| Person abandoned on a desert island (8) | 
            Puzzler | 
            07 Sep 2025 | 
          
          
            | Perhaps Robinson Crusoe players off on tour | 
            The Times Quick Cryptic | 
            03 Sep 2025 | 
          
          
            | Person abandoned on a desert island (8) | 
            Puzzler | 
            08 Jul 2025 | 
          
          
            | Shipwrecked, put adrift (8) | 
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            | Rejected the actors on holiday (8) | 
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            | Shipwreck survivor (8) | 
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            | 2001 film starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt (4,4) | 
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            | Players not at home for Crusoe, say | 
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            | The stray, after the "Scat!" scampers off (8) | 
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            | Movie where Tom Hanks plays the role of Chuck Noland, survivor of a plane crash (8) | 
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            | With all the actors on holiday, he finds himself abandoned (8) | 
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            | He let the boat go from the wharf (8) | 
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            | Tom Hanks film | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            13 Nov 2024 | 
          
          
            | Shipwrecked person | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            09 Nov 2024 | 
          
          
            | Unfortunate sailor from California having to live without a wife (8) | 
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            | Why understudies were used in Tom Hanks film? | 
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            | ____ 2000, a reality TV show about a community on a Hebridean island (8) | 
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            | Channel 5 TV series starring Phillip Schofield (4,4) | 
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            | One stranded with group of actors on holiday (8) | 
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            | Film actors on holiday | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            06 Sep 2024 | 
          
          
            | Rejected actors out of town (4,4) | 
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            | The players get off but he's stranded | 
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            | Robinson Crusoe, say | 
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            | Stranded actors had an established routine | 
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            | Heard castor weigh survivor of shipwreck (8) | 
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            | One abandoned by players on opponents' ground | 
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            | When outcast should cancel the play? (8) | 
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            | Rejected theatrical company on holiday? (8) | 
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            | Rejected a method that follows a certain pattern (8) | 
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            | Actors acquire a method to get someone stranded (8) | 
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            | Shipwrecked one | 
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            | Shipwrecked person finds shed near a track (8) | 
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            | Group of actors not at home - found on a desert island? (8) | 
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            | Actors off from "Robinson Crusoe"? | 
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            | A naval reject? | 
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            | Discarded Acts (8) | 
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            | Shipwrecked sailor | 
            The Times Concise | 
            15 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Shipwrecked person | 
            Mirror Classic | 
            29 Nov 2023 | 
          
          
            | Role played by the guest on radio's Desert Island Discs (8) | 
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            | Tom Hanks film | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            23 Aug 2023 | 
          
          
            | Shipwreck victim seeing actors off | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            20 Jul 2023 | 
          
          
            | Perhaps islander's reason for not staging play | 
            The Guardian Cryptic | 
            06 Jul 2023 | 
          
          
            | A method overlooked by actors in Hanks film  | 
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            | Discard survivor? | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            20 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | Movie with a volleyball named Wilson | 
            USA Today | 
            02 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | Robinson's gone to support actors  | 
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            | One in desperate need of help by Friday? | 
            The Telegraph Toughie | 
            11 Nov 2021 | 
          
          
            | Stage empty, this with 26? | 
            The Guardian Cryptic | 
            21 Oct 2021 | 
          
          
            | Stranded person | 
            The Times Concise | 
            28 May 2021 | 
          
          
            | Film actors on holiday | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            02 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Shipwrecked person | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            02 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Perhaps Crusoe's reason for putting nothing on?  | 
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            | Lands on island with players - it's not a home game | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            15 Jul 2020 | 
          
          
            | Caught one way, repeatedly stranded  | 
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            | 'Robinson Crusoe' cancelled due to holidays? | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            17 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | Players missing Robinson Crusoe?  | 
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            | Rejected certain players meeting at opposing team's stadium | 
            The Telegraph Toughie | 
            21 May 2019 | 
          
          
            | Victim of shipwreck | 
            The Times Concise | 
            19 Feb 2019 | 
          
          
            | Actors on holiday for film  | 
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            | Why theatre can't perform Robinson Crusoe?  | 
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            | Rejected actors over 42nd Street, for one  | 
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            | Rejected second act breaking a process  | 
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            | Throw out one who is marooned  | 
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            | South of cape, choice of routes for ill-starred traveller  | 
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            | One's alone with actors not present | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            08 Jul 2017 | 
          
          
            | Robinson Crusoe, notably | 
            The Washington Post | 
            05 Jul 2017 | 
          
          
            | Robinson Crusoe, notably | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            05 Jul 2017 | 
          
          
            | One abandoned actors with a Method  | 
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            | Unfortunate sailor's reason for having no play? | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            19 Mar 2017 | 
          
          
            | Robinson Crusoe, notably | 
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            | Abandon players on holiday  | 
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            | Game lacking a new style is worthless | 
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            | Figure in many a New Yorker cartoon | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            21 Jun 2016 | 
          
          
            | Acts like Robinson Crusoe  | 
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            | Rejected players playing at rival's ground  | 
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            | TV's Ginger Grant or Eunice Howell | 
            The Washington Post | 
            27 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | Tom Hanks film | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            17 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | One left behind what's needed for mice to play catching rats, ultimately | 
            The Telegraph Toughie | 
            01 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | Unfortunate craftsman left to fend for himself  | 
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            | Person abandoned on a desert island | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            02 Nov 2015 | 
          
          
            | Actors on holiday find shipwrecked person | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            02 Nov 2015 | 
          
          
            | Actors with a method to portray Robinson Crusoe?  | 
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            | Robinson Crusoe, for one | 
            Newsday | 
            08 Sep 2015 | 
          
          
            | Most of 23 down is on holiday and this is why the gate is closed | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            04 Sep 2015 | 
          
          
            | Is this why the theatre is closed or used? | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            22 Jul 2015 | 
          
          
            | One sending a message in a bottle, maybe | 
            New York Times | 
            04 Jun 2015 | 
          
          
            | 2000 film starring Tom Hanks | 
            The Telegraph General Knowledge | 
            12 Jan 2015 | 
          
          
            | Robinson Crusoe, for one | 
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            | One sending a message in a bottle, maybe | 
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            | Accountant and saint gone missing  | 
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            | 2000 Hanks movie | 
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            | Robinson Crusoe, e.g. | 
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            | Gilligan, for one | 
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            | Crusoe, e.g. | 
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            | Tom Hanks film of 2000 | 
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            | Crusoe, e.g. | 
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            | Crusoe, e.g. | 
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            | 2000 film starring 1-Across | 
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            | 2000 Hanks movie | 
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            | Gilligan or a Tom Hanks character | 
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            | Crusoe, for one | 
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            | Robinson Crusoe, for one | 
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            | Reject | 
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            | Alexander Selkirk, for one | 
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            | Crusoe, for one. | 
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            | Robinson Crusoe. | 
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            | Alexander Selkirk was one. | 
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            | Film in which Tom Hanks plays a FedEx employee | 
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