Drug substitute in location: Bilbao's outskirts (7) |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Aug 2025 |
Imitation medicine |
Puzzler Backwords |
16 Aug 2025 |
Dummy pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Jul 2025 |
Identify personal pong this won't cure? |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Jul 2025 |
Kind of medication put on brow occasionally |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Jul 2025 |
Replace bottle holding inactive medication (7) |
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A pill or medicine given more for psychological benefit than medical effect (7) |
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British alternative rock band formed in 1994 by Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal (7) |
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Spot bachelor getting ordinary fake medicine (7) |
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Dummy pill (7) |
Mirror Classic |
06 Jun 2025 |
What has nothing to do during a medical trial? |
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Bad smell after spot medication, possibly |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Apr 2025 |
Dummy pill |
Mirror Tea Time |
17 Apr 2025 |
Psychologically effective drug (7) |
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Fake tablet (7) |
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Remember most of boy's ineffective medication (7) |
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Rank smell, maybe snake-oil |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Apr 2025 |
Replace bottle containing dummy drug (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
31 Mar 2025 |
Dummy pill (7) |
Puzzler |
29 Mar 2025 |
Imitation medicine |
Puzzler Backwords |
19 Mar 2025 |
Put smell into pretend medicine (7) |
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Inert pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Mar 2025 |
Dummy drug to identify personal pong |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Mar 2025 |
Drug substitute, hollowed-out pill, expert brought over initially |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
11 Feb 2025 |
Put boron round - it doesn't do anything (7) |
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Inactive substance given to patient (7) |
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Medicine with no effect (7) |
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Home boy nearly finished medication with no active ingredients (7) |
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Location with unpleasant smell: its effect is psychological (7) |
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What's given to the control group in a medical trial |
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Component of many a trial |
New York Times |
10 Jan 2025 |
This has no medical benefit but still makes people feel better (7) |
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Inactive medical preparation (7) |
Puzzler |
22 Dec 2024 |
Centre to replace bogus inactive pill (7) |
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I shall please Latin with a pretend drug (7) |
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Locate smell as control in medical testing (7) |
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Medicine of therapeutic effect (7) |
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Inert pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Oct 2024 |
Drug without effect to fix personal pong |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Oct 2024 |
Inactive medicine given as gratification rather than as a curative (7) |
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Physically inert drug (7) |
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Put what your best friend won't talk about on inactive medicinal substance (7) |
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Quietly mix 40% booze as medicine (7) |
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Dummy drug (7) |
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UK firm accepts American honour for uplifting medicine? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Oct 2024 |
In marketplace, bought sugar pill (7) |
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Fake pill |
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Drug without effect to fix personal pong |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Sep 2024 |
Dummy pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Sep 2024 |
Cop able to produce sugar pill (7) |
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Position Ms Derek for bogus drug (7) |
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Inert pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Sep 2024 |
Drug substitute in location: Bilbao's outskirts |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Sep 2024 |
Put cow in Ireland on a substance that has no therapeutic effect |
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Spot short lad getting drug (7) |
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Dummy pill |
Mirror Classic |
24 Aug 2024 |
Put old boy back with late vespers (7) |
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Put Ms Derek on a hypochondriac's medication (7) |
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Imitation medicine |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Jul 2024 |
Alternative-rock band formed in 1994 and fronted by Brian Molko (7) |
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Medicine prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient |
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Inactive medicine used as a control (7) |
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Identify by smell part of a clinical trial (7) |
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It should have no effect (ABLE COP anagram) (7) |
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Locate unpleasant smell; but this won't cure it |
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UK rock band identified with person's missing daughters |
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Site old boy set up, producing psychological medicine |
The Times Cryptic |
13 May 2024 |
Ineffective medicine's rank smell |
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Drug which has no effect (7) |
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Dummy drug containing no active ingredient |
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Cable thrown into river with fake medicine (7) |
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Psychologically benefiting medicine |
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Dummy pill put with personal problem (7) |
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Sham treatment (7) |
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Fake doctor passes out? Cop able to revive (7) |
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So-called medicine gives room unpleasant smell (7) |
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Lay brother's not right for late vespers? (7) |
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Put a former pupil back with an inactive substance (7) |
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Treatment which won't really help identify personal problem |
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Drug with no effect (7) |
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Identify personal pong this won't cure? |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Feb 2024 |
Dummy pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Feb 2024 |
Dummy medicine (7) |
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Location upset former schoolfellow? It'll have no effect on me (7) |
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Imitation drug (7) |
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Put personal smells into deceptive treatment (7) |
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A position for the old boy just to humour him? (7) |
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A medicine which may benefit a patient psychologically (7) |
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AKA Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal (7) |
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Medicine which has no physiological effect |
The Guardian Quick |
12 Sep 2023 |
Inactive pill, maybe |
New York Times |
05 Sep 2023 |
Deliberately inactive drug |
The Times Concise |
01 Sep 2023 |
Sugar pill |
Family Time |
02 Jul 2023 |
Control group's treatment |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Feb 2023 |
Lead boxes contaminate oxygen, substance used in clinical trials |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Feb 2023 |
Location with nasty smell that doesn't affect anybody? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Aug 2022 |
Medicine for the mind to settle personal problem |
The Guardian Cryptic |
26 May 2022 |
Medicine for the mind to settle personal problem |
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Psychological relief to find employment for child taking year off |
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Opponent originally chasing tie in lead — which has no real effect |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Mar 2022 |
Pill in a clinical trial |
USA Today |
16 Jan 2022 |
Expert supporting Poland with old bishop returning to get medication |
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Stink after job provides ineffective remedy |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 Oct 2021 |
Prole catching a cold is given old, useless medicine |
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Drug substitute in location – Bilbao's outskirts |
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Identify personal problem offering hopeful treatment |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Jul 2021 |
Controlling treatment of Spike Bishop in Post Office |
Irish Times Crosaire |
03 Jul 2021 |
Remember this smell? It has no real effect |
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'Medicine' that doesn't actually contain medicine |
New York Times |
10 May 2021 |
Inert control in drug tests |
The Times Concise |
08 May 2021 |
Vesper at venue with odd book |
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Dummy put on crate, briefly |
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Vaccine trial component |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Mar 2021 |
Pill in experimental studies |
New York Times |
09 Mar 2021 |
What could have an unexpectedly beneficial effect? |
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Identify personal pong this won't cure? |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Feb 2021 |
Dummy pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Feb 2021 |
Sham medicine put old boy back |
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Dummy pill |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Oct 2020 |
Inactive medicine |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Sep 2020 |
Able cop? (anag) |
The Guardian Speedy |
30 Aug 2020 |
... and bring on singer Diddley instead? |
Universal |
24 Jun 2020 |
16 Put bishop on ordinary medicine that is innocuous |
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It's not designed to cure home with unpleasant smell |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 May 2020 |
Inert medication that may have an effect |
Family Time |
10 May 2020 |
Control group handout, maybe |
Wall Street Journal |
09 May 2020 |
Sugar pill, e.g |
USA Today |
15 Apr 2020 |
Identify bad smell in snake oil |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Mar 2020 |
Inert drug |
The Times Concise |
15 Mar 2020 |
Recognise personal smell, something that may have an effect in itself |
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Control drug |
The Times Concise |
08 Feb 2020 |
Treatment that shouldn't have an effect |
Universal |
04 Sep 2019 |
Dummy drug to identify personal pong |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Aug 2019 |
Inert pill |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Aug 2019 |
Pretend drug put down bog, in the main |
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Calming measure |
The Times Concise |
31 Jul 2019 |
Sham dose left expert in lead with zero |
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Control, maybe |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jul 2019 |
Drug without effect to fix personal pong |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Jul 2019 |
Controlling treatment of Spike Bishop in Post Office |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Jun 2019 |
Medicine that's not |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Jun 2019 |
Set volume, not even having soothing effect |
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Control, maybe |
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Treatment that shouldn't have an effect |
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"Medicine" used in tests |
Universal |
22 Dec 2018 |
Fake med |
Universal |
16 Dec 2018 |
Put old boy on back — it does nothing to cure him |
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Innocuous medication put down next to retired old boy |
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Spot a personal problem that makes you feel better in your head |
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. Spurious drug — keep 50% in reserve |
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Lay brother having run away in evening 19dn |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Jun 2018 |
A pharmacologically inactive drug |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
20 May 2018 |
Measure purely to calm or humour another |
The Times Concise |
17 May 2018 |
Inert medication |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Mar 2018 |
It won't actually cure rank odour |
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Locate branch office – it does nothing! |
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Drug ruined able cop |
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Control in a clinical study |
Premier Sunday |
07 Jan 2018 |
Fake med |
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"Medicine" used in tests |
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Inactive medicine |
The Times Concise |
27 Dec 2017 |
Ineffectual treatment of rank bad smell |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Dec 2017 |
Identify smell as something with no real effect |
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Location upset old boy – it's of no medical benefit |
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It offers mental relief from personal problem after lay |
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One born into Middle East group gets sham therapy |
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Nobody in the centre tracks situation to find fake medicine |
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Doctor under pressure to withdraw notice for dummy medicine |
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Fake medicine |
Universal |
28 Feb 2017 |
Fake medicine |
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Sugar pill |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Aug 2016 |
Job for old pupil returning as pacifier |
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Identify stench that's part of drug trial? |
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Plant with unpleasant odour produces fake medicine |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Mar 2016 |
Medically ineffectual treatment |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jan 2016 |
Replace bottle containing dummy drug |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Jan 2016 |
Medically ineffectual treatment |
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In lead, fifty-one to nil? It has no effect |
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Spoof medicine |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Aug 2015 |
Identify nasty smell in fake medicine |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 May 2015 |
Inactive drug |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Apr 2015 |
Identify unpleasant smell -- but this won't cure anything |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Mar 2015 |
Control-group handout |
Universal |
28 Feb 2015 |
Learner in step with old student recalled part of experiment |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Feb 2015 |
Ineffective treatment of Post Office landing Cable in a mess |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Jan 2015 |
Control-group handout |
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Make-believe effect, unreal? |
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Medicine‘s rank stink |
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Clinical-trial staple |
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Control group handout |
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Medical test control substance |
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Medicine-free medicine |
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It should have no effect |
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Means of rigorous control |
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Drug trial staple |
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Pill with no intended effect |
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Phony medicine |
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Sugar pill |
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Part of many a drug test |
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Sugar pill, say |
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Sugar pill, say |
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Clinical-trial need |
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Controversial testing component |
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Controversial testing component |
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It works as long as you don't know it shouldn't |
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Clinical trial offering, perhaps |
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Test control |
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Control group handout |
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Sugar pill |
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Control-group dose |
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Control group's pill |
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Part of many a test |
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It might have an effect |
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Medical test control substance |
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Control substance |
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Control substance |
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Sugar pill |
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Clinical trial offering, perhaps |
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Part of a test, maybe |
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Pill for a pill? |
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A person may be taken in by taking it |
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Faux medicine |
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Innocuous medication |
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Phony medicine |
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Medicine-free medicine |
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Inert medicament |
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Pill for hypochondriacs |
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Medicament sans medicine. |
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Salk control factor. |
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