| Potato disease |
The Times Concise |
07 Oct 2025 |
| Bad news for vegetation |
New York Times |
12 Aug 2025 |
| Mildew, e.g. |
New York Times |
09 Aug 2025 |
| Orchard disaster |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Jul 2025 |
| Captain treated initially for disease |
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| Disease that shrivels and withers plants (6) |
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| Cause of widespread destruction (6) |
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| To blast, frustrate (6) |
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| Bounty captain found Turk's-head injurious to plants (6) |
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| Ruin left in bay |
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| Second-rate portable plague (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
22 Dec 2024 |
| Plant disease making top of bloom come down (6) |
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| Second-rate gentle plague (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
12 Nov 2024 |
| Plant disease makes top of bloom come down (6) |
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| Disease that causes browning and death of plant tissue, cause of the Irish Potato Famine (6) |
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| Curse put on British land |
The Times Cryptic |
06 Sep 2024 |
| Affliction is blocked, initially, and not serious (6) |
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| After a bad start, minor crop infection (6) |
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| Disease causing plants to wither (6) |
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| Bishop with lamp maybe revealing plant disease |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
01 May 2024 |
| Affliction seeming trivial to a blockhead (6) |
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| Note superficial pollution (6) |
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| Disease of bishop, easily borne |
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| Bad start - short of weight - it will ruin the crop! (6) |
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| Plant pandemic (6) |
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| Plant disease |
The Times Concise |
07 Oct 2022 |
| Plant disease |
The Times Concise |
06 May 2022 |
| Plant disease |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Apr 2022 |
| Shatter - Spud's nemesis? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 Nov 2021 |
| What's at end of tunnel after Black Plague? |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 May 2021 |
| Plant disease |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 May 2021 |
| Most of UK in plague |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Apr 2021 |
| Farming scourge |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2020 |
| Disease of potatoes |
The Times Concise |
07 Jul 2020 |
| Minimum of blasphemy, mild curse |
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| Disease of potatoes |
Irish Times Simplex |
18 Dec 2019 |
| Disease that can follow planning |
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| Plant disease |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Jun 2018 |
| Plant disease bad at first, not serious after |
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| Disease is an irritating thing, no hesitation |
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| Orchard disaster |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Nov 2016 |
| Ruin bishop's day |
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| Bishop has amusing setback |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 May 2015 |
| Plague |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Mar 2015 |
| Scourge |
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| Worry for a farmer |
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| Orchard problem |
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| Scourge |
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| Plant plague |
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| Impair |
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| Decay |
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| Decay |
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| Air pollution, for instance |
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| Ruin |
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| Ruin |
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| Crop attacker |
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| Orchard disaster |
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| Devilish doing |
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| Dilapidation |
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| Plant disorder |
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| Plant destroyer |
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| Farmer's frustration |
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| Frustrate. |
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| Frustrate |
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