| Make less heavy or burdensome (7) |
Mirror Classic |
29 Jun 2025 |
| Relieve the load and get brighter (7) |
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| Reduce the weight of (7) |
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| Relieve thin leg when fractured (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 May 2025 |
| Make less heavy and not as dark (7) |
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| Illuminate to take the weight off? (7) |
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| Reduce the weight of lamp, with directions (7) |
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| Being a match for some men will ease things (7) |
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| Make it more bearable and fairer (7) |
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| Lesson or reduce in weight (7) |
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| Make or become more cheerful (7) |
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| Make less heavy |
The Times Concise |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Ease |
Newsday |
27 Oct 2024 |
| Lie ten to lessen the load (7) |
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| Get rid of some of the load - in a flashy way? (7) |
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| Do something illuminating to make things less burdensome (7) |
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| Make up for having overcharged? (7) |
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| Relieve pale chaps lacking in money (7) |
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| Cheer up to bleach (7) |
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| Relieve admiral William after dismissing British figure (7) |
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| Remove some of the charge to produce a flashy effect (7) |
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| After fifty, the gin might serve to relieve the pressure (7) |
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| Lessen load |
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| Lift a burden (7) |
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| Make blonder (7) |
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| Add humour to difficult situation, heading off doom almost entirely |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Go pale: hint leg is broken |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
26 Jan 2024 |
| Reduce the weight of bleach (7) |
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| Unhealthy earthling forgoes tart filling to lose weight (7) |
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| Disencumber |
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| Grow brighter |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Oct 2023 |
| ___ the load (make things easier) |
USA Today |
29 Oct 2023 |
| Remove load from boat docked at noon |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Aug 2023 |
| If missing nightlife, lost temper |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Dec 2022 |
| Relieve |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Sep 2022 |
| Lift, as a mood |
Wall Street Journal |
10 May 2022 |
| Make less heavy |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Mar 2022 |
| Take a load off |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Feb 2021 |
| Ease |
The Times Concise |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Make less heavy |
The Times Concise |
08 Oct 2019 |
| Alleviate |
The Guardian Speedy |
26 May 2018 |
| Reduce awkward length, squeezing one in |
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| Reduce bleach |
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| Reduce bleach |
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| Fix thin leg in Blanch |
Irish Times Crosaire |
31 Oct 2015 |
| Reduce one in length, possibly |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Mar 2015 |
| Ease |
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| Ease |
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| Decrease, as a load |
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| Frost, at the salon |
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| Ease, as a load |
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| Bleach, perhaps |
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| Uplift |
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| Take a load off |
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| Mitigate |
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| Alleviate. |
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| Ease the burden. |
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