| Reckon gout eases on and off (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
14 Mar 2026 |
| "Educated" or "wild" thing |
LA Times Mini |
21 Feb 2026 |
| Stab |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Feb 2026 |
| One can be wild or educated |
USA Today |
02 Feb 2026 |
| Estimate (5) |
Mirror Quick |
28 Jan 2026 |
| Rogues serious about theory (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
28 Jan 2026 |
| Argues strongly, concealing estimate (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Jan 2026 |
| Form rough judgement of people at party wasting time |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Jan 2026 |
| Word that means "estimate" and ends with "ss" |
|
|
| ___ Who's Coming to Dinner, Spencer Tracy film (5) |
Puzzler |
06 Jan 2026 |
| Take a stab |
Newsday |
04 Jan 2026 |
| Stab |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Dec 2025 |
| Think hotel customer must come to different conclusion |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Dec 2025 |
| Give unverified estimate, say, sketchy initially |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Dec 2025 |
| Estimate without measurement or detailed calculation (5) |
Puzzler |
18 Nov 2025 |
| See 1-Across |
The Washington Post Mini |
31 Oct 2025 |
| Have a stab at a quiz answer (5) |
Puzzler |
02 Oct 2025 |
| Try to predict (5) |
The Sun Mini |
28 Sep 2025 |
| Word that means "estimate" and ends with "ss" |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
Newsday |
10 Aug 2025 |
| Have a stab at |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Jul 2025 |
| Take a shot |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jul 2025 |
| Not sure about this one but I'll have a wild stab at it being by Charli XCX (5) |
|
|
| Make a prediction |
|
|
| What gutter press do on the outside - speculate (5) |
|
|
| Think of Americans (5) |
|
|
| Visitors not having time to think (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
31 May 2025 |
| Estimate |
Universal |
27 May 2025 |
| Predict visitor does not finish second (5) |
|
|
| What word meaning "supposition" is a prefix to "work"? (5) |
|
|
| Jeans brand with a question mark in its logo |
|
|
| Mathematician rejects answer but accepts 2.718 as estimate |
|
|
| Work out this answer! |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Conjecture |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Estimate |
|
|
| "Have a stab!" |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Estimate for odd parts of gauge on old ship |
|
|
| What you might do if you don't know an answer |
New York Times |
01 Apr 2025 |
| Play Twenty Questions, say |
|
|
| Reckon pub out of Irish beer? |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Mar 2025 |
| Conjecture |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Mar 2025 |
| Estimate (5) |
Puzzler |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Conjecture |
Newsday |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Estimate; prediction (5) |
|
|
| German sues about estimate (5) |
|
|
| Answer without definite knowledge |
|
|
| Visitors not having time to think (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Jan 2025 |
| Make a stab at |
The Times Concise |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Fancy gateau's topping uses nuts (5) |
|
|
| Rogues serious about theory |
Mirror Cryptic |
20 Dec 2024 |
| Estimate |
Mirror Quick |
20 Dec 2024 |
| Make a rough estimate: - the amount |
|
|
| Visitors missing trainee's first estimate (5) |
|
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| Estimate |
|
|
| No one knows if it's anyone's (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Dec 2024 |
| Speculation, conjecture (5) |
|
|
| Estimate: - the distance |
|
|
| 45 Across-____, anticipate |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
26 Nov 2024 |
| Wild thing? |
LA Times Daily |
16 Nov 2024 |
| Suppose |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Something ventured during charades, say |
|
|
| What students might do on a multiple-choice test (5) |
|
|
| What 20 ACROSS might do on a multiple-choice test (5) |
|
|
| Such work is speculative |
|
|
| "Take a stab at it" |
Universal |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Attempt in Wordle, e.g. |
|
|
| What has the colleague's statement got to do with an estimate (5) |
|
|
| Divine Conjecture (5) |
|
|
| "You wanna ___ the color of my underwear" (Charli XCX lyric) |
|
|
| Random surmise head groundsman uses anyhow (5) |
|
|
| Conjecture |
USA Today |
27 Sep 2024 |
| Reckon inn's patrons must have time out |
|
|
| Visitors not having time to think (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Sep 2024 |
| 1968 Sidney Poitier film, _ Who's Coming To Dinner (5) |
|
|
| Charli XCX hit remixed with Billie Eilish that shot to No.1 (5) |
|
|
| Assume pub out of Irish beer? |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Conjecture |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Fancy catalogues seen partially |
|
|
| Possible response to "Don't know" |
Newsday |
31 Aug 2024 |
| Suppose to be in rogue's swag (5) |
|
|
| Conjecture |
Newsday |
11 Aug 2024 |
| Word that means "estimate" and ends with "ss" |
|
|
| ___ Who? (classic elimination game) |
USA Today |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Give a rough estimate (5) |
|
|
| Speculate |
Newsday |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Stab some colleagues spitefully? |
|
|
| Suppose (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Jun 2024 |
| Movie: - Who's Coming to Dinner? |
|
|
| Estimate |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Jun 2024 |
| Estimate Greek initially uses incorrectly |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jun 2024 |
| Conjecture |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jun 2024 |
| "___ Who's Coming to Dinner"; Sidney Poitier movie |
|
|
| Estimate |
Commuter |
20 Jun 2024 |
| Make a rough estimate |
|
|
| Stab |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Jun 2024 |
| A random surmise (5) |
|
|
| Suppose visitors to be short of time |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Estimate use for improvisation in Gilbert and Sullivan (5) |
|
|
| "Scooby-doo and ___ Who?" |
|
|
| Estimate that might be "wild" |
Newsday |
28 May 2024 |
| Estimate |
USA Today |
01 May 2024 |
| Yours is as good as mine? |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Apr 2024 |
| Think they might call round? Time to go (5) |
|
|
| Estimate |
|
|
| Imagine Gus in the south-east! (5) |
|
|
| Educated ___ (brain-y shot?) |
|
|
| Speculate |
Newsday |
04 Apr 2024 |
| Take an educated ___ |
|
|
| Estimate party attendees with little time gone (5) |
|
|
| Conjecture |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Mar 2024 |
| "I never _. It is a shocking habit, destructive to the logical faculty": Arthur Conan Doyle (5) |
|
|
| Head of government uses reformed judge (5) |
|
|
| An American may suppose it to be conjecture (5) |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
The Times Concise |
05 Feb 2024 |
| Clothing brand with a "?" in its logo |
Universal |
02 Feb 2024 |
| Reckon attendees will waste time |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Jan 2024 |
| Divine having grown up eating smoked salmon starters |
|
|
| Visitor doesn't finish second estimate |
|
|
| Suppose use intuition |
|
|
| Take a shot in the dark |
|
|
| "You'll never ___ what just happened!" |
|
|
| Imagine French are enthralled by Augustus |
|
|
| Take a wild shot, say |
|
|
| Word with "wild" or "educated" |
USA Today |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Stab |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Sep 2023 |
| Estimate |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Sep 2023 |
| Suppose |
The Guardian Quick |
11 Sep 2023 |
| Speculate |
LA Times Daily |
04 Sep 2023 |
| Take a wild shot, say |
|
|
| Fancy hotel's residents taking time out |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Jul 2023 |
| Shot in the dark |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jun 2023 |
| '___ who?' |
New York Times |
28 May 2023 |
| "Take a stab at it" |
Universal |
27 May 2023 |
| Estimate |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 May 2023 |
| Prediction |
USA Today |
05 Apr 2023 |
| Estimate |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Feb 2023 |
| Reckoning |
New York Times |
04 Feb 2023 |
| Say '?, say,' say |
New York Times |
01 Jan 2023 |
| Say '..., say,' say |
New York Times |
01 Jan 2023 |
| Brand with a question mark in its logo |
LA Times Daily |
09 Dec 2022 |
| Stab |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Nov 2022 |
| Take a shot at |
Premier Sunday |
06 Nov 2022 |
| Ballpark figure |
LA Times Daily |
21 Sep 2022 |
| Speculate |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2022 |
| Answer you're unsure of |
Universal |
29 Jul 2022 |
| Suspect clientele in Ritz, say, wanting tango |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Jun 2022 |
| Take an educated ___ |
|
|
| 'You'll never ___!' |
USA Today |
20 Feb 2022 |
| Imagine visitors wasting time |
|
|
| Estimate or conjecture |
|
|
| Conjecture |
The Times Concise |
03 Jan 2022 |
| Think one receiving hospitality has succeeded for time |
|
|
| One might be educated |
New York Times |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Conjecture |
The Guardian Quick |
09 Dec 2021 |
| Have a go at identifying ballpark figure |
|
|
| Believe visitors will be short of time |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Oct 2021 |
| Shot in the dark |
USA Today |
22 Aug 2021 |
| Unconfident answer |
USA Today |
08 Aug 2021 |
| Hangman turn |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Aug 2021 |
| Divine man cut curvy shape |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Jul 2021 |
| Gun used excessively, several soldiers initially shot |
|
|
| Speculate |
The Times Concise |
30 May 2021 |
| Jeans brand with a question mark in its logo |
LA Times Daily |
27 May 2021 |
| Jeans brand with a question mark in its logo |
|
|
| What you can do when you don't know |
Universal |
20 May 2021 |
| Gunman originally uses rocks for shot |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 May 2021 |
| Visitors ignoring temperature estimate |
|
|
| Work out this answer? |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Conjecture |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Conjecture |
The Times Concise |
25 Mar 2021 |
| Be a speculator |
Newsday |
21 Mar 2021 |
| Speculate |
|
|
| Speculate |
LA Times Daily |
03 Mar 2021 |
| Estimate |
Universal |
27 Feb 2021 |
| ''Wild'' estimate |
Newsday |
15 Feb 2021 |
| Stab |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Feb 2021 |
| "___ what?" |
|
|
| '___ Who's Coming to Dinner' |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2021 |
| Word after "wild" or "educated" |
Universal |
08 Jan 2021 |
| Assume visitors are short of time |
|
|
| 'What's your best estimate?' |
USA Today |
25 Dec 2020 |
| It may be educated |
|
|
| Uncertain answer |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Nov 2020 |
| Take an educated ___ |
|
|
| Estimate |
|
|
| Conjecture |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Step in a game of hangman |
|
|
| Fancy patrons wasting time! |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Groundsman initially uses wrong estimate |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Mar 2020 |
| Good: Sue's revised estimate |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Feb 2020 |
| Imagine pub's out of stout |
|
|
| Estimate of plague's spread |
|
|
| Company hasn't time to make suppositions |
|
|
| 'Educated' answer |
USA Today |
22 Nov 2019 |
| ___ the Gibberish, Instagram game filter that can be uploaded as a story |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Sep 2019 |
| Estimate |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Aug 2019 |
| '20 Questions' attempt |
USA Today |
19 Aug 2019 |
| Hotel residents having no time for estimate |
|
|
| Estimate gardener initially uses wrongly |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Mar 2019 |
| Estimate |
|
|
| "20 Questions" attempt |
|
|
| Stab |
LA Times Daily |
16 Dec 2018 |
| Stab |
|
|
| 'C'mon, take a __' |
|
|
| "C'mon, take a __" |
LA Times Daily |
28 Oct 2018 |
| Visitors taking time to speculate |
|
|
| It may be educated |
Newsday |
21 Jun 2018 |
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
New York Times |
13 Jun 2018 |
| Educated ___ (say something based on experience) |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
LA Times Daily |
13 May 2018 |
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| Estimate Greek initially uses incorrectly |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Apr 2018 |
| Jeans brand |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Apr 2018 |
| Take a wild shot |
|
|
| Reckon |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Mar 2018 |
| Reckon visitors spilt tea |
|
|
| Jeans brand |
|
|
| "C'mon, take a __" |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| Stab |
|
|
| One may be educated |
|
|
| One may be educated |
LA Times Daily |
16 Dec 2017 |
| Suppose visitors must be short of time |
|
|
| Suppose great Utopian era seemed stable at first |
|
|
| Estimation |
Universal |
24 Jul 2017 |
| Something hazarded |
Newsday |
07 Jul 2017 |
| Ballpark figure |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jun 2017 |
| Ballpark figure |
|
|
| Many a multiple-choice test answer |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jun 2017 |
| Many a multiple-choice test answer |
|
|
| 20 Questions turn |
USA Today |
18 Feb 2017 |
| Party-goer's setting aside time to have a shot |
|
|
| Suppose |
Newsday |
20 Jan 2017 |
| It may be wild or educated |
USA Today |
05 Jan 2017 |
| Many a multiple-choice test answer |
|
|
| It may be wild or educated |
|
|
| One may be educated |
|
|
| 20 Questions turn |
|
|
| Estimation |
|
|
| Ballpark figure |
|
|
| Conjecture; estimate |
The Times Concise |
31 Oct 2016 |
| Surmise |
The Guardian Speedy |
29 Oct 2016 |
| Take a wild stab |
Universal |
26 Oct 2016 |
| Have a go at judge? |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
Newsday |
30 Aug 2016 |
| Divine visitor almost succeeded |
|
|
| Baffled person's attempt, sometimes |
Universal |
18 Jul 2016 |
| It may be wild or educated |
|
|
| Baffled person's attempt, sometimes |
|
|
| Suppose |
New York Times |
06 Dec 2015 |
| Conjecture |
Newsday |
29 Nov 2015 |
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Speculate |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Nov 2015 |
| Argues strenuously, displaying poor judgment |
|
|
| Surmise |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Sep 2015 |
| Estimate, conjecture |
The Times Concise |
09 Sep 2015 |
| "___ who?" |
USA Today |
25 Aug 2015 |
| Take a stab at |
Universal |
17 Aug 2015 |
| Surmise |
Universal |
12 May 2015 |
| Visitors deprived of tea, you say? Imagine! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 May 2015 |
| Form an estimate |
|
|
| Suppose |
|
|
| "___ who?" |
|
|
| Take a stab at |
|
|
| Surmise |
|
|
| Blink-182 "I ___ this is growing up" |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Brand of jeans with a question mark in its logo |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| Surmise |
|
|
| Something ventured |
|
|
| One might be educated or wild |
|
|
| Quiz show attempt |
|
|
| Finally witnessing US vice leads to Edward Snowden making judgement |
|
|
| Hangman turn |
|
|
| Theory |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| Take a shot |
|
|
| Jeans brand with a question mark in its logo |
|
|
| Estimate |
|
|
| Take a stab |
|
|
| Take a stab |
|
|
| Calvin Klein competitor |
|
|
| Alternative to leaving a test question blank |
|
|
| Twenty questions attempt |
|
|
| Hangman turn |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| Speculate |
|
|
| Alternative to leaving a test question blank |
|
|
| Uncertain estimate |
|
|
| "___ again!" |
|
|
| "___ who?!" |
|
|
| Speculate |
|
|
| It may be wild |
|
|
| Estimate |
|
|
| Test response, maybe |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Shot |
|
|
| Test response, maybe |
|
|
| What a well-written sudoku puzzle never requires you to do |
|
|
| 20 Questions turn |
|
|
| Take a stab |
|
|
| What to hazard |
|
|
| Marcianos' label |
|
|
| Jeans brand |
|
|
| One can be educated |
|
|
| Take a stab |
|
|
| Hangman turn |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Surmise |
|
|
| Something ventured |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Quiz show response, sometimes |
|
|
| Gather |
|
|
| It might be wild |
|
|
| Quiz show response, sometimes |
|
|
| Shot in the dark |
|
|
| "Wild" estimate |
|
|
| Stab |
|
|
| "__ what?" |
|
|
| It may be wild |
|
|
| "__ what?" |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Estimate |
|
|
| Speculate |
|
|
| Bit of dead reckoning |
|
|
| Make an estimate |
|
|
| "__ Who's Coming to Dinner" |
|
|
| It may be wild |
|
|
| Reckon |
|
|
| Take a shot |
|
|
| Stab |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Quiz show attempt |
|
|
| Take a shot |
|
|
| Speculate |
|
|
| Take a stab |
|
|
| Take a shot at |
|
|
| "You'll never ___!" |
|
|
| What to hazard |
|
|
| Hunch |
|
|
| Hunch |
|
|
| Risk an opinion |
|
|
| It may be educated or wild |
|
|
| Believe uncertainly |
|
|
| Take a stab |
|
|
| Wild thing? |
|
|
| Shot |
|
|
| Surmise |
|
|
| True-false test taker's option |
|
|
| Uninformed response |
|
|
| Lee rival |
|
|
| Popular clothing brand |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Test-taker's try |
|
|
| Conjecture |
|
|
| Ballpark figure |
|
|
| Riddler's challenge |
|
|
| Suppose |
|
|
| Go out on a limb |
|
|
| Twenty Questions turn |
|
|
| Baffled person's response, perhaps |
|
|
| Speculation |
|
|
| It can be wild |
|
|
| Calvin Klein competitor |
|
|
| Infer |
|
|
| Take a stab at |
|
|
| Stab |
|
|
| Speculate |
|
|
| Estimate |
|
|
| Join in a parlor game |
|
|
| Educated ___ |
|
|
| Hazard |
|
|
| It might be wild |
|
|
| Conjecture. |
|
|
| Estimate. |
|
|
| Think. |
|
|
| Random shot |
|
|
| Word with wild or educated |
|
|
| ___ who? |
|
|
| Contestant's last resort. |
|
|
| Surmise. |
|
|
| Inventor of Cherokee alphabet. |
|
|
| Suppose. |
|
|