| Social engagement with a stranger (5,4) |
Mirror Classic |
25 Feb 2026 |
| Led bandit astray in social engagement (5,4) |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Dec 2025 |
| Assignation with a stranger (5,4) |
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| Potentially awkward encounter |
LA Times Daily |
28 May 2025 |
| *It might be a setup |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Feb 2025 |
| Not one with a goodlooking peach, surely? (5,4) |
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| Crazy bandit led from romantic rendezvous (5,4) |
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| Liaison between strangers (5,4) |
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| Unforeseeable appointment? (5,4) |
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| 1987 romcom starring Kim Basinger and Bruce Willis |
Mirror Quiz |
27 Mar 2024 |
| See someone, for the first time lacking in vision, become obsolete (5,4) |
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| Screen time spent with someone you don't know? |
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| Arranged introduction |
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| Many a 'Love on the Spectrum' setup |
USA Today |
19 Jun 2023 |
| Matchmaker's arrangement |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2021 |
| How Prince Harry met Meghan Markle |
New York Times |
09 Jan 2021 |
| It may be a setup |
New York Times |
24 Nov 2020 |
| Mystery assignation |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Nov 2020 |
| Sight-unseen encounter |
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| Sight-unseen encounter |
LA Times Daily |
18 Aug 2020 |
| *Many a Match.com get-together |
LA Times Daily |
04 Aug 2020 |
| *Many a Match.com get-together |
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| Sight-unseen setup |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Jul 2020 |
| Little love being returned in bed, daughter's instead accepted alternative liaison? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Feb 2020 |
| Romantic setup |
Universal |
28 Aug 2019 |
| It's a setup |
New York Times |
16 Aug 2019 |
| Romantic setup result |
Universal |
17 Mar 2019 |
| It's a setup |
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| Romantic setup result |
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| Romantic setup |
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| Fixer-upper? |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Sep 2018 |
| Fixer-upper? |
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| Sight-unseen social setup |
USA Today |
27 Mar 2017 |
| Two people, who have never met before, on a romantic outing : 2 wds. |
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| You might be "set up" with one |
USA Today |
28 Jun 2016 |
| Sight-unseen rendezvous |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Mar 2016 |
| You might be "set up" with one |
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| An encounter with the unseen? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Mar 2015 |
| 1987 rom-com with Bruce Willis in his first leading role |
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| Dinner and a movie, say, with someone you don't know |
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| Setup of a sort |
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| Setup of a sort |
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| Situation in which this puzzle's symptoms may appear |
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| Sight-unseen engagement |
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| Sort of social engagement |
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| Situation in which this puzzle's symptoms may appear |
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| Social fix-up |
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| Occasion for strangers to meet |
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| When you might start seeing someone |
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| When you might start seeing someone |
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| 1987 comedy with Kim Basinger and Bruce Willis |
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| Film featuring Bruce Willis's first major screen role |
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| A setup that might be a setup |
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| Sight unseen engagement |
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| Single experiment? |
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| Arranged social engagement |
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| Previously unseen dinner companion, maybe |
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| Stranger in the night? |
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| First meeting of a sort |
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| Notoriously risky social event |
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| Chancy social engagement |
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| Campus specialty. |
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| Beginning of many a romance. |
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| Meeting of a sort. |
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| Romantic instance of boy-meets-girl. |
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| Social event: Slang. |
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| Risky social engagement. |
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| Appointment of a sort. |
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