind goes to the east (7) |
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| Bleak Australia felled trees (7) |
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| Author Jane mostly right - ultimately, life is bleak |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Apr 2025 |
| Stern author, unfinished, half-read (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 Apr 2025 |
| Puritanical aunt, only half there, gets transformational reset (7) |
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| Stark, sombre |
The Sun Mini |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Lacking comforts, spartan |
The Times Concise |
04 Apr 2025 |
| Australian domain sounds direct and luxury-free (7) |
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| Poor team losing money sure to be self-denying (7) |
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| Devoid of comforts |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Mar 2025 |
| Severe, strict (7) |
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| From mid-January into Easter could be very cold (7) |
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| Without luxury |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Stern face ignoring features in makeover (7) |
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| Rigidly strict tea user, possibly (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Plain in appearance (7) |
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| Gold trees a" terribly forbidding (7) |
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| Possibly a Surete stiff? (7) |
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| Plain Jane who wrote abridged study of scripture |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Dec 2024 |
| See! They're in a rut being without luxury! |
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| It's true! At sea, things are severely simple |
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| Bleak House's climax adopted by American writer |
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| Chateau stereotype with spartan interior (7) |
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| Having a plain and unadorned appearance (7) |
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| Stern of manner (7) |
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| Severely plain |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Oct 2024 |
| There's this severely simple tree in the USA |
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| Strict tea-user seen drunk |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Oct 2024 |
| Lacking comforts or luxuries (7) |
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| Plain and simple (7) |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Oct 2024 |
| That's simple: get us in a tree pruner (7) |
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| Rigidly strict tea user, possibly (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 Oct 2024 |
| It's severe when the south wind goes to the east (7) |
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| Set hammered gold on dresses without any frills |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Oct 2024 |
| Basic American uniform and unopened berets sent back |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Oct 2024 |
| Not at all lavish or extravagant (TRUE SEA anagram) (7) |
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| Stern, harsh (7) |
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| Get rustic gold when trees are around (7) |
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| Like monastery life |
New York Times |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Sure eat again, being severe (7) |
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| To lead such a life is simple - and hard (7) |
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| It's both simple and hard at the same time (7) |
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| We hear Oz steer to be quite severe (7) |
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| Spartan (conditions) |
Mirror Classic |
20 Aug 2024 |
| Simple, without luxury (7) |
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| Simple and severe |
Commuter |
15 Aug 2024 |
| Harsh, as Teresa goes crazy outside university (7) |
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| Simple stone in gold, oddly earned |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Plain and functional (7) |
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| Hard to steer away after seeing gold (7) |
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| Tea sure to make sober (7) |
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| Use rate which is harsh (7) |
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| Strict, severe (7) |
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| Use, rate again - it's harsh (7) |
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| Sometimes vaguest theories are severe in attitude? |
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| Forbidding(7) |
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| Matthau stereotyped, somewhat unsmiling (7) |
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| A part of Ireland, removing large English grave |
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| Quite severe in nature, regularly... (7) |
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| Harsh, as Teresa goes crazy keeping posh (7) |
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| Severe in manner(7) |
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| British novelist omitting note about grave |
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| Severe wind coming with energy |
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| Treasure discovered right away when sober (7) |
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| Spartan not luxurious |
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| A superior holy person before becoming self-abnegating |
The Guardian Cryptic |
19 Mar 2024 |
| Simple stone set in gold before (7) |
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| Harsh wind from south east (7) |
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| Stern lady from Ulster hospitalised |
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| Spartan, ascetic |
The Times Concise |
05 Mar 2024 |
| South wind goes to the east and becomes harsh (7) |
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| True: sea can be cold |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Severely plain |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Spartan |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Feb 2024 |
| Sober tea-user collapsed |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Feb 2024 |
| Strict novelist shortly penning finales of the chapter (7) |
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| Strict novelist shortly penning finales of the chapter |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Feb 2024 |
| Grave, somber |
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| One-third of Australia, not hard in there, but plain and simple (7) |
|
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| Plain Jane the novelist almost gets note |
|
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| Stern or severe in attitude or manner (7) |
|
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| Australia tried enthusiastically removing England's openers - harsh! |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Jan 2024 |
| Harsh in self-discipline (7) |
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| Spartan (conditions) |
Mirror Classic |
16 Jan 2024 |
| Gold and stone before going without luxuries |
|
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| Spartan |
LA Times Daily |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Spartan, ascetic. (7) |
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| The south wind heading east looks serious |
|
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| Plain tea sure to be spilt (7) |
|
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| Spartan (conditions) |
Mirror Classic |
04 Dec 2023 |
| Sour and astringent wind from the south east (7) |
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| Author mostly concerned with having no luxuries |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Nov 2023 |
| Morally rigid |
Premier Sunday |
15 Oct 2023 |
| Simple one providing food without frills entertaining me, informally |
The Guardian Cryptic |
04 Jul 2023 |
| Exacting short-term drills start off aerobic exercise |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Apr 2023 |
| Plain and simple |
The Guardian Quick |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Severe in a uniform, pilot carrying heart down to base |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Feb 2023 |
| Stern |
The Guardian Quick |
30 Dec 2022 |
| Spartan |
Universal |
14 Nov 2022 |
| Severely simple |
Newsday |
30 Oct 2022 |
| Lacking comforts |
The Times Concise |
10 Oct 2022 |
| True: sea can be cold |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Aug 2022 |
| Grave, unsmiling |
Irish Times Simplex |
05 May 2022 |
| Stark |
LA Times Daily |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Stark |
The Washington Post |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Somber |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Mar 2022 |
| Ascetic American hiding in a tree, dishevelled |
The Times Cryptic |
16 Nov 2021 |
| Stern composed features female's lacking |
The Guardian Cryptic |
26 Oct 2021 |
| Stern composed features female's lacking |
|
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| Simple stone in gold, shell-like, for quotation |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Sep 2021 |
| Lacking luxury |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Aug 2021 |
| Harsh |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Jun 2021 |
| Simple Australian tree chopped up |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 May 2021 |
| Severely plain |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 May 2021 |
| Strict in manner |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 May 2021 |
| Spartan |
Universal |
19 Apr 2021 |
| Stern, self-denying |
The Guardian Speedy |
18 Apr 2021 |
| All Ulster, note, contains not a single lough grave |
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| Harsh about replacing author's final piece |
|
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| Morally strict |
Premier Sunday |
28 Feb 2021 |
| Puritanical tea-user drunk |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Feb 2021 |
| Spartan |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Feb 2021 |
| One living a monastic life, say |
|
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| Far from fancy |
Newsday |
26 Sep 2020 |
| Gold record-player with no ordinary remote |
|
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| Strict tea-user seen sloshed |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Sep 2020 |
| True: sea can be cold |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Sep 2020 |
| American sitting in a tree, unusually ascetic |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Aug 2020 |
| South wind close to cape, it's harsh |
|
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| Uncompromising |
The Washington Post Sunday |
19 Apr 2020 |
| Forbidding |
LA Times Daily |
15 Apr 2020 |
| Forbidding |
The Washington Post |
15 Apr 2020 |
| Puritanical tea-user soused |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Mar 2020 |
| Stern, serious |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Feb 2020 |
| Harsh wind facing leader of elves |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Dec 2019 |
| Grave, unsmiling |
Irish Times Simplex |
07 Nov 2019 |
| Gold music player? Not totally serious |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Nov 2019 |
| Spartan, simple |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Oct 2019 |
| Rule out treasure being scattered in grave |
|
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| No-frills |
New York Times |
13 Apr 2019 |
| Gold head of Nabokov removed from novelist's grave |
|
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| Grave |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Jan 2019 |
| Abstemious |
Canadiana |
21 Jan 2019 |
| Harsh wind from the south and east |
|
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| No-frills |
|
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| Stern or very plain |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Dec 2018 |
| True: sea strangely cold |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Dec 2018 |
| Sober tea-user collapsed |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Dec 2018 |
| Strict |
The Guardian Speedy |
20 Oct 2018 |
| Like Brutalist architecture |
New York Times |
03 Oct 2018 |
| Spartan |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Sep 2018 |
| Severe |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Extremely rare to have name removed from novelist's grave |
|
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| No-frills |
Newsday |
19 Aug 2018 |
| Like monastic life |
USA Today |
02 Jul 2018 |
| Severe sort of wind heading for England |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 May 2018 |
| Bleak wind from the south and east |
|
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| Strict tea user seen drunk |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 May 2018 |
| Stern |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Apr 2018 |
| Lacking luxury |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Mar 2018 |
| Path paved with gold, before it was plain |
|
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| Stark gold trees uprooted |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Jan 2018 |
| Bare, harsh |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Jan 2018 |
| Like Brutalist architecture |
|
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| Like monastic life |
|
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| Severe in manner |
The Times Concise |
13 Dec 2017 |
| Time Her Maj should enter a service sober |
|
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| Down under, tree cultivation's simple |
|
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| Harsh wind from the south-east |
|
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| Spartan saint seen in gold before |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Sep 2017 |
| Starkly simple |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Apr 2017 |
| Reserved for mint tea user |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Sep 2016 |
| Before led by person from Vienna, say, not half serious |
|
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| Address otherwise neat Spartan |
|
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| Like monastic life |
The Washington Post |
21 Jun 2016 |
| Harsh south wind reaches the east |
|
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| Cold lecturer left overcoat in hospital department |
|
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| One American tree shattered grave |
|
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| Tight, budgetwise |
Universal |
16 Dec 2015 |
| Hardly lavish |
Family Time |
30 Nov 2015 |
| Severely simple |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Sep 2015 |
| Gold and stone, before going without luxuries |
|
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| Spartan writer eventually taken away by soldiers |
|
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| Simple stone set in gold, shell-like reportedly |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Jul 2015 |
| Severe features relaxed — not feminine |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Jun 2015 |
| Self-disciplined – sure, ate differently |
|
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| Serious about following novelist endlessly |
|
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| Severe in appearance |
The Times Concise |
18 May 2015 |
| Forbidding rate, use different |
|
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| Like monastic life |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jan 2015 |
| Harsh features beginning to disappear duly |
|
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| Like monastic life |
|
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| Tight, budgetwise |
|
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| Jane's brief religious education is puritanical |
|
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| Severe, the south wind close to shore |
|
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| Self-disciplined in beret, suavely looking up |
|
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| Famous authoress with no name on grave |
|
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| Teresa sadly accepts university is spartan |
|
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| Spare |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Severe south wind approaching Spain |
|
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| Australian territory on the point of enhancing grave |
|
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| Unemotional principals in Faust were sacked |
|
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| Forbidding |
|
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| Like monastery life |
|
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| Somber and grave |
|
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| Stern in appearance |
|
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| Like many budgets, these days |
|
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| Stark |
|
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| Stark |
|
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| Hardly luxurious |
|
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| Hardly lavish |
|
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| Like monastic life |
|
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| Somber and grave |
|
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| Stark |
|
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| Bare-bones |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Stern and cold |
|
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| Severely simple |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Far from comfortable |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Self-disciplined |
|
|
| Hardly luxurious |
|
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| Severely simple |
|
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| Like Spartan living |
|
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| Sober |
|
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| Severely simple |
|
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| Forbidding |
|
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| Stark |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Spartan |
|
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| Forbidding |
|
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| Unadorned |
|
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| Grave |
|
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| Strict |
|
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| Unadorned |
|
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| Unbending |
|
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| Spare |
|
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| Forbidding |
|
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| Strait-laced |
|
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| Lacking adornment |
|
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| Bleak and forbidding |
|
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| Tight, budgetwise |
|
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| Ascetic |
|
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| Simple |
|
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| Uncompromising |
|
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| Severe |
|
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| Unembellished |
|
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| Forbidding |
|
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| Unadorned |
|
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| Not given to luxury. |
|
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| Rigorous. |
|
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| Puritanical. |
|
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| Adjective for England. |
|
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| Word for not-so-Merry England. |
|
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| Describes England's program. |
|
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| Mr. Dombey's disposition. |
|
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| Havin acerbity. |
|
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| Lacking ornament. |
|
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| Ascetic. |
|
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| Astringent |
|
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| Stern. |
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