| One plays pibroch's opening in support |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Mar 2026 |
| Smoker quietly visiting attraction in Southend (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Mar 2026 |
| Second part of a 57 Across |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
03 Feb 2026 |
| Kilted musician |
Newsday |
25 Jan 2026 |
| Billie -, singer-actress who played Rose Tyler in BBC TV series Doctor Who (5) |
Mirror Quiz |
06 Jan 2026 |
| "Imagine Me & You" star Perabo |
USA Today |
22 Nov 2025 |
| Musician played quietly in supporting part |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Nov 2025 |
| Musician to just beat hesitation (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
21 Oct 2025 |
| Pan, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Oct 2025 |
| "The Pied ___ of Hamelin" |
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| Before international, pressure for each player |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Jul 2025 |
| Musician present at many Scottish events (5) |
Puzzler |
19 Jul 2025 |
| ___ Perabo, US actress (5) |
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| Billie ___, actress who returned to Doctor Who in 2025 (5) |
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| Instrumentalist having a smoke on the side (5) |
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| Legendary "Pied" musician |
Newsday |
02 Jul 2025 |
| Chapman, Taylor Schilling's character in Orange Is the New Black (5) |
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| Musician Philip seen with his missus? |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Jun 2025 |
| Musician on the p-pier, playing (5) |
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| Does he blow up he can't dig up (5) |
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| One who plays a wind instrument (5) |
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| Actor Billie - one who pays this person calls the tune (5) |
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| Man with a bag of notes? (5) |
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| Billie _, played call girl Belle de Jour on ITV (5) |
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| Pan, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
20 May 2025 |
| He plays for Philip and the Queen (5) |
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| Day-ticket lake at Partridge Fisheries; type of gurnard (5) |
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| John -. British artist best known for his series of watercolours of Windsor Castle. etc. (5) |
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| A musician, the cockney daily said (5) |
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| Player who could give strippers new heart |
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| He plays a character in Great Expectations with hesitation (5) |
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| Source of funds may determine what this musician plays |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
18 Apr 2025 |
| "The Pied ___ of Hamelin" |
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| Good to meet a musician (5) |
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| Puffy-cheeked musician? (5) |
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| Musician narrowly beat queen |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
13 Mar 2025 |
| Musician to just beat hesitation (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
08 Mar 2025 |
| Actress ___ Laurie |
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| Scottish musician for Doctor Who's Billie (5) |
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| German legend: The Pied - of Hamelin |
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| He may play for scotland (5) |
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| Didn't he give a blow for his son Tom? (5) |
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| Player paid for control (5) |
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| He plays at the epicentre as a PR? |
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| Instrument player, musician (5) |
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| Player giving royalty the pip (5) |
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| Billie ___, Secret Diary of a Call Girl star (5) |
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| Peter, the musician? (5) |
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| Musician who might wear a kilt |
Commuter |
07 Dec 2024 |
| The Pied ___ of Hamelin, story (5) |
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| She may play Scotland the Brave quietly in the middle of the pier (5) |
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| Musician present at many Scottish events (5) |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Bagpipes player (5) |
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| "The Pied ___ of Hamelin" |
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| Did he not give a blow for his son Tom? (5) |
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| The man to play a Dickensian character with hesitation? (5) |
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| He'll play the piano when I get through with it (5) |
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| It's constant for each musician |
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| A musician quietly engaged in seaside entertainment place (5) |
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| "Pied" musician of lore |
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| Billie ___, singer and actress who played Rose Tyler in the TV series Doctor Who |
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| Paid musician with a calling? (5) |
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| Pan, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Played Rose in Doctor Who (Billie ___--) |
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| Hamelin musician |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Sep 2024 |
| Player with a high-pitched voice? (5) |
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| Hamelin's Pied - |
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| Fabled musician of Hamelin? |
Mirror Quick |
12 Aug 2024 |
| Smoker right to be musician |
Mirror Cryptic |
12 Aug 2024 |
| Player of bagpipes (5) |
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| Pied ___ |
Universal |
09 Aug 2024 |
| One of 11 in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" |
New York Times |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Pied guy |
Family Time |
07 Jul 2024 |
| Billie ____, Scoop actress |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
06 Jul 2024 |
| A Grimm fairytale 'Pied ..... of Hamelin' (5) |
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| Stout support surrounding soft instrumentalist (5) |
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| Oscar-winning Pixar short |
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| Musician has piano in the jetty (5) |
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| Musician initially performing in support |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
29 Jun 2024 |
| Metaphorical recipient of payment |
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| His performance may set people reeling (5) |
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| Pay the - |
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| Proverbial payee |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2024 |
| Pan, say? (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
17 Jun 2024 |
| A good salesman, turned musician (5) |
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| A paid player (5) |
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| Paid musician? (5) |
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| Scottish band musician (5) |
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| Player support overcomes pressure (5) |
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| The Pied ___ of Hamelin, the main character in a tale of a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away |
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| Instrumentalist paid by the tune-caller (5) |
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| Keith ..... , Warwickshire wicketkeeper in their 1994 treble-winning season (5) |
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| Yet it is not always played by the woodwinds (5,5) |
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| He is paid to play what is called (5) |
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| Pied ___ |
Universal |
13 May 2024 |
| Having great expectations, he will hesitate before becoming a musician |
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| As a musician, a good cake decorator? (5) |
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| His performance may send people reeling (5) |
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| Scottish musician, maybe |
Universal |
03 Apr 2024 |
| Pied - of Hamelin |
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| Pied ___, rat exterminator (5) |
Puzzler |
23 Mar 2024 |
| Pied _ rat exterminator (5) |
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| Billie ___, actor who portrayed Rose Tyler in Doctor Who (5) |
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| Musician is lead part in seaside attraction (5) |
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| Tongue-twister, "Peter ... picked a peck of pickled pepper" |
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| One playing the piano in support? (5) |
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| Pay the ____ |
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| His blows are noted (5) |
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| Musician to just beat hesitation (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
29 Jan 2024 |
| Laurie of "Twin Peaks" |
LA Times Daily |
17 Jan 2024 |
| Hamelin musician |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Traditional musician (5) |
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| A baby pigeon; a broken-winded wheezing horse; a decoy dog; genus of "poivre"; or, a musette player (5) |
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| Hamelin hire |
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| Billie _, I Hate Suzie actress (5) |
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| Genus of black pepper and cubeb - after 'Maris'? (5) |
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| Wind instrument player |
The Times Concise |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Peter of tongue twisters |
Newsday |
19 Jan 2023 |
| Certain itinerant musician |
New York Times |
18 Jan 2023 |
| "Pied ___ of Hamelin" |
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| Porcine plunderer's pop |
Newsday |
14 Jan 2023 |
| Wind instrument player |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Jan 2023 |
| Burns night musician |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Dec 2022 |
| Peter who picked a peck of pickled peppers |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Nov 2022 |
| Pied ___ |
Universal |
07 Nov 2022 |
| Musician's piano brought into wharf |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Oct 2022 |
| Peter, the pickled-pepper picker |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jun 2022 |
| Spit it out about returning minstrel |
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| Pan, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
03 May 2022 |
| Musician to do a bit better than Queen |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Mar 2022 |
| Flute player |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Mar 2022 |
| The Pied ___ |
Family Time |
24 Jan 2022 |
| "Peter ___ picked a peck of pickled peppers..." |
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| One of 11 in a Christmas song |
Premier Sunday |
19 Sep 2021 |
| Hamelin's rat remover |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Folklore's Pied ___ of Hamelin |
|
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| Half a pill for every player |
|
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| Spot the Queen band member, perhaps |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Jul 2021 |
| Support holding piano for this player |
|
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| "The Pied ___ of Hamelin" |
|
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| "Pied" musician of legend |
Universal |
01 Apr 2021 |
| Pan, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Feb 2021 |
| "Pied ___ of Hamelin" |
|
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| Decorator working in the bakery as a musician |
|
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| The one who must be paid for getting Penny into the dock |
|
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| 'Pied' folklore guy |
|
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| "Pied" folklore guy |
LA Times Daily |
17 Nov 2020 |
| Just defeat queen's musician |
|
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| Certain Scottish musician |
Universal |
11 Mar 2020 |
| Musician from Portugal appearing in seaside venue |
|
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| Luring musician of lore |
|
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| One of the musicians on the 11th day of Christmas |
|
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| Musician and cake decorator? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Nov 2019 |
| One of 11 in a Christmas carol |
New York Times |
27 Oct 2019 |
| One of 11 in a Christmas carol |
|
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| Pied ___ |
Universal |
19 Oct 2019 |
| Pied __ (legendary rat remover) |
Newsday |
23 Sep 2019 |
| Proverbial payee |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2019 |
| Young pigeon, one associated with Dagenham |
|
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| Pan, for one |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Aug 2019 |
| Pied ___ of Hamelin |
|
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| Pan, for one |
|
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| Pied ___ |
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| --- |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2018 |
| --- |
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| Musician |
The Times Concise |
29 Oct 2018 |
| Musician needing support to carry piano |
|
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| "Dance to the ___", memoir by dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille |
|
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| 'Pied' musician of legend |
USA Today |
05 Sep 2018 |
| Pay the ___ (bear the consequences) |
|
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| Kilted musician |
USA Today |
02 Aug 2018 |
| Person to be paid |
|
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| Pied ___ ('Silicon Valley' company) |
|
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| Hero from Hamelin |
Newsday |
10 May 2018 |
| Musician with piano appearing in seaside attraction |
|
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| Pan, in myth |
New York Times |
17 Apr 2018 |
| Consequently, he will have to pay parking in middle of fishing spot |
|
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| "Pied" musician of legend |
|
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| Pan, in myth |
|
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| --- |
|
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| Kilted musician |
|
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| Military musician |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Dec 2017 |
| Musician to just beat hesitation |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Dec 2017 |
| Just beat monarch's 17 maker |
|
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| Many a March 17 marcher |
USA Today |
21 Nov 2017 |
| Pan, e.g |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Sep 2017 |
| Musician is quiet in supporting part |
|
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| Musician‘s support includes piano |
|
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| Pied __ (legendary rat catcher) |
Newsday |
27 Feb 2017 |
| Certain highlands musician |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jan 2017 |
| Many a March 17 marcher |
|
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| Certain highlands musician |
|
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| 1p + 1p? Er … |
|
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| One of a carol's 11 |
Newsday |
25 Dec 2016 |
| Man famously followed by rats |
Universal |
13 Dec 2016 |
| Hamelin musician |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Dec 2016 |
| One playing wind instrument daily in East End being heard? |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Oct 2016 |
| Pickled pepper picker Peter |
|
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| Musician is quiet in supporting part |
|
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| "The 12 Days of Christmas" musician |
Universal |
02 Jul 2016 |
| 20 Across VIP |
Newsday |
03 Jun 2016 |
| Upright piano fit inside for musician |
|
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| March 17 musician |
USA Today |
21 Apr 2016 |
| Musical blower |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Apr 2016 |
| "The 12 Days of Christmas" musician |
|
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| Piano put in middle of jetty for musician |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Dec 2015 |
| Peter the pepper picker |
Newsday |
08 Dec 2015 |
| Kilted musician |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Nov 2015 |
| East-End trendy stops for each bird |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Aug 2015 |
| Hamelin hero |
Newsday |
02 Aug 2015 |
| Artist known for his stained glass in Coventry Cathedral, d. 1992 |
The Guardian Quick |
28 Feb 2015 |
| Pan, e.g. |
|
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| Peter the pepper picker |
|
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| Hamelin's rat catcher, for one |
|
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| Hamelin hero |
|
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| Kilted musician |
|
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| He was pied in Hamelin |
|
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| Famous Peter |
|
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| One to be paid |
|
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| Pepper picker |
|
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| Peter, the pickled-pepper picker |
|
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| Flutist, e.g. |
|
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| Pied -- |
|
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| Pink Floyd "The ___ at the Gates of Dawn" |
|
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| Was at Floyd's "Gates of Dawn" |
|
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| Parade tootler |
|
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| Peter in a tongue twister |
|
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| One to be paid |
|
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| Proverbial payee |
|
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| Big name in general aviation |
|
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| Proverbial payee |
|
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| Pepper picker |
|
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| Hamelin's flutist |
|
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| Peck of pickled peppers picker Peter |
|
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| Peter the pepper picker |
|
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| Tootler |
|
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| Scottish musician |
|
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| Kilted musician |
|
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| Eleventh-day musician |
|
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| Highland musician |
|
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| Flute player |
|
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| Hamelin musician |
|
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| Kilted musician |
|
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| 'Pied' musician |
|
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| Someone to pay? |
|
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| Someone to pay? |
|
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| Pay the ___ (bear the consequences) |
|
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| Proverbial payee |
|
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| Hamelin musician |
|
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| Tongue-twisting Peter |
|
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| Pickled-pepper picker |
|
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| March 17th musician |
|
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| March 17 marcher |
|
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| Hamelin's deratter |
|
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| Popular airplane maker |
|
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| "Twelve Days of Christmas" figure |
|
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| Pied one, of rhyme |
|
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| Carol musician |
|
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| Tom's dad, in the rhyme |
|
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| Carol musician |
|
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| Tom's father, in verse |
|
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| Scottish musician |
|
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| Hamelin musician |
|
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| Actress Laurie |
|
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| Hamelin musician |
|
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| Kilted musician |
|
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| Pickled-pepper picker |
|
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| March 17 musician |
|
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| He plays the tune |
|
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| Hamelin hero |
|
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| "The Twelve Days of Christmas" musician |
|
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| Flutist |
|
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| Bag man? |
|
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| Tom's father |
|
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| He was pied in Hamelin |
|
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| Pan, e.g. |
|
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| Tom's dad, in the rhyme |
|
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| Bagman? |
|
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| St. Patrick's Day musician |
|
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| Flutist |
|
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| Hamelin helper |
|
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| Flute player |
|
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| Hamelin's tempter |
|
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| He sometimes holds the bag |
|
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| Thieving Tom's father |
|
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| Plumber? |
|
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| Pan was one |
|
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| Dundee musician |
|
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| Hamelin's music man |
|
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| Hamelin figure |
|
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| Pan, e.g. |
|
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| A famous picker |
|
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| Hamelin's hero |
|
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| Player of pibrochs |
|
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| One to pay |
|
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| Pepper picker |
|
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| Tune-caller's payee |
|
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| Tom's father |
|
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| Hamlin figure |
|
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| Someone to pay |
|
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| Pay the ___ |
|
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| See 34 Across |
|
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| He has to be paid. |
|
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| Pickled-pepper picker. |
|
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| Musician. |
|
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| The dancer pays him. |
|
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| Famous Peter. |
|
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| Man with a pibroch. |
|
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| Musician of a sort. |
|
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| Player of a pibroch. |
|
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| A young pigeon. |
|
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| Young pigeon. |
|
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| Father of pig-stealer. |
|
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| Man to be paid |
|
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| Pibroch player. |
|
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| Collector for those who dance. |
|
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| Musician of sorts. |
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