| "___ the ice," complete this phrase that you may use during "winter" |
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| Fracture. right inside nose (5) |
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| See 16-down Retarding mechanism faulty, we hear - manage to escape (5,5) |
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| Take a ___, brief downtime that can help you stay productive with a quick stretch or a cup of coffee |
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| Crack up while performing an "S.N.L." sketch, say |
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| Rest, recess |
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| Start of a billiards game |
New York Times Mini |
08 Jun 2025 |
| Opportunity to split |
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| Baker sustained fracture (5) |
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| Shatter or give way |
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| Slow down, one is told, on holiday (5) |
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| See 7 Across |
Mirror Quiz |
17 May 2025 |
| In snooker, the score achieved by a player in a single visit to the table (5) |
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| "I told my computer I needed a ___ and now it won't stop sending me vacation ideas" |
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| Point ___, action thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze (5) |
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| When one can have a smashing time? (5) |
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| Fracture |
The Times Concise |
28 Apr 2025 |
| Take five |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Apr 2025 |
| Bit of good luck |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Apr 2025 |
| You can hear part of car stop working (5) |
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| (1/6) Oh, no! There's been a problem with the car. With 36a, you will find out more! |
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| "More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court so maybe I'll have to ___ it out again in the playoffs" (1-Across comment on Instagram after the event) |
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| Shatter |
LA Times Daily |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Separate interval (5) |
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| Bit of luck |
Newsday |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Demolish the rest (5) |
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| Snap(5) |
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| Snap: - the twig |
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| Intermission up, go off for the holidays (5) |
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| A pause in work (5) |
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| <3 "Un-___ My Heart," Toni Braxton's soulful ballad that is perfect for matters of the heart |
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| Bill about right to snap (5) |
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| An opportunity in the interval |
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| Catching right in the bill, crush (5) |
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| Make or ___ : cause success or ruin of? |
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| Smash nose right in (5) |
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| ____ even, to recoup one's money from a business, making neither profit nor loss (5) |
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| Short holiday |
LA Times Daily |
30 Dec 2024 |
| Stop in car, we're told, for interval in activity (5) |
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| Take five |
Commuter |
24 Dec 2024 |
| Baker out for a brief respite (5) |
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| Smash (5) |
Puzzler |
19 Dec 2024 |
| ___ up (end a relationship) |
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| Interval |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Dec 2024 |
| "___ the ice," complete this phrase that you may use during "winter" |
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| Intermission that will not remain intact (5) |
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| An intermission? That's lucky! (5) |
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| A chance to make an escape? (5) |
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| Play-time, when one will soundly slow down (5) |
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| (& 4-down) It's recess, first class finished. Stop hiding! (5,5) |
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| Intermission taken up as one will leave school for the holiday (5) |
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| Ross and Rachel were on one (or were they?) |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
01 Nov 2024 |
| Fracture |
Mirror Classic |
28 Oct 2024 |
| Slow down, one is told, at play-time (5) |
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| Jail escape saga (Prison ___--) |
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| Baker disturbed rest period (5) |
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| It's out to erupt and it's down to develop a fault (5) |
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| With 6-Across, share a meal together |
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| "To ___ the ice," phrase used by Shakespeare that means "to overcome initial awkwardness" |
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| Snooker players aim to prolong this holiday (5) |
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| Lucky ____, fortunate turn of events |
The Telegraph Plusword |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Will not remain whole in the intermission (5) |
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| Snap |
The Telegraph Plusword |
17 Sep 2024 |
| Breach (rule) |
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| It's lucky there's an intermission (5) |
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| Stop in car, reportedly, for pause (5) |
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| Oof the exams are behind you! Time to head home for the spring ___! |
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| Are smashers, which is a bit of luck (5) |
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| In snooker, a series of successful shots during one turn (5) |
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| *"Give me a ___!", phrase one might use to express frustration |
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| Fare badly with his majesty being an unusual personality (5) |
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| Stop working |
USA Today |
10 Jul 2024 |
| Coffee ___ (brief respite from work) (5) |
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| For the rest, a stroke of luck (5) |
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| A bit of smashing play at snooker? (5) |
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| With a bit of luck, there will be an intermission (5) |
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| See 7 Across |
Mirror Quiz |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Interrupt one's rest |
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| See 15 Across |
Mirror Quiz |
09 Jun 2024 |
| Day-off or line crack-off? (5) |
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| Chance of a rest |
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| Dashes around quickly for meals (5,5) |
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| (& 24-across) Swelter as we take bar apart (5,1,5) |
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| Interrupt one's journey and go to pieces (5) |
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| Fracture |
Mirror Classic |
18 May 2024 |
| Disrupt a succession of scoring strokes (5) |
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| "I told my computer I needed a ___ and now it won't stop sending me vacation ideas" |
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| Fracture from dizzy baker (5) |
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| Possible reason to punch out |
|
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| Intermission will soundly slow things down (5) |
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| An interruption |
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| Opening snooker shot |
Mirror Tea Time |
31 Mar 2024 |
| 1984 Queen hit, I Want to ___-- Free (5) |
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| Opening shot in snooker |
Mirror Classic |
09 Mar 2024 |
| Shatter a series of scoring strokes (5) |
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| Fracture |
Commuter |
07 Mar 2024 |
| "Gimme a ___!"; Nell Carter sitcom |
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| Short pause |
Commuter |
27 Feb 2024 |
| A good chance for a rest |
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| Successive points won in snooker, e.g. (5) |
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| Opening shot in snooker |
Mirror Classic |
11 Feb 2024 |
| Period of rest; snap |
|
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| Bust a breather (5) |
|
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| Tell the news about the holiday (5) |
|
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| Pause |
The Times Concise |
14 Jan 2024 |
| Opening snooker shot |
Mirror Tea Time |
12 Jan 2024 |
| Scott Robertson's trademark celebration, -dance (5) |
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| ... return key can yield? |
New York Times Mini |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Better holiday |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Dec 2023 |
| "___ the Ice," 2007 hit song by Britney Spears |
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| "___ the ice," complete this phrase that you may use during "winter" |
|
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| Smash several pots on a table? |
|
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| ___ point, stage in a tennis match where the receiving player can win the game with the next point |
|
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| Damage device for stopping broadcast |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Jul 2023 |
| Bit of luck |
LA Times Daily |
23 May 2023 |
| Take five |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 May 2023 |
| Some time off |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Jan 2023 |
| Come apart |
Newsday |
19 Jan 2023 |
| Stop for an intermission |
Universal |
28 Dec 2022 |
| Come apart |
USA Today |
05 Oct 2022 |
| Take ten |
New York Times |
24 Aug 2022 |
| Disperse from a huddle |
USA Today |
21 Jun 2022 |
| Recess |
Wall Street Journal |
26 May 2022 |
| Intermission, for example |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Apr 2022 |
| School vacation |
New York Times |
28 Mar 2022 |
| "___ a leg" ("Good luck!") |
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| Buster Keaton released tunes to presumably Out West, for instance, for the holiday |
Irish Times Crosaire |
11 Nov 2021 |
| Rest? One may be needed during it |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Oct 2021 |
| Pause in activity |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Oct 2021 |
| Recess |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Sep 2021 |
| Fracture |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jul 2021 |
| Bishop on a weekend getaway |
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| Holiday; snap |
The Times Concise |
09 Jul 2021 |
| Rest |
The Washington Post Sunday |
04 Jul 2021 |
| "We were on a ___!" ("F.R.I.E.N.D.S" quote) |
|
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| Stop on road, we hear, to get rest |
|
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| Fail to observe (a law) |
The Times Concise |
24 May 2021 |
| The 'five' in 'take five,' e.g |
The Washington Post |
16 May 2021 |
| The "five" in "take five," e.g |
LA Times Daily |
16 May 2021 |
| Respite |
New York Times |
27 Apr 2021 |
| Snap, crack or pop, maybe |
New York Times |
23 Apr 2021 |
| "___ a leg" |
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| ___ the Internet (go viral) |
The Washington Post Sunday |
04 Apr 2021 |
| "___ a leg!" ("Good luck!") |
|
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| Holiday; snap |
The Times Concise |
18 Mar 2021 |
| With 48-Down, it follows Yom Kippur |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Feb 2021 |
| Shatter, as a vase |
|
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| Short recess |
Universal |
15 Nov 2020 |
| "Smoke ___," 2015 song by Carrie Underwood from her fifth studio album "Storyteller" |
|
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| Short holiday |
The Times Concise |
21 Sep 2020 |
| *Bit of luck |
The Washington Post |
15 Sep 2020 |
| *Bit of luck |
LA Times Daily |
15 Sep 2020 |
| Opening shot in billiards |
New York Times |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Short vacation |
The Times Concise |
07 Aug 2020 |
| Take five from all sides today |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 Jul 2020 |
| Stop working |
USA Today |
27 Jun 2020 |
| It’s bad to the bone |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Apr 2020 |
| "I Want to ___ Free," 1984 song by Queen which is a part of the album "The Works" |
|
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| Holiday snap |
|
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| Period of rest |
Premier Sunday |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Holiday snap |
|
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| Rest period |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2020 |
| Start of a billiards game |
|
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| Snap; holiday |
The Times Concise |
01 Feb 2020 |
| Short vacation |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Nov 2019 |
| Holiday snap |
|
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| Word that, when preceding this puzzle's split words, forms the phrases with split clues |
The Washington Post Sunday |
28 Jul 2019 |
| Work stoppage? |
The Washington Post |
11 Jul 2019 |
| Work stoppage? |
LA Times Daily |
11 Jul 2019 |
| Ruin holiday |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Feb 2019 |
| Work stoppage? |
|
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| Time-out for coffee or a quick smoke |
|
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| Start a billiards match |
Universal |
09 Dec 2018 |
| Timeout |
|
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| Fracture |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Sep 2018 |
| Recess |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Sep 2018 |
| Rest period |
Premier Sunday |
02 Sep 2018 |
| Time for coffee |
USA Today |
18 Jan 2018 |
| Take five of the sides today |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Jan 2018 |
| Time for coffee |
|
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| Recess |
|
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| Start a billiards match |
|
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| Start playing snooker in school rest period |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Dec 2017 |
| Coffee |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Oct 2017 |
| Baker, butcher and Shatter? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
22 Aug 2017 |
| Short recess |
Newsday |
11 May 2017 |
| Take five |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Apr 2017 |
| Fracture |
The Guardian Quick |
04 Feb 2017 |
| What one may do to 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
USA Today |
29 Jan 2017 |
| Fracture |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jan 2017 |
| Told to slow down and rest |
|
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| Smash |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Sep 2016 |
| Split pedal audibly |
|
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| Pierce nose with tip of ring |
|
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| Get smashed in interval |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Apr 2016 |
| Time off for lunch, say |
The Washington Post |
20 Apr 2016 |
| Start a game of eight-ball |
USA Today |
02 Apr 2016 |
| Shatter |
New York Times |
07 Mar 2016 |
| Time off to slow down, we hear |
|
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| Vacation; snap |
The Times Concise |
06 Nov 2015 |
| Bust ringleader imprisoned by magistrate |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Oct 2015 |
| Time away from work |
Family Time |
27 Sep 2015 |
| Heart ______ |
Canadiana |
14 Sep 2015 |
| Start playing snooker in school rest period |
|
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| Fracture |
Newsday |
04 Aug 2015 |
| Come apart |
Newsday |
29 Jul 2015 |
| Bit of luck |
LA Times Daily |
06 Apr 2015 |
| Hiatus |
Premier Sunday |
22 Feb 2015 |
| Rest that a billiards player wants as high as possible? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jan 2015 |
| Go to pieces? |
|
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| Bit of luck |
|
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| Come apart |
|
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| Hiatus |
|
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| Fracture |
|
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| Bit of luck |
|
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| Nine ball beginning |
|
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| With 57-Down, part of a morning routine |
|
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| Disclose opportunity to stop working |
|
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| Recess |
|
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| Scattershot in a game room? |
|
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| Go to pieces? |
|
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| Fold under pressure |
|
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| Go all to pieces |
|
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| Spring ___ |
|
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| Respite from work |
|
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| Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
|
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| Bit of luck |
|
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| With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the shaded squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues |
|
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| Start a billiards game |
|
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| Come apart |
|
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| Time-out for coffee |
|
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| Time for coffee |
|
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| Start a game of pool |
|
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| Bit of luck |
|
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| Come apart |
|
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| Intermission |
|
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| Take five |
|
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| Coffee time |
|
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| Take five, say |
|
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| Eightball starter |
|
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| Word that can follow the last word of 17- and 54-Across and 11- and 27-Down |
|
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| Pool opening |
|
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| Do better than, as a score |
|
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| Tame |
|
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| Escape, with "out" |
|
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| Escape, with "out" |
|
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| It can precede the words at either end of 20-, 39-, and 58-Across |
|
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| Stroke of luck |
|
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| Fracture |
|
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| Time-out |
|
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| Require fixing |
|
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| Recess |
|
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| Shout from those huddled together |
|
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| Start a rack |
|
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| Recess |
|
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| Word missing from 17, 23, 44, 56 Across |
|
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| Word missing from 17, 23, 44, 56 Across |
|
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| Start a snooker game |
|
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| Bit of luck |
|
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| Time away from work |
|
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| Type of dancing |
|
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| Interruption |
|
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| Intermission |
|
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| Need fixing |
|
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| Huddle ender |
|
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| Shatter |
|
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| Period between sessions |
|
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| Jazz solo cadenza |
|
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| Short recess |
|
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| Coffee ___ |
|
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| Reveal, as news |
|
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| What to do with the news |
|
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| TV interval. |
|
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| Disclose, as news. |
|
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| What curve balls do. |
|
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| Dawn. |
|
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| Crack. |
|
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| Chance piece of luck: Slang. |
|
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| Social blunder: Slang. |
|
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| Hiatus. |
|
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| Stroke of luck |
|
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