| Act as chief and wield the axe (6) |
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| Execute extremely brave leader |
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| Remain leader and act in an executive capacity? |
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| Decapitate |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 May 2025 |
| Have top role in school to execute |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 May 2025 |
| "Use the guillotine creatively," he bade (6) |
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| Act as principal and take one's top off (6) |
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| Knock one's block off? (6) |
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| Ambassador in sight finding guillotine |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Feb 2025 |
| Decapitate |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Feb 2025 |
| Kill man indicated during ball? |
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| Prove you are the boss - as Henry VIII did (6) |
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| Many a teacher may wish to carry out an execution! (6) |
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| Execute on the block |
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| Become a senior teacher or I'll cut you off! |
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| Have the principal's position to execute one (6) |
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| Bee had buzzed round guillotine (6) |
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| Take from the top? |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Oct 2024 |
| Execute by guillotine (6) |
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| Act as leader to top one (6) |
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| To act as the leader, remove top (6) |
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| Be put in charge and I'll cut you off |
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| Slay by guillotine |
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| Have a topping job (6) |
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| Decapitate |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Jul 2024 |
| Do what's required in topping role? |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Jul 2024 |
| Topping order to the ambitious teacher (6) |
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| Execute male, one detained in base (6) |
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| Be the boss and make drastic capital cut (6) |
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| Act as principal, and wield the axe (6) |
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| Take the lead to get rid of some queens the oldfashioned way (6) |
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| Guillotine, say |
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| Decapitate |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Apr 2024 |
| Have leading role in school to execute |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Apr 2024 |
| To be a school principal, one must remove the top (6) |
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| Mind the sailor there, or he'll cut you off |
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| Make a drastic capital cut? |
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| Put to death, or act as manager? (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Have top role in school to execute |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Decapitate |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Execute British boss in possession of ecstasy |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Sep 2022 |
| Decapitate |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Dec 2021 |
| Top eastern ambassador visits poor |
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| Execute, as a royal of old |
New York Times |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Assume leading role at school: wield the axe! |
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| Decapitate |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Aug 2021 |
| Decapitate |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Jan 2021 |
| Do what's required in topping role? |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Jan 2021 |
| Have top role in school to execute |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Aug 2020 |
| What killer might do to act as leader |
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| Have leading role in school to execute |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Jul 2020 |
| Decapitate |
The Times Concise |
09 Jun 2020 |
| Take from the top? |
New York Times |
22 Mar 2020 |
| . Execute man beginning to agitate in base |
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| Top diplomat wears decoration |
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| Execute that man bathed in a little sweat? |
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| Remove the top left on a stupid person |
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| Have leading role to execute |
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| Decapitate |
Canadiana |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Top husband in contest getting promotion |
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| One way to punish live leader? |
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| Take top off using blade handle around edges |
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| Guillotine |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Jan 2017 |
| Cut off from body in Belgium on top of everything else |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Mar 2016 |
| Execute, à la Marie Antoinette |
The Washington Post |
19 Feb 2016 |
| Execute and bury Englishman in grave |
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| Remove a vital part of Shed's insides during ball |
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| Use a guillotine |
USA Today |
15 Jan 2015 |
| Take the top off |
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| Use the guillotine on |
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| Use a guillotine |
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| Ambassador in sight of guillotine |
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| Decapitate |
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| Guillotine |
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| Execute, in old France |
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| Blow the foam off a brew? |
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| Execute, French Revolution-style |
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| Execute, in old France |
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| Execute, as during the French Revolution |
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| Obey the Queen of Hearts? |
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| Obey the Queen of Hearts? |
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| Punish barbarically |
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| Use a guillotine |
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| Blow the suds off (your suds) |
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| Decollate |
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| Take the top off |
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| Blow the foam off a brew? |
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| Chop off the old block? |
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| Send to the block |
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| Decapitate |
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| Dispatch, as Mary Queen of Scots |
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| Blow the foam off a brew? |
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| Take off the top |
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| Use the guillotine |
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| Guillotine |
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| Decapitate |
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| In a word, a favorite command of the Queen of Hearts. |
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| Decapitate. |
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| Guillotine. |
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