| Diet regularly abandoned? Lock up pudding! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Nov 2025 |
| Sweet course |
Newsday |
23 Nov 2025 |
| Sweet course of a meal (7) |
Mirror Classic |
15 Nov 2025 |
| Fool possibly from south in wasteland |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Oct 2025 |
| Sweet son stuck in Sahara? (7) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
19 Oct 2025 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Sep 2025 |
| A reward, say, the child gets for eating its vegetables? (7) |
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| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Pud |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Meal's last course |
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| Be told to abandon fattening food (7) |
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| Served as the last course of a meal (7) |
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| Tart or torte |
New York Times |
29 Jun 2025 |
| Sweet son in dry environment (7) |
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| Leave without seconds and pudding (7) |
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| Shortcake or mousse |
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| Pudding or sweet course |
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| Sweet sorghum originally found growing in a dry region (7) |
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| Abandon report in course (7) |
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| Sweet course |
Thomas Joseph |
12 May 2025 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 May 2025 |
| A sweet treat |
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| Sweet with hair put up |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Apr 2025 |
| Pudding |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Apr 2025 |
| A meal course (7) |
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| Sweet course of a meal |
Mirror Classic |
05 Apr 2025 |
| Locked up the ice-cream? (7) |
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| Defect, you say, being perhaps a fool (7) |
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| Told to abandon a sundae! (7) |
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| 'Eating' or 'eater' apples are also known as ___ apples (7) |
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| Sweet sugar initially buried in sand |
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| Pie or cake |
Commuter |
08 Mar 2025 |
| Course with a name derived from the French word for "clear the table" |
New York Times |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Last course to go south in the Sahara (7) |
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| Sweet treat created on MasterChef, maybe (7) |
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| Soprano visiting dry place will have peach Melba? |
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| Initially stuck in desert looking for something sweet (7) |
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| Sweet, pudding (7) |
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| On the ship in the river, right on time for pudding (7) |
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| Sweet, with hair swept up? |
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| Son leaves stressed having returned final course? |
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| Fruit from a parched region round the south (7) |
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| Sweet lock of hair Edward returned (7) |
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| Sweet course eaten after main course of meal (7) |
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| Course to leave, we hear (7) |
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| Final course |
Newsday |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Sweet course |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Nov 2024 |
| Leave, having grabbed a second sweet (7) |
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| Word with wine or bar |
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| Course set south in barren terrain |
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| Locked up as a final course |
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| One of the courses to leave, we hear (7) |
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| Old Bob stuck in sand trap, that's the final course (7) |
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| A course to leave, say (7) |
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| Sweet Sikh leader in middle of arid region (7) |
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| Might be a fool to walk out on, you say (7) |
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| Son entering wasteland - a fool? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
28 Sep 2024 |
| Losing head, stressed about pudding (7) |
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| In the Sahara oasis finally provides what may be last course (7) |
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| Leave the pudding it's said (7) |
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| Cake or sundae |
Commuter |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Sweet course |
Commuter |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Fool, possibly, principally serving in arid waste |
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| Stressed to go up without starting pudding (7) |
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| Leave about a quarter of the fruit course |
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| Leave clutching a small sweet (7) |
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| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Aug 2024 |
| Sweet dish |
Commuter |
29 Jul 2024 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Jul 2024 |
| A final course upbraided |
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| 'Afters' one will leave around top of sideboard (7) |
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| Getting a direction in dry place is the last course (7) |
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| You might leave room for it |
New York Times |
25 Jun 2024 |
| After-dinner treat |
Commuter |
21 Jun 2024 |
| Leave clutching a second sweet (7) |
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| Pudding in the Sahara doubled up in the middle (7) |
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| Part of the meal you leave, we hear (7) |
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| A sweet course to take |
New York Times Mini |
04 May 2024 |
| Fruit course (7) |
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| Afters (7) |
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| Ice cream or cheesecake |
USA Today |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Give up on eating small sweet |
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| Walk out, say, on the course (7) |
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| Said to leave, the fool? (7) |
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| There's one in the answer to each asterisked clue (7) |
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| Abandon, I hear, the course that follows the main (7) |
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| Meal's final course |
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| Course that may be a piece of cake |
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| Food locked up |
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| Sweet course (7) |
Puzzler |
28 Feb 2024 |
| Final course of a meal |
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| Pudding made by first settler in the Gobi (7) |
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| Abandon said course (7) |
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| Desert around Sudan's capital supplies last course of meal (7) |
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| Did you say, 'Abandon the final course?' (7) |
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| Some French lock brought up pudding (7) |
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| Sweet meal closer, like ice cream or cake |
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| Sweet with hair pulled back |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Dec 2023 |
| Pudding |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Dec 2023 |
| What might secure the bucks, ship bound for Madeira? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
28 Nov 2023 |
| What might secure the bucks, ship bound for Madeira? (7,4) |
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| A sweet course following the main (7) |
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| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Nov 2023 |
| Reportedly abandon pudding (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
07 Nov 2023 |
| Final course |
Newsday |
28 Sep 2023 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Sep 2023 |
| Pudding or pie, e.g. |
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| Fool, say, beginning to succumb in wilderness |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 May 2023 |
| Ice cream or tiramisu, e.g. |
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| Sweet course |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Apr 2023 |
| Defect son's spotted in course |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Apr 2023 |
| Apple crumble or banana split |
USA Today |
21 Mar 2023 |
| Abandon swallowing small sweet |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Mar 2023 |
| Last item on a dinner course, usually |
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| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Feb 2023 |
| Sweet course |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Jan 2023 |
| Sweet course |
The Times Concise |
22 Nov 2022 |
| Lock editor up, fool? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Nov 2022 |
| Sweet course: son tucked into justly earned thing |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Nov 2022 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Jul 2022 |
| By the sound of it, abandon course |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Sweet course |
LA Times Daily |
24 May 2022 |
| Sweet course |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 May 2022 |
| Final order, often |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Jan 2022 |
| Madeleine or Napoleon |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2022 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Nov 2021 |
| Heading off, worried about fool? |
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| What's served last |
Newsday |
24 Jun 2021 |
| Sweet |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Jun 2021 |
| Sweet course |
Irish Times Simplex |
29 May 2021 |
| Sweet conclusion |
Newsday |
25 Apr 2021 |
| Pudding |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Apr 2021 |
| Charlotte, perhaps, with hair up |
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| Course hinted at by this puzzle |
Universal |
12 Jan 2021 |
| It's usually downed last |
The Washington Post |
19 Nov 2020 |
| It's usually downed last |
LA Times Daily |
19 Nov 2020 |
| Ending course |
LA Times Daily |
05 Sep 2020 |
| Ending course |
The Washington Post |
05 Sep 2020 |
| . Sweet son gets stuck in enormous sandpit? |
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| Topping for a 25-Across |
New York Times |
05 Jul 2020 |
| Pudding |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Sweet with hair put up |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Jun 2020 |
| Part of a meal that the British call 'afters' |
New York Times |
16 Jun 2020 |
| Last item on a dinner course, usually |
|
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| Napoleon, for one |
The Washington Post |
29 May 2020 |
| Napoleon, for one |
LA Times Daily |
29 May 2020 |
| Sweet son entering wasteland |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Apr 2020 |
| Course designers ultimately admitted to waste |
|
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| Skipping starter, worried about pudding |
|
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| Pie, e.g |
Universal |
03 Jun 2019 |
| Pie or pudding |
Family Time |
07 Apr 2019 |
| Word from the French for "clear the table" |
LA Times Daily |
10 Mar 2019 |
| Word from the French for 'clear the table' |
The Washington Post |
10 Mar 2019 |
| 'Life is short -- eat ___ first' |
New York Times |
19 Feb 2019 |
| "Life is short -- eat ___ first" |
|
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| Word from the French for "clear the table" |
|
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| Pie, e.g. |
|
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| Christmas pudding maybe with hair turning up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Dec 2018 |
| Napoleon, for one |
New York Times |
14 Dec 2018 |
| Perhaps split, braided to left |
|
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| Sweet course |
The Times Concise |
23 Oct 2018 |
| Sweet of the French, very French tipping |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Sep 2018 |
| Sugary menu course |
Newsday |
20 Aug 2018 |
| Feast finale |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Arabian, possibly, consuming small pudding |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Mar 2018 |
| Course skipped by dieters |
USA Today |
19 Mar 2018 |
| Last course |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Jan 2018 |
| Napoleon, for one |
|
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| Sweet course |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Jan 2018 |
| Course that a Brit calls "afters" |
USA Today |
11 Nov 2017 |
| Fool perhaps having braided hair put up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Nov 2017 |
| Pie, e.g |
Premier Sunday |
10 Sep 2017 |
| Some French group eating first bit of rice pudding? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Apr 2017 |
| Fool perhaps taking sun in arid environment |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Apr 2017 |
| Sandy area covers beginning of St. Andrews' final course |
|
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| Course that a Brit calls "afters" |
|
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| Course taken last |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Dec 2016 |
| Course skipped by a dieter |
USA Today |
21 Oct 2016 |
| Order that's rarely followed? |
New York Times |
02 Sep 2016 |
| Calorie counter's temptation |
New York Times |
19 Jun 2016 |
| Final order of things? |
New York Times |
10 Jun 2016 |
| Leave, having eaten the last bit of Christmas pudding |
|
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| Leave around second course after main |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Jan 2016 |
| Piece of cake, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jan 2016 |
| Dieter's downfall |
The Washington Post |
10 Jan 2016 |
| Styled one's hair over pudding |
|
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| Order that's rarely followed? |
|
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| Course skipped by a dieter |
|
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| Calorie counter's temptation |
|
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| Final order of things? |
|
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| Piece of cake, e.g. |
|
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| Popular course |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Dec 2015 |
| Back-page menu item, maybe |
New York Times |
20 Oct 2015 |
| Reportedly forsake dry land |
|
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| Leave bottles stocked primarily for end of meal |
|
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| Sweet, afters |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Aug 2015 |
| Deserts cook in the bakery |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Coarse-sounding son's in the wilderness |
|
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| Sweet, having hair swept back |
|
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| Leave without second course |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Apr 2015 |
| Popular course |
|
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| Back-page menu item, maybe |
|
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| Check preceder |
|
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| Final order |
|
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| Sweet course |
|
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| Piece of cake, perhaps |
|
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| Blondie, for example |
|
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| It comes last, locked in reverse |
|
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| Pudding or pie |
|
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| Leave without a second course |
|
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| Upbraided a fool, perhaps |
|
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| Course that might involve cake |
|
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| Sweet serving, often |
|
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| Sweet serving, often |
|
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| See 12 Down |
|
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| Brits call it afters |
|
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| Sweet finish |
|
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| Final course |
|
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| Meal closer, often |
|
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| Course that's commonly skipped |
|
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| Pie or pudding |
|
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| Finishing course |
|
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| Finishing course |
|
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| A sweet finish |
|
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| See 17-Across |
|
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| Sweet menu course |
|
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| Course shunned by losers? |
|
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| Check preceder? |
|
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| There's sometimes no room for it |
|
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| Word from the French for "clear the table" |
|
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| Ultimate course |
|
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| Ultimate course |
|
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| Course shunned by losers? |
|
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| Menu course |
|
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| Pudding or cake |
|
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| Kind of menu |
|
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| Calorific course |
|
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| Something a loser may skip |
|
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| Dinner course |
|
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| Napoleon, e.g. |
|
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| Kind of menu |
|
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| Pie or cake |
|
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| Baked Alaska, e.g. |
|
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| Meal closer |
|
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| Ice, e.g. |
|
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| Final course |
|
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| Baklava, for one |
|
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| Closing course |
|
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| Concluding course |
|
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| A sweet finish |
|
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| Split, e.g. |
|
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| Trifle, perhaps |
|
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| Last course |
|
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| Closing course |
|
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| Ambrosia, for one |
|
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| Brits call it afters |
|
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| Divinity, at times |
|
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| Baked Alaska, e.g. |
|
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| Check preceder, often |
|
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| Pastry chef's specialty |
|
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| Feast finale |
|
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| Dinner course |
|
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| What a loser may skip |
|
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| Ice cream or cake, maybe |
|
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| Ice cream or pie |
|
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| Final offering |
|
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| Last course |
|
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| Sweet ending |
|
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| Banquet ender |
|
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| Napoleon, for one |
|
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| Mousse, maybe |
|
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| Mousse, maybe |
|
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| Piece of cake, maybe |
|
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| Time for some wines |
|
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| Pie or pudding |
|
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| Sweet treat |
|
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| Last course |
|
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| Feast finale |
|
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| Final course, often |
|
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| Dinner course |
|
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| Napoleon, at times |
|
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| Meal ender |
|
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| You may not have room for it |
|
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| Restaurant course |
|
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| Sweet course |
|
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| Baked Alaska, e.g. |
|
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| Check preceder? |
|
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| Banquet finale |
|
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| Mousse, e.g. |
|
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| Napoleon, at times |
|
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| Trifle, for one |
|
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| Calorie-crammed course |
|
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| Tapioca pudding, e.g. |
|
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| Last course |
|
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| Charlotte russe, for one |
|
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| Tutti-frutti e.g. |
|
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| Finisher of a sort |
|
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| Piece of cake, maybe |
|
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| Finishing order |
|
|
| A subject of puns herein |
|
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| Pastry or pudding |
|
|
| Menu entry |
|
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| Peach Melba, for one |
|
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| Peaches and cream, e.g. |
|
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| Menu entry |
|
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| Mousse, e.g. |
|
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| Sweet course, usually |
|
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| Napoleon, e.g. |
|
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| Meal course |
|
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| Pie or parfait |
|
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| Dinner course |
|
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| Ice, at times |
|
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| Calorie course |
|
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| Dinner's end |
|
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| Bombe, for one |
|
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| Menu item |
|
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| See 14 Across. |
|
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| Turnover, e.g. |
|
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| Baked Alaska. |
|
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| Pie à la mode. |
|
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| Pie, cake, etc. |
|
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| Dieter's nemesis. |
|
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| Trifle, for instance. |
|
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| Final treat. |
|
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| Napolean. |
|
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| Watermelon, for example. |
|
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| Floating island, for one. |
|
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| See 1 Down. |
|
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| Dinner sweet. |
|
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| Parfait, for example. |
|
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| Plum pudding. |
|
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| Shortcake. |
|
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| Parfait. |
|
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| Last course. |
|
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| Sweet treat. |
|
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| Sweet. |
|
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| Menu item. |
|
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| Part of a feast. |
|
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| Chef's specialty. |
|
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| Meal course. |
|
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| Dinner course. |
|
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| Apple pie. |
|
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