| "What's the ___?" |
USA Today |
22 Oct 2025 |
| Physics topic |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Oct 2025 |
| More dull business? (6) |
The Sun Two Speed |
16 Sep 2025 |
| The Heart of the ___, Graham Greene novel (6) |
Puzzler |
13 Sep 2025 |
| "What's the ___?" |
USA Today |
01 Sep 2025 |
| Count as substance (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
09 Aug 2025 |
| Stuff (6) |
Mirror Quick |
09 Aug 2025 |
| Stuff (6) |
Mirror Quick |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Count as substance (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Molecular structure to he of importance (6) |
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| What's wrong? It's less lustrous (6) |
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| The stuff must be important (6) |
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| Problem in subject under consideration (6) |
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| What's wrong with having an affair? (6) |
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| It's duller - that's what's wrong with it (6) |
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| Stuff |
Mirror Quick |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Count as substance |
Mirror Cryptic |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Molecular structure to be of importance (6) |
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| Subject to be important (6) |
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| Question tea party organiser when three characters go missing? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
04 Feb 2025 |
| Old lady beginning to think breaks are important |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
02 Feb 2025 |
| Less lustrous stuff (6) |
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| Less brilliant, which does count (6) |
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| Something that occupies space |
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| Substance |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Jan 2025 |
| Have significance |
USA Today |
08 Jan 2025 |
| Stuff mother takes time going through (6) |
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| Count as business |
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| In physics, substance as opposed to energy (6) |
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| It's less glossy a" that's what's wrong (6) |
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| It's less glossy - that's what's wrong (6) |
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| Stuff to be of importance (6) |
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| Physical things are important |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
17 Dec 2024 |
| This may be presented in a novel form (7,6) |
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| Having less polish, which does make a difference (6) |
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| "You're made of atoms. You ___!" (science pun) |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2024 |
| Substance that could put a mare out of a race (6) |
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| Black Lives ___ |
USA Today |
21 Oct 2024 |
| Stuff |
Mirror Quick |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Count as substance |
Mirror Cryptic |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Substance to be of some importance (6) |
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| He's tangled it up: that's what's wrong (6) |
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| The question of how mother holds a tin opener (6) |
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| Anything of substance or importance |
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| Extract, sample (6) |
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| Be important as an affair (6) |
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| Thing of consequence (6) |
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| Something amiss that may be of importance (6) |
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| Affair to be of consequence |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Aug 2024 |
| Substance |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Aug 2024 |
| See 59-Across |
Universal |
08 Aug 2024 |
| Passengers in tram at terminal carry weight? (6) |
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| At ground level, Terry starts to produce the thing of consequence (6) |
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| Such stuff will be of importance (6) |
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| More dull business? |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Substance |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Its states include solid, liquid, and gas |
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| Such stuff does have importance (6) |
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| Things that are important (6) |
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| Are of importance. That's the trouble (6) |
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| Be important |
Thomas Joseph |
17 May 2024 |
| Are of consequence in an affair (6) |
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| Affair |
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| Count as substance |
Mirror Cryptic |
07 May 2024 |
| Issue |
Mirror Quick |
07 May 2024 |
| ____-of-fact |
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| "If you were the only girl in the world, and I were the only boy; Nothing else would ... in the world today; We could go on loving in the same old way" |
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| Material |
Mirror Classic |
07 Apr 2024 |
| Be important |
Mirror Quick |
02 Apr 2024 |
| The affair does have importance (6) |
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| Count as substance |
Mirror Cryptic |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Issue to be of importance (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
18 Mar 2024 |
| Make a difference |
Commuter |
15 Mar 2024 |
| Substance that be of importance (6) |
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| Stuff for which mother needs extra time |
The Guardian Quiptic |
11 Mar 2024 |
| Something is not funny first, it's very serious (2,8,6) |
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| Duller stuff (6) |
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| In substance, that's what's wrong |
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| "Are important," he snarls (6) |
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| Infection (6) |
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| Substance that will count (6) |
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| The substance does make a difference (6) |
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| The material does make a difference (6) |
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| Having less polish, in substance (6) |
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| "That's what's wrong," he snarls (6) |
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| Make a difference |
The Guardian Quick |
09 Dec 2023 |
| Make a difference |
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| Make a difference |
LA Times Daily |
19 Nov 2023 |
| Have significance |
USA Today |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Be significant |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Sep 2023 |
| States of ___ (solid, liquid, gas, plasma) |
USA Today |
27 Sep 2023 |
| Subject |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Jul 2023 |
| Issue before court might be regarded as comparatively dull |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Mar 2023 |
| 'What's the ___?' |
New York Times |
15 Jan 2023 |
| Dark or gray physics stuff |
Family Time |
14 Nov 2022 |
| Be relevant |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jul 2022 |
| Be important |
USA Today |
12 Jun 2022 |
| Physical substance |
Irish Times Simplex |
09 May 2022 |
| ''As a __ of fact . . .'' |
Newsday |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Carry weight |
Newsday |
12 Mar 2022 |
| From which all physical things are made |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Jan 2022 |
| Dark or gray physics stuff |
Family Time |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Substance |
The Guardian Quick |
07 Oct 2021 |
| Make a difference to the runner starting treatment in hospital |
Irish Times Crosaire |
06 Oct 2021 |
| Subject |
Canadiana |
16 Aug 2021 |
| Physical substance |
Irish Times Simplex |
02 Jul 2021 |
| Body found in restroom at terminus |
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| "Dark ___," 1996 song by Porcupine Tree from their album "Signify" |
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| Have some impact |
LA Times Daily |
29 May 2021 |
| Have some impact |
The Washington Post |
29 May 2021 |
| Subject |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Apr 2021 |
| Make a difference to the runner starting treatment in hospital |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Be important |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Mar 2021 |
| Count carrying more weight after transitioning |
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| See 16ac. |
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| Make a difference |
Newsday |
11 Oct 2020 |
| More dull business? |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Sep 2020 |
| Substance |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Sep 2020 |
| No laughing ___ |
New York Times |
07 Sep 2020 |
| Prosaic concern, not on law |
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| Duller substance |
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| Make a difference |
The Washington Post |
04 May 2020 |
| Make a difference |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2020 |
| From which all physical things are made |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Substance, material |
The Times Concise |
08 Oct 2019 |
| Physical substance |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 Oct 2019 |
| What we're made of |
The Washington Post Sunday |
11 Aug 2019 |
| Mother drinking Tango becomes issue |
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| Be important |
The Times Concise |
07 Jun 2018 |
| Stuff that's less shiny? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 May 2018 |
| Mother has a little tequila problem |
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| Issue to be of importance |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Apr 2018 |
| Be important |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Apr 2018 |
| Physics stuff |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Mar 2018 |
| Physics stuff |
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| Affair to be of consequence |
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| Word that can follow the first parts of 17-, 25-, 42- and 55-Across |
USA Today |
22 May 2017 |
| Physicist giving name to frequency shift |
The Times Concise |
24 Apr 2017 |
| Word that can follow the first parts of 17-, 25-, 42- and 55-Across |
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| Queen looked down upon by dull subject |
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| Subject could be of importance |
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| Stuff Mad Hatter had crazily taken out |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 May 2016 |
| Subject |
Premier Sunday |
17 Apr 2016 |
| Be important; substance |
The Times Concise |
30 Mar 2016 |
| "As a __ of fact ..." |
LA Times Daily |
23 Mar 2016 |
| Subject |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Mar 2016 |
| Carry weight |
Newsday |
23 Jan 2016 |
| Increasingly dull subject |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Jan 2016 |
| Content in business |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Oct 2015 |
| Topic – dull, I hesitate to say |
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| Less lustrous. That's what's wrong |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Aug 2015 |
| Concern parent's shown about infant, finally |
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| Count |
New York Times |
30 May 2015 |
| Make a difference |
Universal |
28 May 2015 |
| What's the problem with wife hiding tense writing? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 Apr 2015 |
| Make a difference |
Jonesin |
09 Apr 2015 |
| Physics topic |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Feb 2015 |
| Count |
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| Make a difference |
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| Physical stuff |
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| Billy Joel "A ___ of Trust" |
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| Stuff what's up? |
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| Be important |
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| Bear significance |
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| Be relevant |
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| Make a difference |
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| Concern |
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| Word with dark or gray |
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| Word with dark or gray |
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| Make a difference |
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| Something to discuss |
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| Have significance |
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| Physics concern |
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| Stuff |
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| Substance |
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| Stuff |
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| Space occupier |
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| Make a difference |
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| See 19-Across |
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| Substance |
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| "Anti" attachment |
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| Be of consequence |
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| Make a difference |
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| Be of consequence |
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| Make a difference |
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| See 19-Across |
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| Mean something |
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| Count |
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| Count |
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| Space occupier |
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| Count |
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| Concern |
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| Concern |
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| Mean something |
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| Space taker-upper |
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| Subject |
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| Subject |
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| Something to discuss |
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| Count |
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| Space occupier |
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| Carry weight |
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| Substance |
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| "What's the --?" |
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| Solid stuff |
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| Physicist's study |
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| Have significance |
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| Gray ___ (brains) |
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| Signify |
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| Archer's "A ___ of Honor" |
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| What mind wins over |
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| "More ___, with less art": Shak. |
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| Topic |
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| "More ___ with less art": "Hamlet" |
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| Be significant |
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| Gray ___ |
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| Be of consequence. |
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| Have importance. |
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| "What does it ___?" |
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| Be of importance. |
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| Import. |
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| Substance |
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| Thing or affair. |
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| ___ of fact. |
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| Signify. |
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| Substance. |
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| Greene's "Heart of the ___." |
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