| Person running a business |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Sep 2025 |
| Speaker describes power base for one making connections |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Switchboard worker |
The Times Concise |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Surgeon who's on the switchboard? |
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| One who performs musical work as rock (8) |
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| Choose alternative saving time - maybe? (8) |
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| Person patches call through to director, finally, following performance |
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| Opera to get right switchboard worker |
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| Dreadfully poor rate for machinist (8) |
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| Person who makes connections on a telephone switchboard or exchange (8) |
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| Surgeon who answers many calls (8) |
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| Phone-company worker |
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| Telephone exchange worker |
Mirror Tea Time |
27 Apr 2025 |
| A trooper could become brain surgeon? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Worker of machinery |
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| New line for a trooper |
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| Contribution from developer, a Tory wheeler-dealer |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Feb 2025 |
| One who establishes connections for a surgeon (8) |
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| Person who works a machine (8) |
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| Machinery driver (8) |
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| Does he make things work in the theatre? (8) |
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| Works to right of machinist (8) |
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| One handling stage drama on hill (8) |
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| Mechanic |
Mirror Quick |
27 Dec 2024 |
| Machinist or surgeon? |
Mirror Cryptic |
27 Dec 2024 |
| One working in the theatre as a telephonist (8) |
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| Telephonist poorer at exchange (8) |
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| One who controls the function of (8) |
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| Old phone switchboard user |
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| Musical drama needs to have right manager (8) |
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| Trained user of a machine (8) |
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| Machine controller |
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| Controls the functioning of staged production group on reflection (8) |
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| Storm trooper captures a worker (8) |
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| Musical work closed with finale from tenor, which may be a plus |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Sep 2024 |
| Driver-roster agent set back to zero (8) |
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| Someone using machinery, at one time a telephone exchange worker (8) |
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| Switchboard controller (8) |
Puzzler |
20 Sep 2024 |
| Sign used in mathematics (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Sep 2024 |
| Rock opera first produced by a worker |
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| A porter gets nothing but he gets things moving (8) |
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| Poor rate negotiated for a worker (8) |
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| Telephonist |
Mirror Tea Time |
20 Jul 2024 |
| Machinery user (8) |
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| Telephonist reforms a trooper (8) |
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| Telephone exchange employee |
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| Phone call facilitator (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
24 Jun 2024 |
| Musical show high spot for a worker |
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| Does he make the apparatus in the theatre work? (8) |
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| Adjusted Poor rate for a worker (8) |
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| Switchboard worker |
Mirror Quick |
05 Apr 2024 |
| Mechanic sees speaker take exercise |
Mirror Cryptic |
05 Apr 2024 |
| Telephonist who works in the theatre? (8) |
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| Expert on surgery or switchboard? (8) |
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| Telephone exchange worker |
Mirror Tea Time |
11 Mar 2024 |
| Worker in the theatre? (8) |
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| Informal term for a person who acts in a shrewd and manipulative way (8) |
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| Person who uses a machine (8) |
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| Mechanic sees speaker take exercise (8) |
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| Technician a trooper shot |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
13 Dec 2023 |
| Conductor of musical on raised platform (8) |
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| Manipulative individual? (8) |
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| Manipulative individual? |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Nov 2023 |
| One handling stage drama in front of hill (8) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
03 Nov 2023 |
| Speaker welcoming physical exercise as runner |
The Times Cryptic |
01 May 2023 |
| Plus or minus sign, say |
The Guardian Quick |
25 Feb 2023 |
| One who talks about exercising person in exchange |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Sep 2022 |
| Switchboard pro |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Local wheeler-dealer or a trooper on the rampage |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Apr 2022 |
| Person using drill interrupts speaker |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Apr 2022 |
| Controller of machinery |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 Apr 2022 |
| Local wheeler-dealer or a trooper on the rampage |
Irish Times Crosaire |
02 Mar 2022 |
| Artwork flipping rubbish, which may be a minus |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Feb 2022 |
| Tour manager with Carmen is upset going to rack and ruin |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Feb 2022 |
| Driver for pointless proportionate representation |
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| Driver for pointless proportionate representation |
The Guardian Cryptic |
14 Jan 2022 |
| 'Smooth ___' (Sade hit) |
USA Today |
11 Jan 2022 |
| Controller of machinery |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Speculator caught out in corporate manoeuvring |
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| Glyndebourne company's trip putting off posh conductor? |
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| Machinist reviewing a report on outworkers, primarily |
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| Tour manager with Carmen is upset going to rack and ruin |
Irish Times Crosaire |
10 Mar 2021 |
| Worker essentially proper at orchestrating |
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| Switchboard worker |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Jul 2020 |
| Travelling performances of Puccini, say, not for everyone? That could be a plus |
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| User of machinery |
The Times Concise |
11 Jun 2020 |
| Controller of machinery |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 May 2020 |
| Frank is not finished with informer or chancer |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 May 2020 |
| Zero personality? |
Universal |
27 Feb 2020 |
| One receiving many calls at work |
Universal |
24 Dec 2019 |
| Controller of a machine |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Dec 2019 |
| One who gives talks about parking next to European driver |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Dec 2019 |
| + or -, to mathematicians |
Newsday |
09 Nov 2019 |
| Wheeler-dealer |
LA Times Daily |
31 Oct 2019 |
| Wheeler-dealer |
The Washington Post |
31 Oct 2019 |
| One that runs musical show on a hill |
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| Has your number as a local chancer |
Irish Times Crosaire |
03 Jul 2019 |
| Poor rate for working agent |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Jun 2019 |
| Switchboard employee |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Jun 2019 |
| Frank isn't finished with informer for losing the head with one of those who has your number |
Irish Times Crosaire |
31 May 2019 |
| Person running a business exercise welcomed by speaker |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 May 2019 |
| Number cruncher? |
Universal |
19 Jan 2019 |
| Smooth talker |
The Washington Post |
03 Jan 2019 |
| Smooth talker |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jan 2019 |
| Wheeler-dealer |
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| Number cruncher? |
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| Smooth talker |
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| Norma maybe a fell runner |
|
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| + or -, in math |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Oct 2018 |
| A trooper working with engineer |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Jun 2018 |
| Work on stage 'flipping twaddle' ? a plus or a minus? |
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| . Surgeon's musical performance near mountain |
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| + or -, in math |
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| User |
Universal |
03 Nov 2017 |
| Say, Bocelli's concerts on road out of Uruguay? He brings people together |
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| Old phone company worker |
Universal |
04 Sep 2017 |
| Mechanic over each area covering rising rust |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Jul 2017 |
| Switchboard worker |
Premier Sunday |
09 Apr 2017 |
| Machinist -- or surgeon? |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Feb 2017 |
| Old phone company worker |
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| User |
|
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| A report doctored in support of old surgeon, perhaps? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
29 Jun 2016 |
| Cook, poor, collects darnel sent up by the wheeler dealer |
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| Symbol in mathematics, one possibly connecting a number |
|
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| Manipulator |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Mar 2016 |
| Public speaker going around the gym with a technician |
|
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| Machine worker |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Dec 2015 |
| Poor rate fixed for handler |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Dec 2015 |
| Switchboard worker |
USA Today |
16 Nov 2015 |
| Machiavellian speaker keeps empty promise |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Oct 2015 |
| Wheeler-dealer |
Newsday |
18 Sep 2015 |
| Wheeler-dealer |
New York Times |
18 Sep 2015 |
| A bit of a hustler with Carmen on The Hill |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Sep 2015 |
| Company manager presents Tosca, perhaps, to queen |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Jul 2015 |
| I connect, - perhaps |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Jun 2015 |
| Worker 'standing by' |
Premier Sunday |
29 Mar 2015 |
| Switchboard worker |
|
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| Wheeler-dealer |
|
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| Worker 'standing by' |
|
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| One whose working days are numbered? |
|
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| Numbers person? |
|
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| See 37-Down |
|
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| Person who's a zero? |
|
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| Zero personality? |
|
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| Wheeler-dealer |
|
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| AT&T employee |
|
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| Connector? |
|
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| Switchboard employee |
|
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| Switchboard worker |
|
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| Switchboard overseer |
|
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| Numbers person? |
|
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| Wheeler-dealer |
|
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| 0, phonewise |
|
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| Switchboard overseer |
|
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| One whose working days are numbered |
|
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| Number finder |
|
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| Phone company employee |
|
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| Directory Assistance person |
|
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| Lily Tomlin's job as Ernestine |
|
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| Ernestine, in a Lily Tomlin skit |
|
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| Switchboard worker |
|
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| Lily Tomlin's Ernestine, for one |
|
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| He's disconnected? |
|
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| Smoothie |
|
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| Person using drill interrupts speaker |
|
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| She runs |
|
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| 1972 Jim Croce song |
|
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| Numbers person |
|
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| "Smooth __" (Sade song) |
|
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| Numbers person? |
|
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| Smooth worker |
|
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| O, on a telephone |
|
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| Tomlin's Ernestine |
|
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| Tomlin as Ernestine |
|
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| Mountebank |
|
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| A ham is one |
|
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| Part of B.T.O. |
|
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| Lily Tomlin role in "Laugh-In" |
|
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| Wheeler-dealer |
|
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| "Smooth __" (Sade) |
|
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| Person at the controls |
|
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| Someone to dial |
|
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| Responder to O on the dial |
|
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| Shady business man |
|
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| Garment worker. |
|
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| Skilled worker. |
|
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| I. L. G. W. U. member. |
|
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| Girl once called "central." |
|
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| Machine worker. |
|
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| Agent. |
|
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| Coal-mine boss. |
|
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| Sprint figure? |
|
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| Worker. |
|
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| Owner or manager of a mine, factory, etc. |
|
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| Manager. |
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