| Stillness | The Telegraph Quick | 22 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Scottish extremists call quietly for it? (7) | The Guardian Quiptic | 12 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Hush | New York Times | 10 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | "Hush" | LA Times Daily | 01 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Quiet because eating seconds of blancmange and jelly | The Times Cryptic | 17 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | See 5 Across | The Guardian Weekend | 06 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | As leaders of law enforcement go in for peace |  |  | 
          
            | Gag is overturned on man with church (7) |  |  | 
          
            | You keep it and shut up (7) |  |  | 
          
            | The ___ of the Lambs, 1991 horror film starring Jodie Foster (7) |  |  | 
          
            | "Sound of ___" (Simon and Garfunkel song) (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Stop speaking, because Roland Barthes's article is boring |  |  | 
          
            | The of the Lambs, 1991 psychological thriller film (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Mum, you keep it! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | New ITV drama starring Rose Ayling-Ellis, Code Of ___ (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Woodland god at the beginning can exist still |  |  | 
          
            | To gag |  |  | 
          
            | Foolishly license no noise (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Total quiet | Newsday | 16 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Marked by no sound |  |  | 
          
            | Still considering housing the Parisian | The Telegraph Cryptic | 08 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | License to be golden. Shh!! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Gag from comical scene comprising one line | The Telegraph Cryptic | 06 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | You didn't break it, mum (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Golden it is, voicelessness (7) |  |  | 
          
            | License to renegotiate for quietude (7) |  |  | 
          
            | One doesn't hear its presence (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Reissue License to Kill (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet as the French, boring |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound or noise (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Complete quiet | The Times Concise | 07 Dec 2024 | 
          
            | Somehow license absolute quiet |  |  | 
          
            | Peace | The Telegraph Quick | 13 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | *"Break the ___," when you finally speak up |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound(7) |  |  | 
          
            | Suffer in - - -, endure pain secretly | Mirror Tea Time | 31 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | Total lack of noise: complete - |  |  | 
          
            | Gag, as cracked by the French | The Times Cryptic | 11 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | Old silver coin by piano swapped for pound - it's supposed to be golden | The Telegraph Toughie | 02 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | Suppress the rest of Hamlet? |  |  | 
          
            | ___ Is Golden, Tremeloes song (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Peace as interrupted by the French | The Times Quick Cryptic | 14 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | Lack of sound | Commuter | 13 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | "___ Is Golden" (1967 Tremeloes song) (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Total absence of sound |  |  | 
          
            | State of being shut up? |  |  | 
          
            | "__ of the Lambs" |  |  | 
          
            | No word about license (7) |  |  | 
          
            | The French must be in because there's quiet | The Telegraph Cryptic | 11 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | License to change what's called for in court (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet interval |  |  | 
          
            | Still gutted, live in past | The Times Sunday Cryptic | 30 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Library sound quality |  |  | 
          
            | License complete quiet (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound | The Telegraph Quick | 30 May 2024 | 
          
            | How nice, Les! It's so quiet here! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | One has to make a noise to break it (7) |  |  | 
          
            | "Quiet!" | Universal | 13 May 2024 | 
          
            | Gag because the Parisian is inside (7) |  |  | 
          
            | No sound at all |  |  | 
          
            | Can it for America (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Nothing to be heard from the time the French got involved (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Muffle science by reducing 101 to 49 (7) |  |  | 
          
            | License absence of sound (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Not a sound injunction! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Lack of sound | Commuter | 09 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Suffer in - - -, endure pain secretly | Mirror Tea Time | 09 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | No sound state the rest is, Hamlet (7) |  |  | 
          
            | The peace subsequently includes the French (7) |  |  | 
          
            | License to renegotiate for peace (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Render mute (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Boundless glee inside following gag | The Times Cryptic | 22 Mar 2024 | 
          
            | But surely you've heard that it's golden? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Prevent from speaking |  |  | 
          
            | Refusal to speak since surrounding the French (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Still oddly in French church? Still! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Total absence of noise (7) |  |  | 
          
            | "In the roaring traffic boom, in the ... of my lonely room; I think of you, night and day" |  |  | 
          
            | When nothing is said about it being golden (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Suppress blasphemy perhaps outside empty little church |  |  | 
          
            | The Sound of ___, song from The Graduate (7) |  |  | 
          
            | The Sound of ___" (1964 Paul Simon song) (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Lack of noise staggered Neil in southern church (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound (7) | Puzzler | 23 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Absence of noise (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Be quiet after bringing in the Parisian (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet nieces first to leave in confusion (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet, because around the French (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Short play by Harold Pinter premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1969, directed by Peter Hall |  |  | 
          
            | Speechlessness is golden, they say (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Still seeing that entertaining lassie after vacation |  |  | 
          
            | One hears it being broken |  |  | 
          
            | Stillness | Mirror Classic | 03 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Noiselessness | The Sun Two Speed | 30 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | French article put in after secrecy | The Sun Two Speed | 30 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Subsequently, celebs heartily cracked gag? (7) |  |  | 
          
            | "Zip it!" | Newsday | 14 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Whatever you said, you broke it! (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Moment of quiet reflection is very small, and less nice when disturbed (7,7) |  |  | 
          
            | Dreadful scene surrounding Israel’s secrecy |  |  | 
          
            | Error about the French church? Saying nothing | The Times Quick Cryptic | 28 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | "Shame on him who the - breaketh/And the newborn Babe awaketh" (7) |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound | USA Today | 30 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Ideal noise level in the library |  |  | 
          
            | Gag the French coming in thereafter | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Peace and quiet | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Lack of sound (7) | Puzzler | 04 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Quiet woodland god starts to cheer everyone | The Times Cryptic | 18 Oct 2023 | 
          
            | Complete quiet | The Times Concise | 08 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Quiet | The Telegraph Quick | 17 Aug 2023 | 
          
            | Hush nieces playing round lake | The Times Cryptic | 18 Jul 2023 | 
          
            | "The ___ of the Lambs," 1991 Anthony Hopkins starrer |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet | The Telegraph Quick | 16 Mar 2023 | 
          
            | Library request | Thomas Joseph | 19 Jan 2023 | 
          
            | Lack of communication | The Guardian Quick | 14 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | Don's OK with shelter, assuming no charge for mum | The Telegraph Toughie | 09 Dec 2022 | 
          
            | After entertaining the French, not a peep | The Telegraph Cryptic | 15 Nov 2022 | 
          
            | Librarian's request | USA Today | 03 Oct 2022 | 
          
            | Absence of sound | Canadiana | 05 Sep 2022 | 
          
            | Library volume? | Wall Street Journal | 30 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Mum about 100, sort of senile! | The Telegraph Cryptic | 12 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Poles outside French island church still | The Telegraph Cryptic | 22 Jul 2022 | 
          
            | Put an end to Spooner’s freedom | The Times Cryptic | 05 Jul 2022 | 
          
            | Absence of sound | The Times Concise | 27 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | Absence of sound, as involving the French | The Times Cryptic | 13 Apr 2022 | 
          
            | Soundlessness | Newsday | 08 Apr 2022 | 
          
            | "Quiet!" | LA Times Daily | 08 Mar 2022 | 
          
            | 'Quiet!' | The Washington Post | 08 Mar 2022 | 
          
            | Be quiet because occupied by the French | The Telegraph Cryptic | 01 Sep 2021 | 
          
            | Peaceful situation for Hamlet's rest? |  |  | 
          
            | ''Be quiet!'' | Newsday | 21 Jun 2021 | 
          
            | Stunned response | Wall Street Journal | 18 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Peace in the time following admitting the French | The Times Cryptic | 19 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Peace in the time following admitting the French |  |  | 
          
            | Something considered golden is shut up |  |  | 
          
            | Hush | The Telegraph Quick | 08 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Noiselessness | The Sun Two Speed | 22 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Quiet because digesting French article | The Sun Two Speed | 22 Nov 2020 | 
          
            | Absence of sound | USA Today | 29 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | The French must be in because there's quiet | The Telegraph Cryptic | 14 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | ''Shh!'' | Newsday | 11 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Noiselessness | The Telegraph Quick | 25 Sep 2020 | 
          
            | Quietness | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Sep 2020 | 
          
            | No talking when digesting French article | The Sun Two Speed | 06 Sep 2020 | 
          
            | Library ambience | LA Times Daily | 13 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Library ambience | The Washington Post | 13 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | '___ is golden' | USA Today | 18 Jul 2020 | 
          
            | Hamlet’s final word | Wall Street Journal | 10 Jun 2020 | 
          
            | "Zip it!" | Universal | 22 May 2020 | 
          
            | It's golden, they say | USA Today | 06 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | License prepared to help mum |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound | The Times Concise | 05 Mar 2020 | 
          
            | French article put in after gag | The Sun Two Speed | 20 Feb 2020 | 
          
            | Offend Anglicans, passing round half of lewd gag |  |  | 
          
            | Censor one line in controversial scene |  |  | 
          
            | The majority of the last nine bars in Sibelius’s fifth symphony | The Times Specialist Sunday | 15 Dec 2019 | 
          
            | Librarian's directive | Eugene Sheffer | 02 Nov 2019 | 
          
            | No talking after digesting French article | The Sun Two Speed | 15 Aug 2019 | 
          
            | Peace and quiet | The Sun Two Speed | 15 Aug 2019 | 
          
            | Quiet from the time the French parted |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet | The Telegraph Quick | 26 May 2019 | 
          
            | Article from Macron put in after gag |  |  | 
          
            | Be quiet! | The Telegraph Quick | 16 Feb 2019 | 
          
            | Gag the French coming in thereafter | The Sun Two Speed | 11 Feb 2019 | 
          
            | Library request | Thomas Joseph | 03 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | French article put in after secrecy | The Sun Two Speed | 20 Nov 2018 | 
          
            | Hamlet's rest? As interrupted by the French |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet | The Guardian Speedy | 27 Oct 2018 | 
          
            | It may be broken in a library | New York Times | 29 Sep 2018 | 
          
            | Absence of sound | The Telegraph Quick | 10 Aug 2018 | 
          
            | The musical content of John Cage’s composition 4’33” | The Times Specialist Sunday | 29 Jul 2018 | 
          
            | ... following grasping half-idle mum | The Telegraph Cryptic | 02 Jun 2018 | 
          
            | Golden quality? | The Washington Post | 08 Apr 2018 | 
          
            | Golden quality? | LA Times Daily | 08 Apr 2018 | 
          
            | Put a stop to evil gripping the French church |  |  | 
          
            | "Zip it!" | USA Today | 15 Feb 2018 | 
          
            | License adjustment to bring peace | The Sun Two Speed | 08 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | Make quiet | The Sun Two Speed | 08 Jan 2018 | 
          
            | It may be broken in a library |  |  | 
          
            | Golden quality? |  |  | 
          
            | "Zip it!" |  |  | 
          
            | It's like gold -- that's what we hear? Not at all! | The Telegraph Cryptic | 31 Dec 2017 | 
          
            | Still quiet |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet because occupied by French article |  |  | 
          
            | Golden quality? | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 17 Nov 2017 | 
          
            | Gag vacuously lame, considering skirting round it? |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet, because sleep regularly has to be protected |  |  | 
          
            | Gag first couple from Lebanon, smuggled in after |  |  | 
          
            | Peace after getting round the French |  |  | 
          
            | Absence of sound | Irish Times Simplex | 29 May 2017 | 
          
            | Article from Rabelais put in after secrecy |  |  | 
          
            | Gag being about the French | The Telegraph Cryptic | 04 May 2017 | 
          
            | The French in immoral act with church saying nothing |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet -- the French must be in because ... | The Telegraph Cryptic | 11 Jan 2017 | 
          
            | Golden quality? |  |  | 
          
            | Awfully senile, being about 100 and quiet | The Telegraph Cryptic | 02 Dec 2016 | 
          
            | No talking, because digesting article abroad | The Times Cryptic | 30 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Quietness | The Telegraph Quick | 21 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | It may be demanded in court still |  |  | 
          
            | Put an end to the rest of Hamlet? | The Times Cryptic | 05 Sep 2016 | 
          
            | Still, it can't be heard, in a manner of speaking | Irish Times Crosaire | 28 May 2016 | 
          
            | 'Golden' state | The Washington Post | 26 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Quiet | Premier Sunday | 01 Nov 2015 | 
          
            | Losing heart, live in past still | The Telegraph Toughie | 24 Sep 2015 | 
          
            | Quiet nieces dancing left inside |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's exhortation | Universal | 16 Aug 2015 | 
          
            | Quiet | LA Times Daily | 16 Jul 2015 | 
          
            | Total quiet | Newsday | 12 Jul 2015 | 
          
            | Hamlet's rest, appropriately in this? | The Times Cryptic | 12 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | Quiet |  |  | 
          
            | Disc jockey's "dead air" |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's exhortation |  |  | 
          
            | It's said to be golden |  |  | 
          
            | Total quiet |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet |  |  | 
          
            | Quiet from around the end of April/4th of June |  |  | 
          
            | 'Be quiet!' |  |  | 
          
            | Secrecy because the French invaded |  |  | 
          
            | Hush |  |  | 
          
            | "Shh!" |  |  | 
          
            | Still |  |  | 
          
            | "Hush" |  |  | 
          
            | "Shh!" |  |  | 
          
            | Absolute quiet |  |  | 
          
            | To some, it's golden |  |  | 
          
            | Library directive |  |  | 
          
            | It is golden, it's said |  |  | 
          
            | Total quiet |  |  | 
          
            | Characteristic of this puzzle's circled letters, which suggest a 1991 Oscar-winning film |  |  | 
          
            | It's golden, in a 1964 Four Seasons song |  |  | 
          
            | Characteristic of this puzzle's circled letters, which suggest a 1991 Oscar-winning film |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's request |  |  | 
          
            | Lack of sound |  |  | 
          
            | "Shh!" |  |  | 
          
            | "Quiet!" |  |  | 
          
            | You can break it merely by mentioning it |  |  | 
          
            | Shout from the Wizard of Oz |  |  | 
          
            | Shut up |  |  | 
          
            | Still |  |  | 
          
            | Repress, in a way |  |  | 
          
            | Sound of one hand clapping? |  |  | 
          
            | Tongue-tie |  |  | 
          
            | It is golden, it's said |  |  | 
          
            | Sign in the library |  |  | 
          
            | Soundlessness |  |  | 
          
            | Something golden |  |  | 
          
            | Hush |  |  | 
          
            | "Be quiet!" |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's demand |  |  | 
          
            | Library's need |  |  | 
          
            | Muzzle |  |  | 
          
            | Hush |  |  | 
          
            | Court cry |  |  | 
          
            | "The most perfect expression of scorn," according to George Bernard Shaw |  |  | 
          
            | Shout by the Wizard of Oz |  |  | 
          
            | Golden thing |  |  | 
          
            | "Shhh!" |  |  | 
          
            | "The virtue of fools," to Bacon |  |  | 
          
            | "The virtue of fools," to Bacon |  |  | 
          
            | What a rest indicates |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's demand |  |  | 
          
            | It's golden |  |  | 
          
            | Golden attribute? |  |  | 
          
            | "The rest is __" |  |  | 
          
            | "The __ of the Lambs" |  |  | 
          
            | Muzzle |  |  | 
          
            | Library order |  |  | 
          
            | "Shut up!" |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's request |  |  | 
          
            | Library sign |  |  | 
          
            | Calm |  |  | 
          
            | Hush |  |  | 
          
            | Golden attribute? |  |  | 
          
            | Librarian's exhortation |  |  | 
          
            | Schoolmaster's order |  |  | 
          
            | Golden quality |  |  | 
          
            | Calm |  |  | 
          
            | Squelch |  |  | 
          
            | "Golden" quality |  |  | 
          
            | Library sign |  |  | 
          
            | Courtroom admonition |  |  | 
          
            | Sometimes it's golden |  |  | 
          
            | Golden intangible |  |  | 
          
            | "___ has no end": Thoreau |  |  | 
          
            | Golden quality |  |  | 
          
            | Proverbial consenter |  |  | 
          
            | Library injunction |  |  | 
          
            | Taciturnity |  |  | 
          
            | Golden item |  |  | 
          
            | Hush |  |  | 
          
            | Golden word |  |  | 
          
            | Supposed trademark of the majority |  |  | 
          
            | Armistice Day observance. |  |  | 
          
            | It's golden. |  |  | 
          
            | Forte of the "Dumb Wife." |  |  | 
          
            | Stillness. |  |  | 
          
            | Most perfect expression of scorn.—Shaw. |  |  | 
          
            | Hamlet's last word |  |  | 
          
            | Sign in a library. |  |  | 
          
            | Still. |  |  | 
          
            | Taciturnity. |  |  | 
          
            | "The rest is ___." |  |  | 
          
            | The golden trait. |  |  | 
          
            | "Golden" commodity. |  |  | 
          
            | Hush. |  |  | 
          
            | Library motto. |  |  | 
          
            | Library sign. |  |  | 
          
            | ___ gives consent. |  |  | 
          
            | Hamlet's last word. |  |  | 
          
            | Golden item. |  |  | 
          
            | Tacit omission. |  |  | 
          
            | Hush up. |  |  | 
          
            | Golden commodity. |  |  | 
          
            | No comment. |  |  | 
          
            | Usual sign in a public library. |  |  |