| Grin male contrived getting to fake illness (8) |
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| With "Am up", use delaying tactics. Say "Don't feel well" (8) |
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| Swing the lead (8) |
Mirror Classic |
20 Jun 2025 |
| Pretend to be ill to get out of working (8) |
Puzzler |
18 Jun 2025 |
| Heather following mother with hesitation could pretend to be unwell (8) |
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| Mum to loiter and swing the lead |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 May 2025 |
| Skive |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 May 2025 |
| Feign illness to get mother to hang on (8) |
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| Country ending in recession, many leaving country avoid work (8) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Pretend illness |
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| Mother will hang about and waste a doctor's time (8) |
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| Note fish in French sea seem diseased (8) |
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| Pretend to be ill to make mother stay (8) |
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| Parent to hang about for loaf |
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| A gremlin wobbled to feign illness (8) |
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| Seem sick enough to make mum hang around (8) |
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| To skive use, for example, marlin somehow (8) |
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| Shirk duties with fifty-one in wooden bed! (8) |
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| Exaggerate illness |
Mirror Classic |
24 Oct 2024 |
| Suspect German about fifty-one gets to pretend to be ill (8) |
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| Feign sickness |
The Guardian Quick |
21 Oct 2024 |
| Pretend to be ill |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Mother to tarry with sham illness (8) |
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| Second one leaving African countries to avoid duty (8) |
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| Feign illness to avoid duty |
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| At 50, I meet a German who can do this to get out of work (8) |
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| Swing the lead |
Mirror Classic |
22 Jun 2024 |
| To evade work, male nearly sliced top off finger (8) |
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| Shirk, making mother hang about (8) |
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| Feign illness to make mother hesitate (8) |
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| Truant, male American writer's no saint! (8) |
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| Stay well away from work (8) |
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| Merlin goes to Georgia in order to feign sickness |
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| German of about fifty one might thus shirk duty (8) |
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| Swing the lead |
Mirror Classic |
24 Mar 2024 |
| One with Heather during second half of summer to swing the lead (8) |
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| Pretend to be ill but just remain alive after Mother (8) |
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| Feign sickness (8) |
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| Second one exits African countries to avoid duty |
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| Stay mum initially and avoid working |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Oct 2023 |
| Feign illness |
The Times Concise |
02 Oct 2023 |
| Shirk work |
Newsday |
10 Sep 2023 |
| Put it on and stay to support mother |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Oct 2022 |
| Pretend to be ill |
The Guardian Quick |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Skip work after nail's infected with germ |
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| Last one leaving one African country after another to avoid duty |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 Jul 2021 |
| Start to accept fish in sea abroad seem diseased? |
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| Opt to skip work to translate Germinal |
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| Dodge exceptionally mean girl |
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| Pretend to be ill |
The Times Concise |
06 Jan 2021 |
| Mum to loiter and swing the lead |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2020 |
| Skive |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2020 |
| One exits West African countries to avoid duty |
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| Graduate to loiter and swing the lead |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Mar 2020 |
| . . . . put it on to stay with mother |
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| Avoid work in translation of Germinal |
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| Throw a sickie and hang around close to mum |
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| Shirk work — in African countries one loses interest |
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| Pretend to be ill to avoid work |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Apr 2019 |
| Fake sickness to shirk work |
The Washington Post Sunday |
03 Feb 2019 |
| Fake illness needs mother to stay around |
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| Note fish in sea abroad seem diseased |
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| Avoid work by pretending to be ill |
Family Time |
22 Apr 2018 |
| Pretend to be ill to delay graduate at the start |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Apr 2018 |
| Attempt to look bad, having lithium in source of food |
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| Parent to stick around for loaf |
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| Swing the lead making parent hang around |
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| To swing the lead is normal in Germany, to a limited extent |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Jan 2018 |
| Feign illness to avoid work |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2017 |
| Feign illness to avoid work |
The Washington Post |
24 Aug 2017 |
| Take VAT off malt vinegar or put it on, doing nothing? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Jul 2017 |
| Feign illness to avoid work |
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| Avoid work |
Universal |
21 Sep 2016 |
| Feign illness to avoid work |
The Times Concise |
21 Jun 2016 |
| Avoid work delay after morning's over |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
31 Mar 2016 |
| Fake an illness to avoid work, e.g |
Universal |
15 Mar 2016 |
| Avoid work |
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| Mother to hang about and waste a doctor's time |
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| Work out perhaps this is the job of the idle? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
14 Oct 2015 |
| Seem ill: upset a gremlin |
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| Loiter behind Mum and pretend to be ill |
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| Pretend to be ill to avoid working with horribly mean girl |
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| African country next to Niger lacking one loaf |
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| Starts to express reservations after mother gets Heather to feign sickness |
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| Claim to have illness caused by a gremlin |
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| Dodge work |
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| Feign illness to avoid work |
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| Goldbrick |
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| Avoid work |
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| Second one exits African countries to avoid duty |
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| Goldbrick |
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| Avoid work |
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| Shirk |
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| Feign illness |
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| Fake illness |
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| Avoid work |
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| Shirk or "goldbrick.” |
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| Shirk. |
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| Feigh illness. |
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