Busy |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Jul 2025 |
Committed to being betrothed (7) |
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Busy engineer getting on |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
29 May 2025 |
The last of cheese soufflé and egg sandwiches spoken for |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 May 2025 |
Already in use |
The Times Concise |
15 May 2025 |
Bound by promise in use |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 May 2025 |
Occupied |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 May 2025 |
Not yet married when put on the payroll (7) |
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Betrothed to wed |
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Unavailable and expecting to be in match? (7) |
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Promised another way of writing Old English? |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Mar 2025 |
Soon to be married |
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Given a ring and taken on by employer (7) |
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Fought against getting committed in a partnership (7) |
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Busy phone tone, ___ signal |
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Planning to get married |
Commuter |
24 Jan 2025 |
Hired for a wedding? (7) |
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Is promised, so got in gear (7) |
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Occupied |
Puzzler Backwords |
08 Jan 2025 |
Occupied |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Dec 2024 |
Having ring on when you cannot ring? (7) |
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Busy (of a phone line) (7) |
Puzzler |
23 Dec 2024 |
Gad! Gene is crazy to be betrothed |
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Employed girl's first to grow up in an outer district (7) |
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Hired for a future wedding? (7) |
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Hired in preparation for knot tying? (7) |
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Groom could be this close, holding muzzle and tail of mare |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Nov 2024 |
Betrothed, set to be married (7) |
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Taken on ___ as prospective partners? (7) |
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Busy |
Puzzler Backwords |
16 Nov 2024 |
Committed to taking the plunge |
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Got into gear but otherwise in use (7) |
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Booked ___ for a forthcoming wedding (7) |
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Busy filling the bottom drawer (7) |
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Booked - for a forthcoming wedding (7) |
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Occupied before marriage (7) |
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Being betrothed, went into battle! (7) |
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Fully occupied in preparing for wedding? (7) |
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Busy when given a ring? |
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Busy (of a phone line) (7) |
The Sun Mini |
07 Sep 2024 |
Busy hired workers? (7) |
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Old England first to be married soon, possibly(7) |
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Busy having been given a job |
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Drew into conversation, as promised (7) |
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Busy giving a pledge about the last part (7) |
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Booked as promised |
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Betrothed |
The Times Concise |
06 Jul 2024 |
Engrossed in getting into gear? (7) |
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A word meaning 'busy' or 'spoken for in marriage' (7) |
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Betrothed to be married (7) |
Puzzler |
03 Jun 2024 |
Occupied with wedding commitments? (7) |
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A word meaning both 'unavailable' and 'due to be married' (7) |
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Took one on a busy line (7) |
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Busy in readiness to form a union? (7) |
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Occupied |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Apr 2024 |
Busy planning to marry |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Apr 2024 |
Needing to make arrangements for the match? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
24 Apr 2024 |
Pledged a green variety of plum in the end (7) |
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May as well ring off - or ring on (7) |
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Busy? Need to get high, snorting crack |
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Hired (employee) |
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Hired a Ringmaster and got the busy tone |
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Busy getting united! (7) |
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Busy newspaper chief swallows an egg salad |
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Employed to break egg, Dean? |
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Hired for a forthcoming wedding? (7) |
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Took on the enemy (7) |
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Took on a funny man s line, in need of change (7) |
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Not free to wed |
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Terrible need to hold gag when tied up (7) |
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Busy |
The Guardian Quick |
14 Feb 2024 |
Having given a hand was fully occupied (7) |
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Employed faceless men to silence Snowden (7) |
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English old people can be reserved |
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Betrothed and already fighting! |
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Pledged to be married |
Mirror Classic |
21 Jan 2024 |
Hired for marriage? |
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Hired |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Jan 2024 |
Fighting and not yet married! |
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Occupied by gang working to block river up (7) |
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Good time in bowls game promised |
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In use as promised (7) |
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Busy nurse having good time with daughter |
The Guardian Cryptic |
31 Oct 2023 |
Joke in Seinfeld occasionally being used by someone else |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Jul 2023 |
Busy preparing for wedding |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Jul 2023 |
Set to wed |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Jun 2023 |
Promised in marriage |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Apr 2023 |
Set to wed |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Feb 2023 |
What fiancee is tied up? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Feb 2023 |
Attentive |
USA Today |
29 Oct 2022 |
Bound for the altar |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Oct 2022 |
Joke framed by English chap promised in marriage |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Sep 2022 |
Affianced |
The Guardian Speedy |
04 Sep 2022 |
In consequence good time promised |
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Affianced |
The Guardian Speedy |
03 Apr 2022 |
Betrothed |
The Guardian Quick |
11 Dec 2021 |
Aim to keep good time as promised |
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Planning to marry |
USA Today |
20 Nov 2021 |
Like many a wedding planner |
LA Times Daily |
18 Nov 2021 |
Busy, and furious dismissing Republican for good |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Sep 2021 |
Betrothed |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Sep 2021 |
Betrothed |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Aug 2021 |
A gent's sign recalling for the most part Degas' Odd Characters of Ganges |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Jul 2021 |
Hired to provide evidence that ladies are being used |
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In conclusion, good time promised |
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Desperate need to consume crack, heading for altar |
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Betrothed |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Apr 2021 |
In from France, joke with editor, busy |
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Occupied |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Nov 2020 |
Busy planning to marry |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Nov 2020 |
Busy |
Newsday |
17 Oct 2020 |
Working, as one intended? |
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. Not ringing with a ring? |
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Took part of our tongue, in short well past its sell-by date? |
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English got older and was busy |
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Busy preparing for match? |
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Busy wearing a ring? |
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Tied up -- and about to tie the knot |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Jul 2019 |
Occupied, having good time in consequence |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Jul 2019 |
Promised to employ Democrat |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Jun 2019 |
English pensioners spoken for? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
23 May 2019 |
Betrothed |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jan 2019 |
Promised to be busy |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Jan 2019 |
Busy, occupied |
The Times Concise |
29 Aug 2018 |
Busy with aim to embrace something green? |
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Planning to wed |
LA Times Daily |
08 Aug 2018 |
Planning to wed |
The Washington Post |
08 Aug 2018 |
Hired; busy |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Jul 2018 |
Spoken for, in a way |
The New Yorker |
23 Jul 2018 |
Busy; employed |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jun 2018 |
Occupied |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Mar 2018 |
In desperate need, silence promised |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jan 2018 |
Bethrothed |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Jan 2018 |
Busy, // having committed to wedding |
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Planning to wed |
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Promised in marriage |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Nov 2017 |
Kept busy by one who is altar-bound? |
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Set to wed |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Oct 2017 |
This signal leaves you speechless for a time |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Apr 2017 |
Plighted; hired |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Mar 2017 |
Angry on losing Romeo, girl came on board and agreed to marry |
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Took on mature engineer |
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Occupied, showing purpose -- good time to get stuck in |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Aug 2016 |
Tied up or about to tie the knot |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Aug 2016 |
Sign in bathroom normally has a ring to it |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 Jul 2016 |
Busy |
New York Times |
19 Jun 2016 |
Is occupied, having entered into conflict |
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Occupied in planning to marry |
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Hired as worker committed to union |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Apr 2016 |
Affianced |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Jan 2016 |
Hired having accepted proposal |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Jan 2016 |
Busy |
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Cloth stuffed in mouth in desperate need to be tied up |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Jun 2015 |
No ring -- and due to be married! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Jun 2015 |
Busy and need to work in silence? Quite the opposite |
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Intending to marry with aim to secure good number of years |
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Hold fast |
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Busy doing something |
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Signed up in preparation for match |
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Committed to complete wearing a glove |
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Busy |
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Bound to be hitched |
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Listening, say |
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Soon to get hooked |
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Tied up |
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Tied up |
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Like a bride-to-be |
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Having a certain ring? |
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Committed to tying the knot |
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Planning to marry |
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Headed for matrimony |
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Fit to be tied? |
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Betrothed |
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Pledged in marriage |
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Earnest |
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Altar-bound |
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Betrothed |
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Affianced |
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Began a conflict. |
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Having a certain ring, say |
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Promised. |
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Ringed, as a belle |
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Busy. |
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Busied |
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Betrothed. |
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