| Large cephalopod | The Telegraph Quick | 29 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Month to prepare soup with seafood (7) | Puzzler Cryptic | 23 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Large marine mollusc (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature, wheke in Maori (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea being cold, to work outside | The Times Sunday Cryptic | 22 Jun 2025 | 
          
            | Cephalopod with eight tentacles (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-armed creature | Commuter | 06 Jun 2025 | 
          
            | Eight-armed creature | Puzzler Backwords | 01 Jun 2025 | 
          
            | Eight-armed cephalopod | The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 29 May 2025 | 
          
            | Autumn work for army type | The Sun Two Speed | 25 May 2025 | 
          
            | Tentacled creature | The Sun Two Speed | 25 May 2025 | 
          
            | After short month, prepare soup for sea creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature | The Telegraph Quick | 21 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Dangerous rock pool creature, blue ringed - (Picture A) |  |  | 
          
            | Month's work for swimmer (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-legged sea creature that can change both color and texture to camouflage itself from predators |  |  | 
          
            | Multi-armed creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | A sea creature with many arms |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-limbed ocean creature that releases a cloud of ink to confuse predators when threatened |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-armed creature (7) | Puzzler | 20 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | Squid's cousin | Newsday | 09 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | Creature involved in awful cop-outs (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-tentacled marine creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Army type in appalling cop-outs | The Sun Two Speed | 27 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | Tentacled creature | The Sun Two Speed | 27 Jan 2025 | 
          
            | What, if not a sea creature, is the name of an English psychedelic rock band featuring Paul, and his brother, Nigel Griggs, releasing Restless Night (1971) |  |  | 
          
            | Month's work for one with plenty of feeling? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Company upset leading American person with widespread influence (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Its eight members are legless! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Well-armed sea creature? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature in work after a month (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea-creature could make soup after a month (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Smartcard used to collect fares in Hong Kong that spawned the likes of London's Oyster card (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature | The Telegraph Quick | 27 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Powerful organisation's wretched cop-outs | The Times Quick Cryptic | 22 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Sea creature that can unscrew bottle caps | USA Today | 18 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Edible mollusc (7) | The Guardian Quick | 15 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Cephalopod mollusc | The Times Concise | 13 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Denizen of the deep finding work after October |  |  | 
          
            | Tentacled devilfish |  |  | 
          
            | Mollusc with tentacles (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Get sea creature to work after a month (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Many-armed mollusc (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Month at work to get sea creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | What sea creature has eight suckered arms? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Cephalopod with blue blood | USA Today | 19 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | Copouts involving well-armed ink-squirter (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Get the cops out! He's all arms! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Katherine Jenkins performed as this character on The Masked Singer in 2020 (7) |  |  | 
          
            | EIGHT-TENTACLED CREATURE (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-limbed cephalopod | The Telegraph Quick | 08 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | An eight-armed cephalopod |  |  | 
          
            | Seafood meal: barbecued - (Picture E) |  |  | 
          
            | Marine invertebrate related to nautili and cuttlefish | The Times Specialist | 30 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Creature with eight arms | Family Time | 30 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Tentacular marine creature (7) | The Guardian Quick | 24 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Short month to work on sea-creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Month to get over flipping drink for inker |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature creates musical work on a short month (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Musical work on Halloween, e.g.? | Universal | 28 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Eight-armed ink dispenser? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Denizen of the deep finding work after 31 days |  |  | 
          
            | One with beak in court splits over work | The Times Sunday Cryptic | 14 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Eight-limbed sea creature |  |  | 
          
            | Take a month over the composition 'The Sea Monster' (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Creature with tentacles |  |  | 
          
            | "My ___ Teacher" (2020 Netflix film about an 8-limbed mollusk) (7) |  |  | 
          
            | "Armed" sea creature | Eugene Sheffer | 08 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Business picked up leading American person with widespread influence (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Cephalopod mollusc with eight suckered tentacles (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-limbed marine creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Cephalopod mollusc with eight arms and a beak | Mirror Quiz | 03 May 2024 | 
          
            | Sea creature with eight tentacles (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Tentacled creature | The Sun Two Speed | 29 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Army threat to sailor? | The Sun Two Speed | 29 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | It has eight arms (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Company returning leading American sea creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Doc to push inside sea creature |  |  | 
          
            | Living ink squirter | Premier Sunday | 21 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | A month to work on sea creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-armed creature | Puzzler Backwords | 17 Mar 2024 | 
          
            | Cephalopod mollusc with eight long suckered tentacles (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature could be made into soup after a month (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Messily scoop out most of seafood (7) | Puzzler Cryptic | 24 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Tentacled creature | The Sun Two Speed | 23 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Jet-propelled swimmer's month at work | The Sun Two Speed | 23 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Well-armed submarine type! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Love court work for powerful organisation | The Telegraph Cryptic | 12 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Love court work for powerful organisation (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Armed force in the ocean |  |  | 
          
            | This has eight tentacles (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Cephalopod | The Guardian Quick | 08 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Work, after 31 days, for organisation with widespread influence (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Work, after little more than four weeks, on sea-creature (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-limbed sea creature (Picture A) |  |  | 
          
            | Mollusc soup cooked by our chef today for starters |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-limbed mollusc | The Times Concise | 09 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Squid’s cousin | Thomas Joseph | 08 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Army threat to sailors? |  |  | 
          
            | Freak cops out, being heavily armed (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature, head in focus, heading off | The Telegraph Cryptic | 06 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Eight-limbed marine mollusk |  |  | 
          
            | Paul the ___, eight-limbed mollusk famous for correctly predicting the results during the 2010 FIFA World Cup |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature with arms | Eugene Sheffer | 22 Jun 2023 | 
          
            | Creature with a siphon and a beak | The Times Specialist Sunday | 23 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Army swimmer? | LA Times Daily | 05 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Armed force at sea? | New York Times | 23 Oct 2022 | 
          
            | Cuttlefish relative | USA Today | 29 Sep 2022 | 
          
            | Sea creature | The Times Concise | 16 Sep 2022 | 
          
            | Sea creature, first in particular place, not large | The Telegraph Cryptic | 29 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Seafood soup rotten at end of month | The Times Cryptic | 25 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Cephalopod | The Times Concise | 07 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | Sea creature | The Telegraph Quick | 23 May 2022 | 
          
            | Eight-armed creature | The Times Concise | 17 May 2022 | 
          
            | Firm backed to pressure US ink producer | The Telegraph Cryptic | 29 Sep 2021 | 
          
            | Cop-outs (anag.) | The Telegraph Quick | 04 Sep 2021 | 
          
            | Sea creature with three hearts | The Washington Post Sunday | 22 Aug 2021 | 
          
            | Eight-legged sea creature |  |  | 
          
            | Month at work for army swimmer? | The Sun Two Speed | 28 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Tentacled creature | The Sun Two Speed | 28 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Creature that might squirt ink and use tools | New York Times | 23 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Marine creature | The Times Concise | 04 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | One indeed armed at sea! | The Sun Two Speed | 10 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Eight-limbed creature | The Times Concise | 01 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | With principal made redundant, centre visited by head in large organisation | The Telegraph Toughie | 29 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | Commander leading American organisation that seems to be everywhere |  |  | 
          
            | Army type in appalling cop-outs | The Sun Two Speed | 20 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Well-armed character that squirms when caught | The Telegraph Cryptic | 28 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Sea animal needing work after month | The Sun Two Speed | 07 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Sea creature | The Telegraph Quick | 06 Jul 2020 | 
          
            | Month to get work for army type, in the main? |  |  | 
          
            | Month at work for army swimmer | The Sun Two Speed | 08 May 2020 | 
          
            | Seafood dish of the month followed by canned soup |  |  | 
          
            | Autumnal work for army type? | The Sun Two Speed | 19 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Army threat to sailor? | The Sun Two Speed | 02 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Tako, on a sushi menu |  |  | 
          
            | Tako, on a sushi menu | New York Times | 07 Nov 2019 | 
          
            | Metaphor for a conglomerate | Newsday | 26 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Powerful body's miserable cop-outs |  |  | 
          
            | One traveling via water jets | Newsday | 20 Jul 2019 | 
          
            | Month's work for army swimmer | The Sun Two Speed | 04 Jul 2019 | 
          
            | Animal Squidward Tentacles is in the series "SpongeBob SquarePants" |  |  | 
          
            | Squid's cousin | Family Time | 24 Mar 2019 | 
          
            | Tentacled creature | The Telegraph Quick | 10 Jan 2019 | 
          
            | Tentacled cephalopod | The Guardian Speedy | 23 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | Cop-outs (anag.) | The Telegraph Quick | 18 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | Work at end of month for far-flung organisation | The Telegraph Cryptic | 14 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | Jet-propelled swimmer's month at work | The Sun Two Speed | 14 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | Main inhabitant has work after a month |  |  | 
          
            | Relative of a squid | Family Time | 05 Nov 2018 | 
          
            | Sequel to 'September Song' that brings the sea to mind? | The Telegraph Toughie | 23 Oct 2018 | 
          
            | Ink-squirting sea creature | Premier Sunday | 23 Sep 2018 | 
          
            | Ceramic business set up by American organisation with influence |  |  | 
          
            | Venomous mollusk | The Washington Post Sunday | 19 Aug 2018 | 
          
            | In several weeks work one may use a lot of ink |  |  | 
          
            | Cops out, deployed to find sea creature | The Telegraph Cryptic | 07 Aug 2018 | 
          
            | Company up above leading American ink producer |  |  | 
          
            | Autumn work for army type | The Sun Two Speed | 17 May 2018 | 
          
            | Company up above leading American ink producer |  |  | 
          
            | Ocean-dweller | The Telegraph Quick | 21 Apr 2018 | 
          
            | One having many members in work after month | The Telegraph Cryptic | 07 Apr 2018 | 
          
            | Tentacled sea creature | The Guardian Speedy | 31 Mar 2018 | 
          
            | Eight-armed creature | The Times Concise | 21 Mar 2018 | 
          
            | Month to prepare soup with seafood | The Sun Two Speed | 19 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | Tentacled sea creature | The Sun Two Speed | 19 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | Company rejected best American swimmer | The Telegraph Cryptic | 14 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | Focus on annexing the peak, force out the creature |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-limbed mollusc | The Times Concise | 17 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | Army sea creature? | Universal | 09 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | Army sea creature? |  |  | 
          
            | Short month's work for army type! | The Telegraph Toughie | 27 Dec 2017 | 
          
            | Far-reaching organisation can tempt others at first into work |  |  | 
          
            | Month with no drink upset army type! |  |  | 
          
            | Old copper's protecting best swimmer |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-legged sea creature |  |  | 
          
            | Autumn work for army type | The Times Cryptic | 21 Feb 2017 | 
          
            | Autumn work for army type |  |  | 
          
            | 2 down is contracted to take order serving up drink at fish restaurant | Irish Times Crosaire | 18 Feb 2017 | 
          
            | Month's work for army type? | The Telegraph Cryptic | 02 Jun 2016 | 
          
            | One with great influence over court work |  |  | 
          
            | One with great influence over court work | The Times Cryptic | 10 May 2016 | 
          
            | Work after month to find sea creature | The Telegraph Cryptic | 14 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Seafood and duck starters in carvery totally work |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature company sent back to kill us | The Telegraph Cryptic | 08 Sep 2015 | 
          
            | Well-armed creature? | USA Today | 01 Sep 2015 | 
          
            | Sea being cold, to work harbours |  |  | 
          
            | Squid's cousin | Newsday | 25 Jan 2015 | 
          
            | Set up company on time, and work for influential organisation | The Telegraph Cryptic | 18 Jan 2015 | 
          
            | Squid's cousin |  |  | 
          
            | Well-armed creature? |  |  | 
          
            | Despotic organization |  |  | 
          
            | Spineless creature cops out when challenged |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature with suckers |  |  | 
          
            | Well-armed predator? |  |  | 
          
            | Army creature |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-armed sea creature |  |  | 
          
            | Sucker-armed swimmer |  |  | 
          
            | Japanese cuisine staple |  |  | 
          
            | Well-armed animal? |  |  | 
          
            | Ink squirter |  |  | 
          
            | Army threat? |  |  | 
          
            | Frank Norris novel, with "The" |  |  | 
          
            | Creature suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |  |  | 
          
            | One that's armed and dangerous? |  |  | 
          
            | Well-armed predator? |  |  | 
          
            | Relative of a nautilus |  |  | 
          
            | Ocean dweller with a beak |  |  | 
          
            | Ink dispenser? |  |  | 
          
            | Ocean dweller with a beak |  |  | 
          
            | What pulpo is, on a Spanish menu |  |  | 
          
            | Carnivorous mollusk |  |  | 
          
            | Ocean floor denizen |  |  | 
          
            | Devilfish |  |  | 
          
            | Ocean floor denizen |  |  | 
          
            | Tentacled swimmer |  |  | 
          
            | Invertebrate with three hearts |  |  | 
          
            | Sucker-armed swimmer |  |  | 
          
            | One that's armed and dangerous? |  |  | 
          
            | Month's work for camo-covered marine type? |  |  | 
          
            | Army threat? |  |  | 
          
            | Cuttlefish |  |  | 
          
            | Conglomerate |  |  | 
          
            | Mo. for an ink producer? |  |  | 
          
            | Well-armed mollusk |  |  | 
          
            | Creature in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." |  |  | 
          
            | Sea mollusk. |  |  | 
          
            | "The ___," by Frank Norris. |  |  | 
          
            | Eight-armed cephalopod. |  |  | 
          
            | Sea creature |  |  |