| Musician beginning to drink with stranger |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
13 Oct 2025 |
| Baffling murder requiring input of Met's chief skin specialist? |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Sep 2025 |
| Musician who uses sticks or brushes (7) |
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| Member of band, perhaps, finally accepted stranger |
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| One who plays a percussion instrument (7) |
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| In America a commercial traveller might beat a tattoo (7) |
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| What did Gene Krupa find fame as? (7) |
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| The member of a rock group who drives the beat (7) |
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| This kind of boy couldn't operate without getting the stick! (7) |
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| One beating master in gruesome murder |
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| Timpanist (7) |
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| Beater certainly making himself heard! (7) |
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| One musician who knows when to beat it |
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| Percussionist, Ringo Starr, eg |
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| Band member departs with stranger |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Oct 2024 |
| Director given more peculiar percussionist (7) |
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| Rhythm-beating musician (7) |
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| Percussionist |
Mirror Classic |
18 Aug 2024 |
| Larry Mullen Jr fulfils this role for rock band U2 (7) |
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| One beating Animal in kids' series The Muppet Show (7) |
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| Democrat, comparatively droll American rep |
The Times Mephisto |
26 May 2024 |
| Moon or Starr, e.g. |
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| Group member drawn with stranger (7) |
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| Band member use to be a commercial traveller (7) |
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| Musician who uses sticks (7) |
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| Stick-wielding member of a rock band (7) |
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| Starr or Moon, for instance, plays bongo (7) |
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| Percussionist daughter getting increasingly weird |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Jan 2024 |
| Percussionist |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Director facing more peculiar percussionist (7) |
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| "Topper" Headon replaced Terry Chimes in the rock group The Clash as what? (7) |
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| Ringo, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Mar 2023 |
| Timpanist, e.g. |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Oct 2022 |
| Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts, for example |
The Guardian Quick |
13 Jul 2022 |
| Stranger at back of band? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Mar 2022 |
| I am a "little boy" from a popular Christmas carol where I play an instrument |
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| "The Little ___ Girl," 1984 spy film starring Diane Keaton as Charlie |
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| Keith Moon or John Bonham |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Aug 2021 |
| Percussion player |
The Times Concise |
02 Aug 2021 |
| Best in The Beatles, once? |
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| One employed to drive the band? |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jun 2021 |
| Percussionist |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Nov 2020 |
| One producing hit for band? |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Nov 2020 |
| Musician's introduction to dark stranger |
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| Collins, for one, is funnier after OED's tip |
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| Moon was one day on right: no sun in season |
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| Musician's starting to dance with stranger |
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| Spirit and medium protected by the German down in the pit |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Mar 2019 |
| Percussionist beginning to drink spirit by sea in Boulogne? |
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| Musician‘s introduction to dark stranger |
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| 22's doctor needing season to start late |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Mar 2018 |
| Date with stranger musician |
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| Embarrassed over hugging weird male member of rock band |
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| REM comeback follows band's finale with strange musician |
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| Moon was this close to asteroid, more suspect |
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| Band member |
The Times Concise |
25 May 2016 |
| Spirit and medium protected by the German-American sales rep |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 Dec 2015 |
| Beat keeper |
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| Rock-band member |
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| Ringo, e.g. |
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| Member of a rock band |
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| Part of a rock band |
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| Thoreau's different one |
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| Commercial traveler. |
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| Member of a combo. |
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| Traveling salesman. |
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| Could be Gene Krupa. |
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