| Had race fixed: ridiculous pretence (7) |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Aug 2025 |
| Tea awfully dear: it's a travesty |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Aug 2025 |
| Farce |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Aug 2025 |
| Mere pretence at getting cleaner, having made away with top (7) |
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| Daihatsu hatchback released in 1977 (7) |
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| Daily these days has little energy for absurd pretence (7) |
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| Absurd pretence |
Mirror Classic |
19 May 2025 |
| Cleaner edging away from cadet, might be a clue |
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| Easily discovered deception (7) |
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| Leading contractors somehow hear about promo farce (7) |
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| When this is played out, people will give you their word (7) |
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| A card he played that's absurd |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
25 Feb 2025 |
| 1963 comedy-thriller starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn |
Mirror Quiz |
15 Feb 2025 |
| Mime within a game (7) |
The Sun Mini |
03 Feb 2025 |
| 1963 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (7) |
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| A card he used to create false pretence (7) |
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| Farcical presentation of care had to be sorted out (7) |
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| Pantomime at a party |
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| A card he played is a fake |
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| Toast a half-dead farce |
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| Reach out to embrace, now, but it's just a pretence (7) |
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| Pretense |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Nov 2024 |
| Husband in motor publicity initially enduring mockery |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Some tea! Dear, too! Game to get it? |
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| Sort of riddle (7) |
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| Stanley Donen film starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (7) |
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| Pretense, masquerade |
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| Travesty |
Mirror Classic |
12 Oct 2024 |
| Absurd pretence |
The Times Concise |
11 Oct 2024 |
| Had race fixed: ridiculous pretence |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Farce |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Oct 2024 |
| 1947 novel by John Mortimer (7) |
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| Ridiculous pretence of race had to be altered (7) |
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| Farce |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Sep 2024 |
| Had race fixed that's ridiculous pretence |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Sep 2024 |
| Travesty(7) |
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| Pretence (7) |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Piece of ridiculous pretence (7) |
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| Farce |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Tea awfully dear: it's a travesty |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Farce |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Daily forced to cancel leader in absurd act |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Race had become a farce (7) |
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| Care had to be shown for a go at a party game (7) |
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| Race had to be rerun ___ it's a travesty! (7) |
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| Obvious facade |
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| Fizzy tea? It's absurd |
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| Shah raid said to be ridiculous pretence (7) |
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| A travesty |
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| Tea has got awfully dear. It's quite farcical (7) |
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| Travesty of fizzy tea! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 May 2024 |
| False pretence |
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| Farcical travesty |
Mirror Classic |
20 May 2024 |
| Had to care about a riddle being acted (7) |
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| Charlie strangely heard about a farce (7) |
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| Sham or pretence (7) |
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| Race had degenerated into farce (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
03 May 2024 |
| The Gtti was a hot hatch version of which Daihatsu? (7) |
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| Conservative somehow heard about a silly pretence (7) |
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| Race had become disorderly farce |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn rom-com |
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| Absurd act involving cleaner before commercial, European |
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| Bit of deception |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2024 |
| Small car made by Daihatsu from 1977-2000 (7) |
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| Tea with Karan essentially engrossing primarily; commercial in between is a farce (7) |
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| Ridiculous pretence (7) |
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| Daily help, we hear, is a ridiculous pretence |
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| Cleaner given notice - minimum of excuse for absurd act |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
11 Jan 2024 |
| Unconvincing false actions (7) |
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| Reach out to catch, now. It's part of the game (7) |
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| Daily help, we hear, is a ridiculous pretence (7) |
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| Tea that's fizzy? It's a ridiculous pretence |
The Guardian Cryptic |
26 Sep 2023 |
| Absurd pretence |
The Times Concise |
23 Sep 2023 |
| Obvious deception |
Newsday |
19 Sep 2023 |
| An acted riddle |
The Times Concise |
10 Sep 2023 |
| Farce |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Travesty |
The Guardian Quick |
12 Apr 2023 |
| Parody of commercial supporting cleaner energy |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Mar 2023 |
| Absurd act of cleaner forced male to leave |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Mar 2023 |
| Difficult to stifle answer in church parody ... |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Jul 2022 |
| Cleaner forced to go topless in farce |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Insincere behavior |
Newsday |
09 Apr 2022 |
| It's an absurd pretence for Henry joining up with Dara in Clare |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Mar 2022 |
| After drink, read novel that's flimsy fiction? |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Feb 2022 |
| It's an absurd pretence for Henry joining up with Dara in Clare |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Nov 2021 |
| For the most part, it's difficult finding Bill Clare outside pantomime |
Irish Times Crosaire |
06 Nov 2021 |
| False pretense |
USA Today |
29 Sep 2021 |
| Farce enjoyed involving artist breaking into church |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 May 2021 |
| Deception, fishy fizzy drink? |
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| Corrupt archdeacon sacrificing Tory in absurd pretence |
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| Deceptive act |
USA Today |
11 Mar 2021 |
| Blatant pretense |
USA Today |
10 Mar 2021 |
| Cary Grant film poster within reach perhaps |
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| Pretence of cleaner hoarding Ecstasy |
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| Like toreadors, again and again |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2021 |
| Care had to be exercised in this absurd pretence |
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| Arguably dirtier exhibitionist starts after cleaner act |
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| Daily forced to ditch front cover in farcical event |
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| Absurd pretense |
New York Times |
26 Jul 2020 |
| Absurd pretence |
The Times Concise |
06 Jun 2020 |
| Notice in Daily Express initially a mockery? |
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| Bit of acting-out in a parlor game |
New York Times |
18 Nov 2019 |
| Bit of acting-out in a parlor game |
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| Daily forced to cancel leader in ridiculous pretence |
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| Pantomimed act in a parlor game |
The Washington Post |
30 Sep 2019 |
| Pantomimed act in a parlor game |
LA Times Daily |
30 Sep 2019 |
| Revolutionary hugging a radical in an absurd act |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Aug 2019 |
| Utter farce |
Universal |
19 Aug 2019 |
| Pretense |
The Washington Post |
30 Jun 2019 |
| Pretense |
LA Times Daily |
30 Jun 2019 |
| An absurd pretence; an episode in a word game |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
23 Jun 2019 |
| Tea awfully dear — it's a travesty |
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| Extraordinary race had become a farce |
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| Pantomimed act in a parlor game |
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| Pretense |
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| Utter farce |
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| In extremes of cowardice, trying to defend a pretence |
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| Farce |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Nov 2018 |
| A card he's playing that's absurd |
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| Pretence |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Jul 2018 |
| Pretence; parlour game |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Jun 2018 |
| . Daily's publicity extremely nice for Hitchcock's movie |
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| Acted-out guessing game clue |
USA Today |
15 Jan 2018 |
| Acted-out guessing game clue |
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| Absurd pretense |
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| Blatant deceit |
The Washington Post Sunday |
26 Nov 2017 |
| It's all an act |
New York Times |
29 Oct 2017 |
| Heard AC broke down; it's a fake |
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| A travesty, fishy fizzy drink? |
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| Announcement in Daily Express leader elicits mockery |
|
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| It's all an act |
|
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| Sham, as boxer punched by Bill after beginning of count |
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| Artists in an African country, finally trace a fake |
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| Blatant pretense |
The Washington Post |
17 Jan 2016 |
| Party performance of Parisian, with cleaner answer given first |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Dec 2015 |
| Travesty |
Newsday |
19 Dec 2015 |
| Travesty |
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| 1963 film starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant |
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| It's a farce to burn a deed partly |
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| Had race fixed as a ridiculous pretence |
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| Cleaner forced to go topless in absurd act |
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| ...and another |
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| Blatant sham |
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| Blatant deception |
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| Going through the motions? |
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| Empty pretense |
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| 1963 Audrey Hepburn thriller |
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| Blatant sham |
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| *Total sham [1963] |
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| Obvious sham |
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| It's an act |
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| It's an act |
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| Bit of silent acting |
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| 1963 Cary Grant film |
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| Blatant deception |
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| Elaborate pretense |
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| Deception |
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| Obvious sham |
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| Acting out of a phrase |
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| Obvious sham |
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| Trick |
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| Blatant pretense |
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| Blatant deception |
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| Pretense |
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| Obvious deception |
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| Pretense |
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| Obvious deceit |
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| Blatant pretense |
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| Obvious deceit |
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| Blatant pretense |
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| 1963 Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn film |
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| Blatant deception |
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| Pretentious deception |
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| Audrey Hepburn-Cary Grant classic |
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| 1963 Hepburn-Grant film |
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| It may involve finger-pointing |
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| Message in mime |
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| Pretense |
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| Elaborate pretense |
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| Pantomime of a sort |
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| Blatant pretense |
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| Travesty |
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| Hepburn-Grant film: 1963 |
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| Parlor-game offering |
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| Parlor-game unit |
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| Pantomimist's act, in a game. |
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| Word guessing game. |
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| "The Game" problem. |
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| Parlor game. |
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| Dramatic riddle. |
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| Guessing game. |
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| Pantomime game. |
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| Hepburn film |
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| Game people play. |
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| Fanciful novel by Edita Morris. |
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| Puzzle in pantomime. |
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| Parlor-game subject |
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