| Today's pie virtually ruined — miserable state |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Oct 2023 |
| The world of 'Ready Player One,' e.g. |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Oct 2023 |
| Dismal vision |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Oct 2022 |
| Terrible state of duck in pasty I'd cooked |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Aug 2022 |
| Nightmare as State knocked back help outside year block |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Jun 2022 |
| Depressing sci-fi setting |
Universal |
10 May 2022 |
| Mince pasty I'd stuffed with nothing in awful state |
The Guardian Cryptic |
11 Mar 2022 |
| Mince pasty I'd stuffed with nothing in awful state |
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| Nobody stop Ian describing the worst of all worlds |
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| Gilead in 'The Handmaid's Tale,' for one |
New York Times |
25 Aug 2021 |
| Post-apocalyptic society, say |
The Washington Post Sunday |
08 Aug 2021 |
| Help revolutionary over variable period in US |
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| Unfortunately it's a dopy state that's as far from perfection as possible |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Nov 2019 |
| Undesirable place |
The Times Concise |
23 Jun 2019 |
| Deplorable state of poor sod — a pity! |
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| Detective in today's rag depicts how bad things were in 1984, for example |
Irish Times Crosaire |
22 Jan 2019 |
| Work in a sty, I'd fancy there's no worse place |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Dec 2018 |
| Literally, Greek for "bad place" |
LA Times Daily |
19 Aug 2018 |
| Literally, Greek for 'bad place' |
The Washington Post |
19 Aug 2018 |
| Literally, Greek for "bad place" |
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| Imaginary place where all is bad |
The Times Concise |
23 Mar 2017 |
| 1984, for one, appearing good in among today's chaos |
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| One after tips in dingy bar — a horrible place |
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| Having a variable identity, as suggested by four squares in this puzzle |
New York Times |
01 Sep 2016 |
| Move daisy - pot is in the worst place imaginable |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Aug 2016 |
| "The Hunger Games" universe, e.g. |
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| Built spy to aid Orwellian 1984-like setting |
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| Dismal day about to end with one in dismal situation |
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| Orwellian state |
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| Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451" |
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| Undesirable society type depicted in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" |
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| Paradise's opposite |
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| The London of "Brave New World," e.g. |
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| Utopia's antithesis |
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