| Copper visits goners randomly to beg and borrow |
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| Sponge, borrow (8) |
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| Sponge transformed rugs once |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Surgeon worried about Charlie's bum |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Nov 2022 |
| Beg |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Nov 2022 |
| Forage for food, say |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Jul 2022 |
| Surgeon's worried, squeezing opening of cut with sponge |
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| Worried surgeon clasping cold sponge |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Dec 2021 |
| Plastic surgeon injected with cold sponge |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Nov 2021 |
| Sponge divers source shell from galleon |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Jul 2021 |
| Surgeon upset about cold sponge |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Mar 2021 |
| Cadge |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Mar 2021 |
| Barman has endless supply of drink knocked back, for example, by mooch |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Jun 2020 |
| Beg, scream, stop halfway getting detailed enough to make up |
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| Cadge or beg |
The Times Concise |
14 Feb 2020 |
| Bum mix of Cure song |
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| Cadge |
Canadiana |
04 Nov 2019 |
| Cadge (informal) |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Sep 2019 |
| Cadge from miser, importing one in France for nothing |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Nov 2018 |
| Forage for food, say |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Oct 2018 |
| Beg barman for something to add a bit of colour to cheeks around mid-morning |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Jul 2018 |
| Beg surgeon for facelift, having caught cold |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Jul 2018 |
| Miser has to get a foreign article for nothing — what he must do? |
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| . Trained nurse, after checking temperature, got cold sponge |
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| Charlie's enthralled by surgeon wiggling bum |
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| Cadge |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Bum, of course, wobbling – no good interfering |
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| Soprano caught top of nail in make-up sponge |
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| Seek to obtain, by begging, borrowing or stealing |
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| Indian Railway division's waiting room is missing hand sponge |
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| Cadge, beg |
The Times Concise |
04 Apr 2016 |
| Beg for rugs once accommodated |
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| Nothing given away by skinflint pinching a Parisian's bum |
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| Beg barman for something to add a bit of colour to cheeks around mid morning |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Jun 2015 |
| Beg |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jun 2015 |
| Dodgy surgeon accepts cape — it's what cadgers do |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Jun 2015 |
| Go foraging |
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| Scrape together |
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| Scrape together |
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| Scrape together |
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| Dumpster-dive, say |
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| Obtain by wheedling |
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| Do some dumpster-diving |
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| Dumpster-dive |
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| Bum, as a cigarette |
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| Bum, as a cigarette |
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| Salvage |
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| Gather with difficulty |
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| Worried surgeon clasping cold sponge |
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| Finagle |
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| Pilfer or mooch |
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| Cadge; mooch |
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| Mooch. |
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| Pilfer: Slang. |
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| Cadge or sponge. |
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| Cadge. |
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