| Great suffering |
LA Times Daily |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Want and mean to lose a pound (6) |
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| Skinflint with head of year revealing unhappiness (6) |
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| Horror movie starring Kathy Bates |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
20 Jun 2025 |
| Despair |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 May 2025 |
| 1987 story by Stephen King (6) |
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| Kathy Bates won Best Actress for it |
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| Intense unhappiness |
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| Sadness (6) |
Puzzler |
18 Apr 2025 |
| 1991 Stephen King adaptation starring James Caan and an Oscar-winning Kathy Bates (6) |
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| Suffering |
The Sun Mini |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Such unhappiness for Scrooge at the beginning of the year! (6) |
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| Yes! I'm right! It can be wretched for you (6) |
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| Great unhappiness or suffering |
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| Blossom is eryngium but causes a bit of unhappiness (6) |
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| My accepting a rotten rise leads to unhappiness (6) |
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| Perdition a Kathy Bates film (6) |
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| Perdition - Kathy Bates film (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Mar 2025 |
| The state of Scrooge before the start of Yuletide (6) |
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| Feeling that loves company |
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| Stephen King novel from 1987 a and the movie starring Kathy Bates (6) |
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| Stephen King novel from 1987 - and the movie starring Kathy Bates (6) |
The Guardian Weekend |
08 Mar 2025 |
| Killjoy is boring drunk, having ejected one Republican |
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| My 17 spells great unhappiness (6) |
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| Stephen King book |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Feb 2025 |
| Kathy Bates film |
Mirror Tea Time |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Kathy Bates movie based on a Stephen King novel (6) |
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| Very unhappy type lacking generosity, no liberal (6) |
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| Yes! I'm right! It causes wretchedness |
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| Saying: - loves company |
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| Great distress |
Newsday |
03 Dec 2024 |
| Cheapskate has yen for being unhappy |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Nov 2024 |
| "- loves company" |
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| Our star's movie with James Caan, based on a Stephen King thriller |
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| Skinflint has variable dejection (6) |
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| Stephen King novel |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Oct 2024 |
| State of suffering is covered by writer remarkably when discontented (6) |
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| Total woe |
USA Today |
13 Sep 2024 |
| What ruining my rise will produce! (6) |
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| One who doesn't like spending years in wretched state |
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| Despair |
USA Today |
10 Aug 2024 |
| 1987 Stephen King book |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Aug 2024 |
| Unfortunately my sire loves company (6) |
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| "__ loves company" |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jul 2024 |
| Kathy Bates flick based on a Stephen King novel (6) |
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| 1990 film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name |
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| It's my rise to wretchedness! |
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| Woe, despair (6) |
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| Extreme unhappiness |
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| Wretchedness (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
27 May 2024 |
| Wretchedness |
LA Times Daily |
08 May 2024 |
| Novel by Stephen King featuring the character Paul Sheldon (6) |
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| Unhappiness as my rise is altered (6) |
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| Like Scrooge giving away pounds and suffering |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
25 Apr 2024 |
| The sad state of a niggard? (6) |
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| Is great unhappiness the lot of the skinflint? (6) |
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| Kathy Bates film based on a Stephen King novel |
LA Times Daily |
17 Apr 2024 |
| Distress, wretchedness |
Irish Times Simplex |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Unsatisfactory rise is at the heart of my suffering (6) |
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| Intense unhappiness or discomfort |
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| My rise has been ruined because of the depression (6) |
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| Woe for 1 Across (6) |
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| Unfortunate state of Scrooge before the end of the story (6) |
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| Wretched state of mind |
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| Severe distress, unhappiness |
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| A shocking rise in my unhappy state (6) |
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| A killjoy like Harpagon getting left out |
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| 1987 Stephen King novel featuring the character Paul Sheldon |
Mirror Quiz |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Stephen King novel in which a writer is nursed by a fan (6) |
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| Pound stolen from Scrooge-like killjoy (6) |
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| Deep gloom with motorway to southeast and railway (6) |
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| Drunk, heartless, is internally suffering |
The Guardian Cryptic |
10 Nov 2023 |
| Film featuring Bates Motel originally is creepy (not introduction) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
13 Oct 2023 |
| Sadness |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Oct 2023 |
| Stephen King novel and 1990 film starring Kathy Bates |
The Guardian Weekend |
12 Aug 2023 |
| Unhappiness |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Jun 2023 |
| Distress, wretchedness |
Irish Times Simplex |
26 Apr 2023 |
| Suffering like Scrooge, perhaps, having lost pound |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Mar 2023 |
| Emotion that 'loves company' |
USA Today |
11 Mar 2023 |
| Deep unhappiness |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Dec 2022 |
| Great woe |
LA Times Daily |
29 Nov 2022 |
| 1987 Stephen King novel |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Oct 2022 |
| Woe |
USA Today |
21 Sep 2022 |
| Suffering, as Scrooge might be described, having lost pounds? |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Apr 2022 |
| Unhappiness |
USA Today |
02 Feb 2022 |
| Great unhappiness |
USA Today |
18 Dec 2021 |
| Heroine of Annie Wilkes’s favorite novels |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2021 |
| Sadness |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Oct 2021 |
| Promise ryots, marginally reduce distress |
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| Unhappiness of Scrooge at the start of Yuletide |
Irish Times Crosaire |
30 Aug 2021 |
| Great distress |
Universal |
16 Aug 2021 |
| Wet blanket near person at end of day |
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| Novel by Stephen King |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
14 Jun 2021 |
| What loves company, in a saying |
New York Times |
07 Jun 2021 |
| Mean to ignore learner's unhappiness |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 May 2021 |
| Great distress |
The Times Concise |
03 Apr 2021 |
| Is Queen entertained by my sadness |
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| Killjoy is mean to exclude student |
|
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| Unhappiness of Scrooge followed by joy at last |
|
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| Yes, I'm unhappy to take in a bit of recreation |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Jul 2020 |
| 1990 psychological horror film starring Kathy Bates for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress |
|
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| Wretchedness |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2020 |
| Like Scrooge losing pound: it's anguish |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2020 |
| Novel where Scrooge gets jolly in the end |
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| Distress, wretchedness |
Irish Times Simplex |
17 Mar 2020 |
| Novel where Scrooge gets jolly in the end |
|
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| Anguish Scrooge thus described having lost money? |
|
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| Suffering long way on south-eastern railway |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Dec 2019 |
| Great discomfort |
The Times Concise |
25 Dec 2019 |
| Stingy; losing pound will get you grief |
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| King novel that shared the first Bram Stoker Award |
LA Times Daily |
06 Oct 2019 |
| King novel that shared the first Bram Stoker Award |
The Washington Post |
06 Oct 2019 |
| Stingy; losing pound will get you grief |
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| Blue state |
Newsday |
21 Sep 2019 |
| Wretchedness |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Sep 2019 |
| 1990 thriller about the dark side of fandom |
The New Yorker |
22 Apr 2019 |
| It loves company, it's said |
USA Today |
13 Mar 2019 |
| It loves company, it's said |
|
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| King novel that shared the first Bram Stoker Award (1987) |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Nov 2018 |
| Word that sounds like a state when accented on the second syllable rather than the first |
New York Times |
27 Sep 2018 |
| Wretched conditions |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jul 2018 |
| Woe is me, mistakenly on right – butt of party |
|
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| Skinflint Yankee in the Great Depression |
|
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| Word that sounds like a state when accented on the second syllable rather than the first |
|
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| Wretchedness |
The Times Concise |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Wet blanket turning semi-dry with a bit of dampness squeezed out |
|
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| It loves company, it's said |
Universal |
09 Oct 2017 |
| Company lover? |
New York Times |
16 Jul 2017 |
| Woe |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Jun 2017 |
| Scrooge-like, ignoring core of all unhappiness |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Apr 2017 |
| Blue state? |
New York Times |
27 Mar 2017 |
| Dreadful-sounding 1990 movie starring Kathy Bates and James Caan |
The Washington Post |
07 Feb 2017 |
| It loves company, it's said |
|
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| Company lover? |
|
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| Blue state? |
|
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| Great suffering |
LA Times Daily |
25 Oct 2016 |
| Organises my rise out of the blue? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
03 Jun 2016 |
| 1990 film featuring zealous fan Annie Wilkes |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Apr 2016 |
| Great suffering |
|
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| Mental distress or discomfort |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 Dec 2015 |
| Despair |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Nov 2015 |
| Wretchedness |
Irish Times Simplex |
27 Aug 2015 |
| Leaders abandoning PM and his very hapless state |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Jun 2015 |
| Stephen King novel |
|
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| King novel |
|
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| Kathy Bates film |
|
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| Stephen King classic |
|
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| Great suffering |
|
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| Stephen King classic |
|
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| Lover of company? |
|
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| Woe |
|
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| Stephen King classic |
|
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| Wretchedness |
|
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| James Caan movie based on a Stephen King novel |
|
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| Abject despair |
|
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| Hell |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
|
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| Wretchedness |
|
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| Lover of company? |
|
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| Lover of company? |
|
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| Company lover |
|
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| Company lover? |
|
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| Good thing to be put out of |
|
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| Lowest state? |
|
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| Company's company? |
|
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| King novel |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
|
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| Company lover? |
|
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| Lover of company |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
|
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| Company lover? |
|
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| Stephen King title |
|
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| Company lover? |
|
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| Oscar-winning film for Kathy Bates |
|
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| Acute discomfort |
|
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| Company lover? |
|
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| Stephen King book |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
|
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| Stephen King novel |
|
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| Stephen King white-knuckler |
|
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| Tribulation |
|
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| Kathy Bates film |
|
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| Kathy Bates' Oscar film |
|
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| Kathy Bates Oscar-winning film |
|
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| Stephen King title |
|
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| 1990 Kathy Bates film |
|
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| Company lover |
|
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| Woe |
|
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| Lover of company |
|
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| "___ loves company" |
|
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| Distress |
|
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| Lover of company. |
|
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| Stephen King novel about writer Paul Sheldon |
|
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| Unhappy state. |
|
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| "They say ___ loves company." |
|
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| Blues, old style. |
|
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| Wretchedness. |
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