| & 17D 1989 comedy-drama film featuring musicians Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer (7,5) |
Mirror Quiz |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Enigma |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Set snarls, really extreme, linked to DA's puzzle (7) |
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| Something secret, my disturbed rest at end of the day (7) |
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| Detective yarn my story resembles (7) |
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| Unexplained happening (7) |
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| Enigma, puzzle (7) |
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| Such a play with noisy girl changing tyre (7) |
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New York Times |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Unknown crime novel (7) |
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| Something difficult to explain or understand (7) |
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| Whodunnit (7) |
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| 'The --', 1929 novel featuring detective Ellery Queen (7) |
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| Enigma |
Puzzler Backwords |
07 Mar 2025 |
| "Cozy" literary genre |
LA Times Daily |
25 Feb 2025 |
| One doesn't understand how my tyres could look like this (7) |
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| "_ Science Theater 3000" |
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| Genre for Agatha Award winners |
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| Enigma |
Mirror Tea Time |
05 Jan 2025 |
| Crossword setter's pen hiding old ruler - that's hard to understand (7) |
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| My eating endless oysters is a problem (7) |
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| Puzzle, conundrum |
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| First, earphones only removed from my stereo. Why? It's a puzzle (7) |
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| Scooby Doo's ___ Machine |
TV |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Inexplicable matter (7) |
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| We hear Miss Terry is a perplexing puzzle (7) |
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| PBS anthology series |
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| But this early play is not necessarily a whodunit (7) |
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| Baffling problem (7) |
Puzzler |
29 Aug 2024 |
| Puzzle |
The Times Sunday Concise |
18 Aug 2024 |
| Puzzling occurrence (7) |
The Guardian Quick |
14 Aug 2024 |
| Novel genre that focuses on stories around crime or secrets like "Gone Girl" |
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| Enigma |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Jun 2024 |
| Sue Grafton offering |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Jun 2024 |
| Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained. (7) |
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| The secret of Skinny's biography - nothing's replaced by gibberish, essentially |
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| Baffling phenomenon (7) |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Jun 2024 |
| Something that is hard to explain or to understand (7) |
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| Unsolved problem |
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| Mister E tells of a puzzling crime (7) |
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| Unfinished novel by Charles Dickens (3,7,2,5,5) |
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| My tyres are an enigma (7) |
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| 1929 detective novel by Ellery Queen (3,5,3,7) |
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| I hear that Mr E is a complete enigma (7) |
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| See 13 Across |
The Guardian Weekend |
02 Mar 2024 |
| Unsolved situation |
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| Something one can't explain (7) |
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| Hear man's address to unknown puzzle (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Jan 2024 |
| Baffling problem (7) |
Puzzler |
10 Jan 2024 |
| Something that Holmes could solve (7) |
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| "Scooby-Doo! ___ Incorporated," animated TV series that is part of the Scooby-Doo franchise |
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| See 16 Down |
The Guardian Weekend |
13 May 2023 |
| Agatha Christie genre |
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| Detective's genre? |
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| The Chester ____ Plays are a medieval drama series revived in 1951, and will next be performed in June and July 2023 |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
16 Oct 2022 |
| Something not understood |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jul 2022 |
| It passes all understanding |
Irish Times Simplex |
18 Jun 2022 |
| Puzzle |
The Guardian Quick |
13 Jun 2022 |
| It can't be explained |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Suspense novel |
Newsday |
07 Mar 2022 |
| Whodunit genre |
Universal |
24 Jan 2022 |
| My tyres burst? Whodunnit! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Tale, altered in the middle, following the setter's puzzle |
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| Book genre |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Jul 2021 |
| Your setter's singular attempt to pen English puzzle |
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| Conundrum |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jan 2021 |
| P.D. James specialty |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Dec 2020 |
| . Queen entering my hovel expressing puzzlement |
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| Enigma |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jul 2020 |
| Setter's tale exchanged Oscar for England's Closed Book |
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| Genre of the Edgar Awards |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2020 |
| Genre of the Edgar Awards |
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| Whodunit |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Dec 2019 |
| Case that hasn’t been closed? |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Oct 2019 |
| It can't be explained |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Jul 2019 |
| Can't figure out why my tyres burst |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Jun 2019 |
| Case that hasn't been closed? |
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| Enigma; obscurity |
The Times Concise |
09 Oct 2018 |
| Shakespeare's skill, an inexplicable phenomenon |
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| A ____ play is a staged Bible story |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
25 Feb 2018 |
| Loveless person giving away nothing in this writer's thriller |
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| Closed book -- whodunnit |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 May 2017 |
| Puzzle as the first person's tyres burst |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Feb 2017 |
| Secret doctrine |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jul 2016 |
| Conundrum: drug with a title in report? |
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| A thing hard to explain |
The Times Concise |
14 Jul 2015 |
| Book genre |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Mar 2015 |
| Whodunit |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Feb 2015 |
| What often comes with a twist? |
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| Object of speculation |
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| Agatha Christie's genre |
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| Queen's genre |
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| Agatha Christie genre |
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| Whodunit |
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| Agatha Christie offering |
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| Whodunit, for example |
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| Carolyn Keene's genre |
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| Something to figure out |
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| Something to figure out |
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| Christie product |
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| Open case |
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| Josephine Tey's genre |
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| Grafton genre |
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| See 52-Across |
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| Head-scratcher |
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| Whodunit |
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| Mind-boggler |
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| Christie product |
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| Unkown |
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| P.D. James offering |
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| Detective story |
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| John Dickson Carr's genre |
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| Agatha Christie genre |
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| Christie product |
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| Agatha Christie output |
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| Favorite hammock reading. |
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| Rex Stout story. |
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| Popular book. |
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| Story of a sort. |
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| Inexplicable phenomenon. |
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| Edgar Allan Poe's specialty. |
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| John Dickson Carr specialty. |
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| Type of story. |
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