| Which language has the greatest number of speakers? (7) |
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| He's nice oriental (7) |
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| From Shanghai, eg |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jul 2025 |
| Asian nieces playing with horse |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jul 2025 |
| Mandarin inches out, going east (7) |
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| Oriental church in newly developed see |
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| From Beijing, e.g. |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Jul 2025 |
| He's nice, having moved from Shenzhen? |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Jul 2025 |
| From Chengdu or Nanjing, eg (7) |
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| Sinaean (7) |
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| Hong Kong tongue |
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| From Xi'an or Xining |
USA Today |
05 May 2025 |
| Bit of machine sewing for David Yip's detective (7) |
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| Mandarin or Cantonese |
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| Eastern variation on a French cut (7) |
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| Oriental |
Mirror Quick |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Eastern feature to see off |
Mirror Cryptic |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Oriental child I had seen playing with (7) |
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| (& 5-across) Each big absence is problematic for Green (7,7) |
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| He's nice for providing a meal (7) |
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| From Shanghai or Beijing |
Commuter |
07 Mar 2025 |
| These whispers change as they pass from person to person |
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| Hence I translate the second into a foreign language (7) |
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| The feature, see, has been translated from a foreign language (7) |
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| Language family that includes Mandarin (7) |
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| The feature, see, is translated into a foreign language (7) |
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| Like the game mahjong |
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| One official language of the U.N. |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jan 2025 |
| - knot, decoration in box F (7) |
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| Such language from Chairman Mao! |
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| ___ checkers (board game played with marbles) (7) |
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| Beijing natives |
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| Like wushu or mahjongg |
USA Today |
02 Jan 2025 |
| Sinic (7) |
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| Foreigner the child and I had seen running (7) |
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| Cantonese, Szechuan, eg |
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| _ chequers, board-game (7) |
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| Mandarin that he's nice to distribute (7) |
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| From Guangzhou, say |
Commuter |
23 Nov 2024 |
| The Asian child I had seen running by (7) |
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| Chow mein, sweet and sour pork, eg: - food |
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| Prominent feature with three points for Asian cuisine (7) |
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| With 44-Down, yuan? |
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| Takeaway food (7) |
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| Kiwi is Sinic for a gooseberry (7) |
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| Sinic gooseberry for a Kiwi (7) |
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| Like some jade carvings |
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| Nationality of a Mandarin-speaker (7) |
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| See improvement - first feature tongue (7) |
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| Oriental church is newly developed see |
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| She gets involved with nice Asiatic (7) |
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| Of the very populous country |
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| Popular ethnic restaurant |
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| Mandarin ___, language you'd hear in Beijing, and one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world with around 1.1 billion speakers |
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| (and 5 Across) Zinc oxide pigment mixed in with cheese (7,5) |
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| He's nice, perhaps, and from the East (7) |
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| Since he translated this language (7) |
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| Asian revolutionary recruits Spanish woman |
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| From Beijing (7) |
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| Physalis alkekengi, herbaceous perennial that is commonly called - - - - - - - lantern (7) |
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| Greek character seen to order in restaurant (7) |
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| Language which is written down (7) |
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| Language traditionally written down (7) |
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| Greek character possibly seen as Oriental |
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| He's nice for a foreigner! (7) |
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| She gets involved with nice oriental (7) |
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| ...since he needed to change the language? (7) |
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| Mandarin, for instance (7) |
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| From Shanghai, say |
Commuter |
10 Apr 2024 |
| Nationality of movie detective, Charlie Chan |
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| An Asian nationality (7) |
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| Mandarin, for example, since he is different (7) |
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| Foreign child I had seen playing with (7) |
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| Internal machines embody a sort of collapsible lantern (7) |
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| Language of a revolutionary hiding at home near the centre of Oswestry (7) |
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| Grauman's ___ Theatre |
TV |
21 Jan 2024 |
| Oriental child I had seen running by (7) |
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| Oriental cooking |
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| E.g. from Beijing (7) |
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| What might lead to whispers from Wuhan? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Oct 2023 |
| 'American Born ___,' prize-winning graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang |
New York Times |
13 Jun 2023 |
| Like fan-tan and feng shui |
Wall Street Journal |
24 May 2023 |
| Takeout option with egg rolls |
LA Times Daily |
28 Mar 2023 |
| From Zhengzhou or Shenzhen |
Universal |
22 Mar 2023 |
| Group of tonal languages |
New York Times |
11 Dec 2022 |
| Eastern language |
The Times Concise |
25 Oct 2022 |
| Like the game mah-jongg |
Universal |
22 Sep 2022 |
| Mandarin —; — gooseberry |
The Times Concise |
15 Aug 2022 |
| About 18% of all people |
Wall Street Journal |
14 May 2022 |
| Group of languages that includes Hakka and Mandarin |
USA Today |
17 Mar 2022 |
| Husband welcomed by excited nieces from Shanghai? |
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| Foreigners popular for some eccentricity in Old Amsterdam, perhaps? |
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| Shanghai language |
Thomas Joseph |
05 May 2021 |
| Like gunpowder and the seismometer, by origin |
New York Times |
15 Sep 2020 |
| Unsettled, since he is from a far country |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Aug 2020 |
| Cuisine with chow mein |
Newsday |
18 May 2020 |
| More than a billion people found in machine search |
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| Takeout that often comes with chopsticks |
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| Takeout option |
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| Inventors of the compass and movable type |
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| Nationality after which red and white pigments are named |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
22 Sep 2019 |
| Eastern language |
The Times Concise |
15 Aug 2019 |
| From Shanghai, say? |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Aug 2019 |
| Of the most populous country |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Apr 2019 |
| Cantonese, e.g |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Mar 2019 |
| He's nice, having moved from Shenzhen? |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Mar 2019 |
| Awfully nice, she is from an Asian country |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jan 2019 |
| Famously moreish grub? Feasted on and off, after having part by mouth |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 May 2018 |
| Extraordinarily nice, she is from a far country |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Jan 2018 |
| Asian revolutionary accommodating fashionable French art |
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| Takeout cuisine choice |
Universal |
17 Dec 2017 |
| Backbone shown by South-East Asian |
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| Neighbour inches away, close to Pune |
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| Takeout cuisine choice |
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| Boxes within boxes |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Nov 2016 |
| Language used by machines extensively |
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| Language used by machines extensively |
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| Word before "checkers" or "zodiac" |
USA Today |
28 Apr 2015 |
| Eastern tea joints, by the sound of it? |
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| Popular takeout option |
New York Times |
14 Jan 2015 |
| Word before "checkers" or "zodiac" |
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| Popular takeout option |
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| Takeout choice |
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| Like virtually all gold medalists in Olympic table tennis |
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| Word before checkers or New Year |
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| Beijing-born, say |
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| Language that's the source of the words answered by this puzzle's starred clues |
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| Like dim sum |
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| Beijing-born, say |
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| Like many a 12-Down |
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| Common takeout cuisine |
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| With 39-Across, convenience that might include the dish spelled out by the first few letters of the answers to 16-, 22-, 50- and 60-Across |
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| With 39-Across, convenience that might include the dish spelled out by the first few letters of the answers to 16-, 22-, 50- and 60-Across |
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| Like many a 12-Down |
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| Common takeout cuisine |
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| Boxers, by birth |
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| Something full of interesting characters? |
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| Takeout option |
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| Takeout option |
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| The talk of Taiwan |
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| Lantern type |
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| Lantern type |
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| Food often taken out |
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| Official UN language |
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| Food often taken out |
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| It can precede the start of 6- and 48-Across and 28-Down |
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| It can precede the start of 6- and 48-Across and 28-Down |
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| Some takeout |
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| Takeout choice |
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| Like dim sum |
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| Like acupuncture |
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| Like acupuncture |
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| With 45-Across, what this puzzle's quote is |
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| Takeout option |
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| __ boxes (nested group) |
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| Takeout choice |
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| From Peking |
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| Like fan-tan and tangrams |
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| Takeout choice |
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| Kind of wall |
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| Hailing from Hunan |
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| Takeout order |
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| Takeout cuisine |
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| Kind of lantern |
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| Hong Kong residents, now |
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| Common cuisine |
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| Nepalese neighbors |
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| One-fifth of humankind |
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| Taipei natives |
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| Certain checkers |
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| Hakka or Wu |
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| Kind of checkers |
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| People in Pearl Buck's "Sons" |
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| Pearl Buck people |
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| Kind of puzzle |
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| Transients on Formosa. |
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| 463,493,000 people. |
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| People in "The Good Earth." |
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| Oriental. |
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| Victims of Jap co-prosperity. |
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| Shade of red |
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| Mao's men. |
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| Mandarin. |
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| Take-out option |
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| Allies in Asia. |
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| Celestial allies. |
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| People engaged in civil war. |
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| Subjects of the Mongol Emperor. |
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| Asian. |
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| Members of U. N. |
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| ___ white. |
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| Victims of communism. |
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| 463,493,418 people. |
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| 475 million people. |
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