| Like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, as of August |
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| 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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| Booked - for a forthcoming wedding (7) |
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| Busy filling the bottom drawer (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 |
| Old England first to be married soon, possibly(7) |
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| Busy hired workers? (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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| Busy in readiness to form a union? (7) |
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| Took one on a busy line (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 |
| May as well ring off - or ring on (7) |
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| Pledged a green variety of plum in the end (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 a funny man s line, in need of change (7) |
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| Took on the enemy (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 |
| Employed faceless men to silence Snowden (7) |
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| Having given a hand was fully occupied (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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| Good time in bowls game promised |
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| Occupied by gang working to block river up (7) |
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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 |
| Betrothed |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Busy, and furious dismissing Republican for good |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
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 |
| Hired having accepted proposal |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Jan 2016 |
| Affianced |
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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| Busy doing something |
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| Hold fast |
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| Signed up in preparation for match |
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| Committed to complete wearing a glove |
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| Bound to be hitched |
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| Soon to get hooked |
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| Busy |
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| Listening, say |
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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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| Planning to marry |
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| Committed to tying the knot |
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| Having a certain ring? |
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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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| Busy. |
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| Ringed, as a belle |
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| Having a certain ring, say |
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| Busied |
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| Began a conflict. |
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| Promised. |
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| Betrothed. |
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