| Kind of bar that's hard to pass |
New York Times |
24 Oct 2025 |
| PlusWord No 1238 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
11 Oct 2025 |
| Uncertain state |
The Telegraph Mini |
27 Sep 2025 |
| State of uncertainty |
Universal |
20 Sep 2025 |
| Party game that tests how low you can go |
New York Times Mini |
19 Sep 2025 |
| Pole dance? |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Aug 2025 |
| Caribbean dance |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Intermediate place or state |
Puzzler Backwords |
30 Jul 2025 |
| Leg over? Everything under, doing this |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Put ring on arm or leg to show condition of neglect (5) |
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| Dance where people avoid the bar |
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| Borderland of Hell (5) |
Puzzler |
21 Jun 2025 |
| Style of dancing which involves a low bar (5) |
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| Dance done by people heading down under? (5) |
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| Dance with ring on arm (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 May 2025 |
| Low-profile dance? |
The Telegraph Plusword |
26 May 2025 |
| Where lost souls appear in Hell, I'm bothered by it (5) |
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| Activity testing how low you can go |
The Telegraph Plusword |
15 May 2025 |
| Bishop going in car to dance |
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| Caribbean dance in which participants pass under a bar while leaning backwards |
Mirror Quiz |
03 May 2025 |
| Low bar dance |
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| Could be almost mobile in the borderland of Hell (5) |
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| Once the supposed abode of the souls of unbaptised infants |
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| Style of dancing that involves a low bar (5) |
Puzzler |
14 Apr 2025 |
| Branch office opening in state of uncertainty (5) |
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| Dance involving a low bar |
Mirror Tea Time |
25 Mar 2025 |
| Dance involving a pole (5) |
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| Short-lived dance craze |
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| The dance a member has love for? (5) |
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| Caribbean dance in which participants pass under a bar while leaning backwards |
Mirror Quiz |
05 Mar 2025 |
| Intermediate place or state |
Puzzler Backwords |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Dance where you really get down? |
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| Caribbean dance |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
24 Feb 2025 |
| Border area between heaven and hell (5) |
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| A low dance at the bar (5) |
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| Dance round on single leg? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
19 Feb 2025 |
| Obscureness |
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| Dance with ring on arm (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
13 Feb 2025 |
| Luxury car carrying bishop in uncertain state (5) |
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| Dance involving a low bar |
Mirror Tea Time |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Back-bending West Indian dance (5) |
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| Dance barred in the region of the lost (5) |
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| Left husband, leaving the dull hunk in uncertain state |
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| Dance with arm on love (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Uncertain state |
LA Times Mini |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Where unwanted things go, like ring on arm or leg? (5) |
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| Hanging in there and try to go under Rod (5) |
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| Forgotten state for member? That's nothing! (5) |
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| Member with ring that one bends over backwards for? |
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| Bring leg round during dance requiring flexibility |
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| Game that might be played with a stick |
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| Member gets nothing for dance (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
08 Dec 2024 |
| Dante's First Circle of Hell (5) |
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| Between Heaven and Hell (5) |
Puzzler |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Uncertain state of bar under which this dancer goes (5) |
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| Region of lost souls (5) |
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| Bachelor parking large car outside dance |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Nov 2024 |
| Caribbean dance (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Nov 2024 |
| Limo carries Bea to West Indies dance (5) |
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| In this hanging around, climb on somewhat (5) |
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| "__ Rock" (Chubby Checker hit) |
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| State of suspension when ducking under bar (5) |
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| Low dance form in which one is consigned to oblivion (5) |
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| Gymnastic dance; uncertainty |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Oct 2024 |
| Dancers bend over backward to do it |
LA Times Mini |
08 Oct 2024 |
| The borderland of Hell (5) |
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| Member gets nothing for dance (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
05 Oct 2024 |
| This dance is barred |
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| Dance under pole |
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| PlusWord No 855 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
23 Sep 2024 |
| Uncertain state |
The Times Sunday Concise |
22 Sep 2024 |
| Word which originally meant a place in the afterlife between heaven and hell. (5) |
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| Uncertain period awaiting resolution |
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| The member gets nothing when consigned to oblivion (5) |
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| The state of being disregarded or forgotten. (5) |
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| West Indian dance in which dancers pass under a bar while leaning backwards (5) |
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| Leg over in waiting mode (5) |
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| "How low can you go?" contest |
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| Neglected state of bachelor in big car |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Aug 2024 |
| Dance to a high level? Quite the opposite! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Jul 2024 |
| In Catholic theology, the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin (5) |
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| In Roman Catholic theology, the abode after death of unbaptised but innocent souls (5) |
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| Region of oblivion (5) |
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| Border of sun, nothing more, to be consigned to in oblivion (5) |
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| Caribbean dance in which dancers pass under a bar while leaning backwards (5) |
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| Intermediate place or state |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Jun 2024 |
| An F1 Petunia grandiflora series - uncertain state (5) |
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| Dance of an uncertain period (5) |
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| Edge of hell (5) |
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| Activity where the bar is lowered |
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| A place of rest from the dancing? |
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| Back-arching dance (5) |
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| Purgatory (5) |
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| Dance under the bar - a member needs nothing more! (5) |
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| Dance involving a low bar |
Mirror Tea Time |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Branch with a love of athletic dance (5) |
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| Dance associated with a low bar (5) |
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| Party game with a stick |
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| Lego, for example, is a dance (5) |
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| "How low can you go?" competition |
|
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| Region of the Afterlife Between HeAven And Hell (5) |
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| Dance under a low bar (5) |
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| Dance member joining the circle (5) |
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| Intermediate region of the afterlife (5) |
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| Such dancers bend over backwards to succeed (5) |
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| Sort of dancing associated with a low bar |
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| Oil up Mr Barnes initially to dance the almost-impossible (5) |
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| Such dancers lower themselves to the region of the lost (5) |
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| Caribbean dance in which participants pass under a bar while leaning backwards |
Mirror Quiz |
10 Mar 2024 |
| Get leg over love in indeterminate state (5) |
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| Cornus kousa cultivar 'Peve - - - - -' - a place for deceased souls dying in original sin (5) |
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| Uncertain state found among slim boys (5) |
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| A place where waiters are forgotten? |
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| Member with a love of exotic dance (5) |
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| West Indian dance in which dancer bends backwards (5) |
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| Dancing with many a wild mob (5) |
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| West Indian dance |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Jan 2024 |
| Halfway between hell and heaven was noman's-land, God's truth! (5) |
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| Dance with a horizontal pole (5) |
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| In-between state |
New York Times Mini |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Period of uncertainty |
The Times Concise |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Horizontal bar dance |
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| Period of uncertainty |
USA Today |
05 Dec 2023 |
| Dance that originated in Trinidad |
USA Today |
03 Dec 2023 |
| Caribbean dance in intermediate state |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
24 Nov 2023 |
| Dance with ring on arm (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Nov 2023 |
| "Neither here nor there" state |
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| Unsettled state |
Newsday |
09 Jul 2023 |
| People bend over backward for it |
Family Time |
05 Mar 2023 |
| Unsettled state |
Universal |
20 Dec 2022 |
| Dance with arm round? |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Sep 2022 |
| Dance round under branch |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Sep 2022 |
| Pole dancing doctor lubed after rotation? |
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| Pole dancing doctor lubed after rotation? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Mobile, mostly busy, creates state of uncertainity |
|
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| Dance where a bar is lowered |
USA Today |
12 Nov 2021 |
| Dance member from Ring |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Oct 2021 |
| Jamaican dance |
Canadiana |
04 Oct 2021 |
| "How low can you go?" game |
|
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| Ball's on the end of leg, perhaps in suspension |
|
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| "How low can you go" contest |
Family Time |
01 Aug 2021 |
| Period of waiting in car without book |
|
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| Dance to get leg under or leg over? |
|
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| A “dance” which is effectively a sporting contest |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
18 Apr 2021 |
| Intermediate state |
The Times Concise |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Member with love for dance |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Mar 2021 |
| Attempt to pass the bar? |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Feb 2021 |
| Uncertain state |
The Times Concise |
15 Jan 2021 |
| Bishop in posh car West Indian moves? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Dec 2020 |
| Bishop in car somewhere en route to heavenly destination? |
|
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| Caribbean dance |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Dec 2020 |
| Bishop in car West Indian moves? |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Dec 2020 |
| Contest described by 19-, 30-/41- and 51-Across |
New York Times |
09 Dec 2020 |
| Caribbean dance |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Nov 2020 |
| Neglected state |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Oct 2020 |
| Unknown state car carrying bishop |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Oct 2020 |
| Uncertain state |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Oct 2020 |
| . Bend over backwards dancing for boy in luxurious car |
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| Member gets over state of uncertainty |
The Telegraph Toughie |
02 Sep 2020 |
| Reason to lower the bar |
New York Times |
13 Aug 2020 |
| Dance in a state of oblivion |
|
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| Theological waiting point |
The Washington Post Sunday |
09 Aug 2020 |
| State of oblivion |
|
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| Unknown state car tours Belgium |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Jul 2020 |
| State of oblivion of bishop in posh car |
|
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| Dance under a bar |
LA Times Daily |
25 May 2020 |
| Dance under a bar |
The Washington Post |
25 May 2020 |
| Unknown state car carrying bishop |
|
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| Bishop in fancy car, finding borderland of Hell |
|
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| Dance member from Ring |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Mar 2020 |
| 'How low can you go?' dance |
USA Today |
06 Mar 2020 |
| Pending state |
The Washington Post |
24 Feb 2020 |
| Pending state |
LA Times Daily |
24 Feb 2020 |
| Bishop in fancy car, finding borderland of Hell |
|
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| Neither here nor there state |
|
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| Bar contest? |
Universal |
25 Dec 2019 |
| Knee-bending dance |
USA Today |
06 Nov 2019 |
| Unknown state car bishop enters |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2019 |
| State of uncertainty with member gaining nothing |
|
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| Something to bend over backward for |
New York Times |
04 Jun 2019 |
| State of uncertainty |
USA Today |
29 May 2019 |
| Once supposed abode of the souls of unbaptized infants |
Irish Times Simplex |
18 May 2019 |
| Transitional state |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2019 |
| Perhaps arm Oman's leader in uncertain situation |
|
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| Neither-here-nor-there state mentioned in "Inception" |
|
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| Waiting period as posh car collects bachelor |
|
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| Oblivion |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Jan 2019 |
| State of uncertainty |
|
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| Something to bend over backward for |
|
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| Under-a-bar dance |
Newsday |
04 Dec 2018 |
| Vehicle broken by butcher's van in badly neglected state |
|
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| State of uncertainty |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Oct 2018 |
| West Indian dance |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Sep 2018 |
| Shimmy under pole, climb over netting |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Sep 2018 |
| Endless waiting to get 4? |
|
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| The (non-biblical) supposed abode of the souls of unbaptised infants |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
05 Aug 2018 |
| Where waiters are passing under bar? |
|
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| Dance up in the air |
|
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| Output from auto industry keeps Britain in uncertain state |
|
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| Supposed repository of lost car, with black interior |
|
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| Get-low dance |
Universal |
17 May 2018 |
| Get low dance |
Universal |
05 Feb 2018 |
| Branch wants Corbyn's number two's oblivion |
|
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| State of uncertainty |
|
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| Get low dance |
|
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| Get-low dance |
|
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| Dance under a bar |
|
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| Neither-here-nor-there state |
|
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| Branch office's first dance |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Dec 2017 |
| Middle state |
New York Times |
06 Dec 2017 |
| Prison wing exposed in the centre |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Nov 2017 |
| Intermediate state |
The Guardian Speedy |
12 Nov 2017 |
| Bad state to be in |
New York Times |
04 Nov 2017 |
| Low dance |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Sep 2017 |
| Transitional state |
LA Times Daily |
14 Aug 2017 |
| Transitional state |
The Washington Post |
14 Aug 2017 |
| Uncertain waiting period |
The Times Concise |
21 Jul 2017 |
| Unsettled state |
Newsday |
14 Jun 2017 |
| Member beginning to overcome period of uncertainty |
|
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| Bar game |
LA Times Daily |
19 Mar 2017 |
| Bar game |
The Washington Post |
19 Mar 2017 |
| Gray area |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2017 |
| Uncertain state |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Jan 2017 |
| Dance round on one leg, say |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Jan 2017 |
| Middle state |
|
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| Gray area |
|
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| Bad state to be in |
|
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| Transitional state |
|
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| People bend over backward to do it |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Dec 2016 |
| Indeterminate state |
The Guardian Speedy |
27 Nov 2016 |
| In ___ (unresolved) |
USA Today |
31 Oct 2016 |
| Characters with slim bodies in a Caribbean dance |
|
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| State of unceratinty |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Oct 2016 |
| Pole dance? |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Oct 2016 |
| West Indian dance in which dancers bend backward passing under a bar |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
11 Sep 2016 |
| You'll bend over backward to do it |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Uncertain state |
Newsday |
18 May 2016 |
| In ___ (unresolved) |
|
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| Pole dance? |
USA Today |
09 Dec 2015 |
| Dance in a state of oblivion |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Dec 2015 |
| First circle of nine in Dante |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
06 Nov 2015 |
| Bar entertainment? |
New York Times |
05 Nov 2015 |
| Uncertain state |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Oct 2015 |
| People will bend over backward to do it |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Oct 2015 |
| Dance in uncertain state |
|
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| On hold, with "in" |
LA Times Daily |
03 Sep 2015 |
| Uncertain state |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Aug 2015 |
| Beach dance |
USA Today |
24 Aug 2015 |
| Waiting room upstairs in The Half Way House |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Jun 2015 |
| Arm taken with old dance |
|
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| See about the writer's initially being in oblivion |
The Times Cryptic |
25 May 2015 |
| West Indian dance in place for the un-baptized |
|
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| Ostentatious vehicle carrying bachelor to dance |
The Telegraph Toughie |
30 Apr 2015 |
| Dance round on leg perhaps |
|
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| Going somewhere soon? It's hellish being left on the edge! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Apr 2015 |
| Where Dante encounters Homer and Ovid |
Newsday |
28 Mar 2015 |
| Hellish work for pole dancer? |
|
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| One's unsure in this dance |
|
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| Caribbean dance |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Jan 2015 |
| Beach dance |
|
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| On hold, with "in" |
|
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| Bar entertainment? |
|
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| First circle of nine in Dante |
|
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| State of uncertainty |
|
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| Pole dance? |
|
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| Where Dante encounters Homer and Ovid |
|
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| Member's love is void |
|
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| A follower gets into car in an uncertain state |
|
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| Dance with a deep bend |
|
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| State of uncertainty |
|
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| Dance requiring a pole |
|
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| Dance where the bar is lowered |
|
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| Neither-here-nor-there state |
|
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| "How low can you go?" dance |
|
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| Uncomfortable place to be in |
|
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| Attempt to pass the bar? |
|
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| Dance under a stick |
|
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| Pole dance? |
|
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| Pole dance? |
|
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| "How low can you go?" competition |
|
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| Unsettled state |
|
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| "How low can you go?" competition |
|
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| Unsettled state |
|
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| Unsettled state |
|
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| Attempt to pass the bar? |
|
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| State of uncertainty |
|
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| State of oblivion |
|
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| First circle of hell in Dante's "Inferno" |
|
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| Place that's neither here nor there |
|
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| Dance with a bar |
|
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| Backbreaking pole dance? |
|
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| State of oblivion |
|
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| Dance in which one succeeds by lowering the bar |
|
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| Transitional state |
|
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| People bend over backwards for it |
|
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| Dance that makes you bend over backwards |
|
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| People bend over backwards for it |
|
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| Dance that requires a bar |
|
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| Neither Heaven nor Hell |
|
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| People bend over backwards for it |
|
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| People bend over backward for it |
|
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| Dance with the bar set low |
|
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| Pole dance? |
|
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| Word from the Jamaican for "bend" |
|
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| Dance at a bar |
|
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| State of transition |
|
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| Low dance |
|
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| Dance that makes you bend backwards |
|
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| Transitional state |
|
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| West Indies dance |
|
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| Bureaucratic no man's land |
|
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| Bar challenge? |
|
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| "How low can you go?" game |
|
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| Dance with the bar set low |
|
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| Place that's neither here nor there |
|
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| Dance that requires a bar |
|
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| Neither-here-nor-there state |
|
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| Dance with a bar |
|
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| It's neither here nor there |
|
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| Dance under a bar |
|
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| Neither-here-nor-there state |
|
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| It's neither here nor there |
|
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| Back-bending dance |
|
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| Contest at the bar? |
|
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| Dance with a lowered pole |
|
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| Transition |
|
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| Pole dance? |
|
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| Perform a barred dance? |
|
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| Region between heaven and hell |
|
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| Bend over backward under a bar |
|
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| Bar dance |
|
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| Under-the-bar dance |
|
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| Dance under a pole |
|
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| Imaginary place for lost items |
|
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| Dance with a stick |
|
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| Dance at a bar |
|
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| Dance at a bar? |
|
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| Dance in a state of oblivion? |
|
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| "How low can you go?" competition |
|
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| How low can you go game |
|
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| West Indies dance |
|
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| Bend over backwards? |
|
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| Bar hop? |
|
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| Bar dance? |
|
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| Transitional state |
|
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| Try to pass the bar? |
|
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| Dance under a pole |
|
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| Try to pass the bar? |
|
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| Dance under the bar |
|
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| Lithe one's dance |
|
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| Transitional state |
|
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| 1960s dance craze |
|
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| It's neither here nor there |
|
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| Backbreaking dance |
|
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| Neither-here-nor-there state |
|
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| Bar dance |
|
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| Backbreaking dance |
|
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| It's neither here nor there |
|
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| Chubby Checker's "____ Rock" |
|
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| West Indian dance |
|
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| Bar dance? |
|
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| The lowdown on dancing? |
|
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| Nowheresville |
|
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| W. Indian dance |
|
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| West Indies dance |
|
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| Bar dance |
|
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| Dance under a bar |
|
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| Oblivion |
|
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| Place of oblivion |
|
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| Knee-bending dance |
|
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| Hell's neighbor |
|
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| State of oblivion |
|
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| Place for discarded things |
|
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| West Indian dance |
|
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| Place of restraint. |
|
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| Suburb of hell. |
|
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| Place of oblivion. |
|
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| It has a bar association |
|
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| Place for worthless things. |
|
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| Place of confinement. |
|
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| Land of forgotten things. |
|
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| Obscurity. |
|
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| The border of hell. |
|
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| Land of oblivion. |
|
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| Oblivion. |
|
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| Place to which unwanted things are relegated. |
|
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| Land of forgotten men. |
|
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