| Takes advantage of sailors in steamship |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Aug 2025 |
| *Tiny metal fasteners you might find loose and rolling in a junk drawer |
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| Threaded fasteners |
Commuter |
09 Aug 2025 |
| They have a driver to drive them home (6) |
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| Broken-winded horses that are driven into the wood (6) |
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| Metal fasteners employed by team inside ship |
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| Nail alternatives |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Hardware store items |
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| They are used for securing a body of sailors in the ship (6) |
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| Bait ___, threaded alternative to spikes (6) |
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| Propellers supplied by the hands in a vessel (6) |
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| How one practises extortion on prison warders (6) |
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| It's the men aboard ship that hold things together (6) |
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| Defrauds prison officers |
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| Jailers' salaries (6) |
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| Team bathed in success after clearing out cheats |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Nov 2024 |
| Guards the ship and the sailors in it (6) |
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| Prison warders (coll.) (6) |
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| *Tiny metal fasteners you might find loose and rolling in a junk drawer |
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| Tightens up on salaries (6) |
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| Turns the propellers (6) |
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| Spiral nails |
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| Cheats prison wardens (6) |
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| Threaded fasteners |
Commuter |
30 Jul 2024 |
| Those manning boat in a steamship were warders (6) |
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| Grooved nails and colloquial prison officers |
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| Do they hold the prison service together? |
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| Drivers force them in |
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| Threaded nails |
Irish Times Simplex |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Puts pressure on the men who sail in a ship |
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| Tightens up on prison staff |
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| A driver will tighten these propellers (6) |
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| Fasteners that hex keys may tighten |
USA Today |
19 Feb 2024 |
| Items in a hardware store bin |
New York Times |
28 Jan 2024 |
| They need a driver to drive them home (6) |
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| Staff in ship that has propellors (6) |
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| Works in company on board ship (6) |
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| Spiral wood fasteners |
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| Twists southern people working aircraft or ships (6) |
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| Woodworker's threaded fasteners that are alternatives to nails |
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| Twisty hardware items |
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| Warders' wages small |
The Guardian Cryptic |
05 Jun 2023 |
| Threaded fasteners |
LA Times Daily |
07 May 2023 |
| Fasteners with Phillips or Torx heads |
Universal |
04 Jan 2023 |
| Threaded fasteners |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Dec 2022 |
| They may have Phillips heads |
Universal |
01 Nov 2022 |
| Hardware bits that may have Phillips heads |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2022 |
| Grooved nails |
Irish Times Simplex |
29 Mar 2022 |
| Woodworker's fasteners |
Universal |
11 Feb 2022 |
| Barman produces beers with no head for a number of twists |
Irish Times Crosaire |
10 Feb 2022 |
| Second small squad held by guards |
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| Threaded fasteners |
Irish Times Simplex |
26 Jan 2022 |
| Grooved nails |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Sep 2021 |
| Second team's inside men in charge |
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| Prison guards work party on board |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Apr 2021 |
| Grooved nails |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Feb 2021 |
| Threaded fasteners |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Feb 2021 |
| People who work in prison may be cheats |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 May 2020 |
| Cheats prison guards |
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| Some propellers |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Apr 2020 |
| Twisty hardware items |
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| Hinge fasteners |
USA Today |
25 Nov 2019 |
| Hardware store collection |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Oct 2019 |
| Prison officers, staff on board ship |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Cheats -- group of e.g. pirates aboard ship |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Apr 2019 |
| Parts of many DIY kits |
The Washington Post Sunday |
21 Apr 2019 |
| Cons -- and those who guard them |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Mar 2019 |
| Hardware store collection |
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| Barman produces beers with no head for a number of twists |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Oct 2018 |
| Those involved in a row in boat are usually twisted in tight spaces and won't be easily dislodged |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Sep 2018 |
| Winds driving sailors into ship |
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| Puts local pressure on sailors in boat |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Mar 2017 |
| Pressure, so to speak |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2016 |
| Woodworker's fasteners |
Newsday |
23 May 2016 |
| Hinge fasteners |
Universal |
29 Mar 2016 |
| Prisoner guards, colloquially |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Mar 2016 |
| Pressure, so to speak |
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| Prison officers detaining sailors in ship |
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| Prison guards comprised of small, organised gangs of men |
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| Threaded nails |
USA Today |
11 Feb 2015 |
| Relatives of bolts |
LA Times Daily |
08 Feb 2015 |
| Relatives of bolts |
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| Threaded nails |
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| Things driven on construction sites |
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| Assembly needs, frequently |
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| Guards in a slammer |
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| Beds, less politely |
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| Pressure, metaphorically |
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| Hardware store boxful |
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| They have threads and heads |
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| Hardware store binful |
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| Hardware store boxful |
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| Hardware buys |
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| Twisty items |
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| Pressure, metaphorically |
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| Physical coercion |
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| Messes (up) |
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| Messes (up) |
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| Hoosegow guards |
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| Twists to tighten |
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| Threaded fasteners |
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| Threaded fasteners |
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| Calaboose guards |
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| Threaded fasteners |
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| Prison guards, slangily |
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| Threaded fasteners |
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| Twisty items |
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| They have threads and heads |
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| Uses a Phillips driver |
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| Carpenter's supplies |
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| Fasteners |
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| Hardware items |
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| Fasteners |
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| Guards in a slammer |
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| Propellers on ships |
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| Skinflints. |
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| Propellers. |
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| Contorts. |
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| Ship's propellers. |
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| Hardware store binful |
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