| Place name derived from a person |
Puzzler Backwords |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Setter returned carrying £25 Hoover, for one |
The Telegraph Toughie |
29 Aug 2025 |
| Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
31 Jul 2025 |
| Invention or place named after a person |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Jul 2025 |
| Sadly my pen has nothing inside to provide word named after someone (6) |
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| Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
08 Jul 2025 |
| Place named after a person (6) |
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| One for whom something is named |
Premier Sunday |
25 May 2025 |
| Place name derived from a person |
Puzzler Backwords |
18 Apr 2025 |
| Term from a name |
Newsday |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Invention or place named after a person |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Feb 2025 |
| Ohm or joule |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Feb 2025 |
| I'm surprised by refusal to return Caesar salad, say |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Jan 2025 |
| America perhaps putting horse into space? |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Jan 2025 |
| Fake money to procure power diesel, say (6) |
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| Term for a place name derived from the name of a person (6) |
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| Money and first place maybe will get a city named after you (6) |
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| Could this be Jane Eyre writer's emphatic refusal to retire? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Nov 2024 |
| His name is the book title, or poem written out about New York (6) |
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| Georg Ohm or James Watt |
Newsday |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Achilles, for the Achilles tendon |
Universal |
19 Aug 2024 |
| Kind of dash astride horse in St Albans or Telford? |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Jul 2024 |
| Brummie's refusal to do a turn as the title character (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Invention or place named after a person |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Jun 2024 |
| Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Any item whose name derives from a person |
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| Money initially paid to redesign atlas, perhaps (6) |
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| Zeppelin, perhaps lifting me over mount (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
24 Apr 2024 |
| Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Mar 2024 |
| Place name that comes from person in the pony market (6) |
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| Distinguishing title |
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| Word like "boycott" or "Fahrenheit" |
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| See me backing horse entered in Derby for example |
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| See me backing horse entered in Derby for example (6) |
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| A person for whom something is named, or a thing named for a person (6) |
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| Person for whom a thing is named |
Premier Sunday |
11 Feb 2024 |
| Tantalus, to tantalize |
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| One nominally involved? Gosh, no, the reverse of that |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Feb 2024 |
| Distinguishing title needing £25 in European money |
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| Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
23 Jan 2024 |
| Ohm, for one |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Character in book, play, same as title (6) |
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| The seventh earl of Cardigan, for the word "cardigan" |
Universal |
19 Apr 2023 |
| Author's negative response is reflected in titular character |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Apr 2023 |
| This writer's emphatic refusal to withdraw title character |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Feb 2023 |
| Person after whom something is named |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Dec 2022 |
| Sandwich, for example, set me back around £25! |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Dec 2022 |
| Word derived from a name |
The Times Concise |
08 Nov 2022 |
| Setter's firm refusal to retire in Melbourne or Adelaide? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Oct 2022 |
| Hoover, say, setting me back about £25 |
The Times Cryptic |
09 May 2022 |
| Setter about to eat £25 Caesar salad, perhaps |
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| Setter about to eat £25 Caesar salad, perhaps |
The Guardian Cryptic |
06 May 2022 |
| Name juvenile in centre of demo |
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| European horse primarily mentioned in Hamlet, maybe? |
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| Dame Nellie Melba, for Melba toast |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Nov 2021 |
| Cardigan, perhaps around £25, yours truly returned |
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| I'm surprised by refusal to back name-giver |
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| Money including pence changed on Mahatma Gandhi Road, say |
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| Marcel Bich, for Bic |
Universal |
17 Oct 2020 |
| Jacuzzi, for example |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Sep 2020 |
| Person after whom something is named |
The Times Concise |
16 May 2020 |
| Source for many units of physics |
Newsday |
16 Apr 2020 |
| English maiden keeping animal for riding: Black Beauty is one |
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| Alison Bechdel, for the Bechdel test |
Universal |
12 Oct 2019 |
| One turned up clutching £25 for Tom Jones? |
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| Character who gives a play, etc its title |
The Guardian Speedy |
28 Jul 2019 |
| Name derived from a person |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 May 2019 |
| Label derived from name of space occupied by horse |
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| Alison Bechdel, for the Bechdel test |
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| Fahrenheit or Celsius |
Newsday |
24 Nov 2018 |
| Word derived from a name |
Universal |
20 Nov 2018 |
| Name for Goliath up astride horse |
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| Name derived from a name |
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| Name derived from a name |
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| Name-lending person |
Premier Sunday |
15 Jul 2018 |
| Noun formed after a person |
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| George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel |
New York Times |
19 Jun 2018 |
| Silhouette's one small horse breaking into dash |
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| Franz Mesmer, for "mesmerize" |
Universal |
06 Mar 2018 |
| George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel |
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| Word derived from a name |
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| My peon is excited - he's a person after whom something is named |
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| Name of a thing derived from a person |
Universal |
23 Oct 2017 |
| Making money gets first priority — an example is Washington |
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| Word derived from a person's name |
Universal |
23 Jun 2017 |
| Tresses |
Canadiana |
01 May 2017 |
| James Parkinson or Alois Alzheimer |
New York Times |
02 Feb 2017 |
| Word derived from someone's name |
Universal |
15 Jan 2017 |
| Word derived from a person's name |
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| James Parkinson or Alois Alzheimer |
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| Name of a thing derived from a person |
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| Word derived from someone's name |
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| Henry Ford, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
16 Dec 2016 |
| Open my new sandwich, say |
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| Horse breaking into a sort of dash in Dallas or Washington? |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Nov 2016 |
| Horse breaking into a sort of dash in Dallas or Washington? |
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| Item name derived from a person |
Universal |
18 Oct 2016 |
| Name derived from a person |
Universal |
20 Jul 2016 |
| Baron De La Warr or William Penn |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Jul 2016 |
| Tesla or Volta, e.g. |
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| Henry Ford, e.g. |
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| Name derived from a person |
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| Namesake |
Canadiana |
21 Dec 2015 |
| Sousaphone, for one |
LA Times Daily |
21 Aug 2015 |
| Taken name of horse amongst outsiders in Epsom |
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| Record of US city monument's first distinguishing title |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Jul 2015 |
| Word derived from a person's name |
USA Today |
13 Apr 2015 |
| Washington or Lincoln, many times over |
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| Sousaphone, for one |
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| Word derived from a person's name |
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| See 16-Across |
New York Times |
21 Aug 2014 |
| See 16-Across |
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| Person for whom something is named |
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| Arnold Palmer or Shirley Temple, drinkwise |
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| Earl of Sandwich, e.g. |
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| Penn, to Pennsylvania |
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| Euclid, vis-à-vis geometry |
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| Louis Braille or Louis Chevrolet |
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| Jim Beam or Jack Daniel |
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| Watt or Ohm, e.g. |
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| Name-giver |
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| Euclid, vis- -vis geometry |
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| Karl Benz or Henry Ford |
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| Amerigo Vespucci, vis-à-vis America |
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| Karl Benz or Henry Ford |
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| General Shrapnel or Burnside |
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| Rob Roy or Shirley Temple |
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| The Earl of Sandwich, for one |
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| Amerigo Vespucci, vis- -vis America |
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| Person for whom something is named |
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| Person from whom something takes its name |
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| Word derived from a name |
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| Shirley Temple, to Shirley Temples, for one |
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| Penn, to Pennsylvania |
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| Rudolf Diesel, for one |
|
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| Person from whom something is named |
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| Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius |
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| Romulus to Rome, e.g. |
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| Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome |
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| General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro |
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| Romulus, vis- -vis Rome |
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| Name identified with a place |
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| Shirley Temple or Tom Collins |
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| What Romulus was to Rome |
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| Penn, vis- -vis Pennsylvania |
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| Penn, vis-à-vis Pennsylvania |
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| Sam Houston, to Houston |
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| Name derivation |
|
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| Ampère or Watt |
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| Romulus, vis- -vis Rome, e.g. |
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| Named derived from a person |
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| "Mae West" for "life jacket" |
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| Monroe for Monrovia |
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| Rudolf Diesel, re the diesel |
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| Romulus, for one |
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| Romulus, vis- -vis Rome |
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| Thursday from Thor <P>e.g. |
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| Name source |
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| Columbus, to Colombia, e.g. |
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| Name giver of a sort |
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| Person for whom a nation or city is named |
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| Name giver |
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| What William Penn is to Pennsylvania. |
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| Saxophone or sandwich |
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| Ohm or joule, e.g. |
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| Hellen, to Hellenes. |
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| What Penn is to Pennsylvania. |
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| Presumed ancestor of a race, nation, etc. |
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