| High-quality | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            25 Oct 2025 | 
          
          
            | Option (6) | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            07 Oct 2025 | 
          
          
            | Excellent selection (6) | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            07 Oct 2025 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            The Sun Mini | 
            24 Jul 2025 | 
          
          
            | Pick clubs and hearts over diamonds | 
            The Times Quick Cryptic | 
            14 Jul 2025 | 
          
          
            | Exquisite selection | 
            The Times Quick Cryptic | 
            11 Jul 2025 | 
          
          
            | Superior selection (6) | 
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            | Superior, ... cuts of meat | 
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            | Best variety (6) | 
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            | Excellent selection | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            30 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            30 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | Decision when both taps froze internally (frozen water) (6) | 
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            | Excellent piece of meat cut off to freeze (6) | 
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            | Superior option (6) | 
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            | Selection | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            07 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Commuter | 
            07 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | Of superior quality | 
            Mirror Tea Time | 
            15 Feb 2025 | 
          
          
            | The best selection to make | 
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            | Our star's movie: Sophie's - | 
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            | Preference for an alternative (6) | 
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            | Pick cooling confection and drop middle- C (6) | 
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            | Especially good | 
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            | Variety is best (6) | 
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            | Excellent selection | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            15 Nov 2024 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            15 Nov 2024 | 
          
          
            | For preference, take a bite out of a choc-ice (6) | 
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            | Option | 
            Mirror Tea Time | 
            28 Sep 2024 | 
          
          
            | Excellent selection | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            08 Sep 2024 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            08 Sep 2024 | 
          
          
            | Truth or dare, say | 
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            | Excellent selection | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            28 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            28 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Pick out centre of choc-ice (6) | 
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            | Various ones from which to pick the flower (6) | 
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            | Get Chico to point to his selection (6) | 
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            | Magnum perhaps, not Colt the preference? | 
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            | Selection | 
            Universal | 
            10 Apr 2024 | 
          
          
            | Beef grade between Select and Prime | 
            Universal | 
            08 Apr 2024 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            07 Apr 2024 | 
          
          
            | Excellent selection | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            07 Apr 2024 | 
          
          
            | Sophie's_, 1983 film starring Meryl Streep | 
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            | President's ___ (Canadian food brand in select grocery stores) | 
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            | Finest ice-cream not cold in the middle | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            20 Feb 2024 | 
          
          
            | Finest ice-cream not cold in the middle (6) | 
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            | A selection | 
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            | Best of all, you have an option (6) | 
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            | Preference, option (6) | 
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            | Treasure | 
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            | There is an alternative option that's excellent (6) | 
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            | Pick the centre out of a cold, brown sweet? | 
            The Times Quick Cryptic | 
            30 Nov 2023 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            28 Nov 2023 | 
          
          
            | Excellent selection | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            28 Nov 2023 | 
          
          
            | Fine | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            04 Jun 2023 | 
          
          
            | Better than good | 
            Newsday | 
            09 Feb 2023 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            09 Feb 2023 | 
          
          
            | Option | 
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            | Decision | 
            Universal | 
            08 Nov 2022 | 
          
          
            | Pick frozen dessert without cold centre | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            13 Oct 2022 | 
          
          
            | First-class | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            16 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | Option, alternative | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            12 Mar 2022 | 
          
          
            | Selection | 
            The Times Concise | 
            10 Mar 2022 | 
          
          
            | Menu offering | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            30 Jan 2022 | 
          
          
            | Select — option | 
            The Guardian Quick | 
            24 Jan 2022 | 
          
          
            | Decision | 
            USA Today | 
            25 Dec 2021 | 
          
          
            | Smart to buy nothing, keeping some earnings for best  | 
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            | The pick of Trim group of singers going to church | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            02 Jun 2021 | 
          
          
            | Option, alternative | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            03 Apr 2021 | 
          
          
            | Select frozen dessert that's not cold in the middle  | 
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            | Plum variety | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            08 Feb 2021 | 
          
          
            | Select sweet with no centre | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            02 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Very fine | 
            Newsday | 
            20 Sep 2020 | 
          
          
            | Exclusive food, but not with cold dessert  | 
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            | Select smart response, finally putting nothing in  | 
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            | Selection | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            16 May 2020 | 
          
          
            | Plum variety  | 
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            | Option | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            16 Apr 2020 | 
          
          
            | Choc-ice centre goes best  | 
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            | A selection from Trim group of singers goes to church | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            25 Oct 2019 | 
          
          
            | First-class option | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            16 Oct 2019 | 
          
          
            | Candidate from Trim group of singers going to church | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            03 May 2019 | 
          
          
            | Carefully selected | 
            Newsday | 
            28 Apr 2019 | 
          
          
            | Selection, option | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            18 Apr 2019 | 
          
          
            | Selection | 
            Newsday | 
            02 Apr 2019 | 
          
          
            | First-rate | 
            New York Times | 
            08 Feb 2019 | 
          
          
            | First-rate group singing in service cut short by church  | 
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            | First-rate | 
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            | Pick | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            12 Nov 2018 | 
          
          
            | Church over frozen water is exquisite  | 
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            | Pick | 
            The Times Concise | 
            19 Aug 2018 | 
          
          
            | A, B, C or D | 
            New York Times | 
            01 Apr 2018 | 
          
          
            | Brill, catfish gutted with gusto, finally chilled  | 
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            | A, B, C or D | 
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            | Selection | 
            Universal | 
            30 Nov 2017 | 
          
          
            | Vulgar option  | 
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            | Option | 
            Universal | 
            19 Jun 2017 | 
          
          
            | Selection | 
            The Times Concise | 
            31 May 2017 | 
          
          
            | Pick house in Channel Islands, by church  | 
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            | Selection of superior quality | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            13 Feb 2017 | 
          
          
            | Selection | 
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            | Option | 
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            | Alternative of superior quality | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            05 Dec 2016 | 
          
          
            | Pick clubs and hearts over diamonds   | 
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            | Pick clubs and hearts over diamonds | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            19 Aug 2016 | 
          
          
            | Superior | 
            The Washington Post | 
            29 Jun 2016 | 
          
          
            | Top-quality | 
            USA Today | 
            11 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | Top-quality | 
            Newsday | 
            02 Mar 2016 | 
          
          
            | Preference | 
            The Washington Post | 
            11 Nov 2015 | 
          
          
            | Pick | 
            Newsday | 
            26 Sep 2015 | 
          
          
            | Top-drawer | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            06 Sep 2015 | 
          
          
            | Say, is that how one attracts someone's attention going from church to church? | 
            Irish Times Crosaire | 
            25 May 2015 | 
          
          
            | Selection option | 
            Newsday | 
            16 Feb 2015 | 
          
          
            | Selection option | 
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            | Pick | 
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            | Preference | 
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            | Top-notch | 
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            | Top-drawer | 
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            | Selection  of superior quality  | 
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            | Select an alternative  | 
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            | Alternative | 
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            | Option | 
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            | Top-quality | 
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            | Preference for cold house leads to chill | 
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            | Prime | 
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            | Multiple-___ (like some exams) | 
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            | Quality | 
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            | Exquisite | 
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            | Quality | 
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            | Preference | 
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            | Preference | 
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            | Beef grade | 
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            | Desirable | 
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            | Superior | 
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            | Alternative | 
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            | Alternative | 
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            | Two from Column B, perhaps | 
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            | Preferred | 
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            | Beef grade | 
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            | Multiple-___ (like some exams) | 
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            | Selection | 
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            | Two from Column B, perhaps | 
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            | Alternative | 
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            | USDA beef grade | 
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            | Selection | 
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            | Pick | 
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            | Between prime and good | 
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            | Not quite prime, as beef | 
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            | Voter's privilege | 
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            | Fine | 
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            | Selection | 
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            | USDA rating | 
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            | Prize | 
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            | Cream | 
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            | High-grade | 
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            | Option | 
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            | Alternative | 
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            | Elite | 
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            | Selection | 
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            | Handpicked | 
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            | Grade of beef | 
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            | See 47 Across | 
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            | Select | 
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            | Extra special | 
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            | Superior. | 
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            | Grade of meat | 
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