| Miss target time as eel proves slippery |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
28 Oct 2025 |
| Dream too much? |
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| Failing to start, developers lazily don't respond to alarm call? (9) |
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| Miss alarm |
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| Wake later than 3 intended (9) |
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| Fail to wake up on time |
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| Left inside, supervise quietly and miss the alarm (9) |
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| See lover out quietly then wake up late |
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| Do this too often and there's cause for alarm |
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| Remain in bed longer than anticipated (9) |
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| Do what Rip Van Winkle did (9) |
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| Slumber too long |
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| Be too long in bed (9) |
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| Get up too late (9) |
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| Malfunctioning TV: elopers' excuse for being late (9) |
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| Wake late (9) |
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| Do better than nap? |
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| Bowling spells Lee quietly has may cause him to get up late (9) |
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| Peel back covers first and take the head off them if they don't get up on time |
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| Ignore one's alarm clock |
Universal |
04 Nov 2023 |
| Fail to rise to the occasion when one should? |
The Times Cryptic |
19 May 2023 |
| Out at night, more so than usual - it's what she might do awaiting the handsome prince |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Mar 2022 |
| Stay out longer than you meant to? |
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| Misbehaving peer loves to have a lie-in |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Jan 2022 |
| Come around late and serve Pole crackers |
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| Stay out for too long? |
New York Times |
13 Nov 2021 |
| Wake up too late |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2021 |
| Out at night, more so than usual- it's what she might do awaiting the handsome prince |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Oct 2020 |
| Lee proves getting sacked is a bad way to avoid the early commute |
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| Use the top bunk to doze longer in bed? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Sep 2020 |
| Past IOM town's turning, come to later than planned |
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| Out at night, more so than usual - it's what she does not having met handsome prince yet |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 May 2020 |
| One may do this after an alarming breakdown |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Mar 2020 |
| About to observe power throttling source of liberty? Don't get aroused |
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| Get up late |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Sep 2019 |
| Take too much time out? |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Sep 2019 |
| Fail to come to? |
New York Times |
27 Apr 2019 |
| Stay out having stayed out? |
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| Fail to get up, turning huntsman's gun on duck |
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| Fail to come to? |
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| Miss alarm concerning student caught in leak |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Dec 2018 |
| Linger in bed as topless sweetheart strips, rising |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Oct 2018 |
| Broadcast Poe's gripping verse -- about fifty fail to be stirred? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Jul 2018 |
| Done with the rest? On the contrary! |
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| Finished with siesta? That really put one's mind at rest! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
14 Nov 2017 |
| Resolve broken by retrograde exercise, have a lie-in |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Aug 2017 |
| Eels prove slippery and fail to rise |
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| Belted peers love to ignore call to be roused |
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| After drunken revels, rise at last to go into work? |
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| Don't turn out for some play at Lord's, shelter by Pavilion End |
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| Miss a wake-up call |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Nov 2016 |
| Finished with siesta? It's similar to 3 down! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
02 Sep 2016 |
| Get up late to provide extra rest |
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| End of a British prime minister's retirement — make it an extended retirement |
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| Dissolute peer loves to get up late? |
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| Ignore the alarm |
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| Get a late start |
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| Ignore the alarm? |
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| Snooze too long |
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| Ignore the alarm |
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| End of quip |
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| Catch too many z's |
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| Take an extra forty winks. |
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| Emulate a 10 o'clock scholar. |
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| Fail to hear the alarm. |
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| Ignore the alarm clock. |
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