| Descent from the sublime to the ridiculous |
The Times Concise |
01 Nov 2025 |
| Comical descent of creatures that fly around house (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Anticlimactic change in tone (6) |
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| Mapmakers following city descent |
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| Book has to vary from the sublime to the ridiculous (6) |
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| Triteness or triviality of style (6) |
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| Vampires perhaps circling house in ludicrous descent |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Jul 2024 |
| Arts degree by Thomas results in anticlimax (6) |
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| Disappointment hit home, leaving yours truly a little sad (6) |
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| Graduate gets host out - anticlimax results (6) |
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| Change from the sublime to the ridiculous? |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Jun 2023 |
| Transition from the sublime to the ridiculous |
The Guardian Quick |
28 Apr 2023 |
| Hit hard — huge letdown |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Nov 2022 |
| Literary anticlimax |
The Guardian Speedy |
14 Aug 2022 |
| Hit hard — huge anticlimax |
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| Crazy house internally a big let-down |
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| British mountain provides disappointment |
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| Making boast about hotel feels like an anticlimax |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Feb 2020 |
| House cracked externally -- something of a comedown |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 Nov 2019 |
| Sentimentalism |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Sentimentalism |
The Washington Post |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Sentimentalism |
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| Spa city's huge feeling of anticlimax |
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| Spa — huge disappointment |
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| Sentimentality |
New York Times |
05 Sep 2018 |
| Insincere compassion |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2018 |
| House with crazy exterior is let-down |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Jun 2018 |
| Hit hard by huge anticlimax |
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| Sentimentality |
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| Insincere sentimentality |
Newsday |
27 Apr 2017 |
| Club hothead is so backward, it gives one a sense of anticlimax |
Irish Times Crosaire |
02 Apr 2016 |
| Nothing found in location of a dip or severe descent |
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| Ludicrous descent of mood in writing |
The Times Concise |
02 Dec 2015 |
| Mawkishness |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jul 2015 |
| Mawkishness |
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| From the sublime to the ridiculous |
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| Mawkishness |
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| Anticlimax |
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| Schmaltz |
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| Schmaltz |
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| Sentimentalism |
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| Anticlimax |
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| Schmaltz |
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| Schmaltz |
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| Mawkishness |
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| Sentimentalism |
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| Sappiness |
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| Crocodile tears |
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| Maudlinism |
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| Insincere sentimentality |
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| Mush or gush |
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| Anticlimax |
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| Strained pathetic effect. |
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| False emotion, à la the weepy soap opera. |
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| Mawkish emotion. |
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| Mawkishness. |
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| Sentimentalism. |
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| Sentimentality. |
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| Anticlimax. |
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