| Many characters in Slow Horses, for example |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Aug 2025 |
| Johnny English and George Smiley, e. g. |
|
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| Operatives who make hissing noises when out of food (5) |
|
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| Undercover agents |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
25 May 2025 |
| Not obviously persons of intelligence? (5) |
|
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| 3 of __, 2015 thriller starring Tom Hanks (5) |
The Guardian Weekend |
17 May 2025 |
| *Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, supposedly |
|
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| Some people investigating enemy secrets, initially (5) |
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| Covert operatives |
Newsday |
27 Apr 2025 |
| Plants, maybe |
New York Times |
18 Apr 2025 |
| Intelligence operatives |
The Times Concise |
17 Apr 2025 |
| Ben ..... , 2009 Superbike World Championship winner (5) |
|
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| Sees pessimism beginning to spread (5) |
|
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| Undercover agents |
USA Today |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Our star's movie: Bridge of - |
|
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| Le Carre characters |
Newsday |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Intel employees? |
LA Times Daily |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Secret agents |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Feb 2025 |
| James Bond, Nick Caner, Mata Hari et al.? |
|
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| Masters of disguise |
New York Times |
20 Dec 2024 |
| Stealers of state secrets |
|
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| The bookie and I have points to make about the presence of agents (5) |
|
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| Watches secretly |
Puzzler Backwords |
13 Dec 2024 |
| Sees the pessimists are 50% wrong (5) |
|
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| Agents getting food at the Saracen's Head (5) |
|
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| Intel gatherers |
|
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| Secret agents |
Newsday |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Invasive plants? |
Universal |
14 Nov 2024 |
| Plants a bug, say |
Universal |
13 Nov 2024 |
| Undercover agents |
The Telegraph Plusword |
02 Nov 2024 |
| Intelligence gatherers, potentially |
The Telegraph Plusword |
12 Oct 2024 |
| Sees the pessimist's starting to be converted (5) |
|
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| Many John le Carré characters |
New York Times |
30 Aug 2024 |
| Moles seeking intel |
USA Today |
04 Aug 2024 |
| Plants with eyes |
Newsday |
27 Jul 2024 |
| Professionals who might bug people |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Secret agents |
The Times Concise |
11 Jul 2024 |
| Secret agents (5) |
Puzzler |
30 Jun 2024 |
| Intel collectors |
Universal |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Small pastry dishes for secret agents (5) |
|
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| Southern food plants (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 May 2024 |
| "Totally ___!" (animated series) |
TV |
05 May 2024 |
| They craftily observe food put in a vessel (5) |
|
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| They craftily observe savoury food put in a vessel (5) |
|
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| Deep fakes? |
Universal |
23 Mar 2024 |
| 2006-13 South Africa and 2016-17 Montpellier Herault Number 8 (5) |
|
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| "Bridge of ___"; film for Tom Hanks |
|
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| Double agents maybe |
|
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| Espionage agents |
|
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| Fleming subjects |
LA Times Daily |
21 Feb 2024 |
| Sneaky, aren't they? (5) |
|
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| Work of 5Dn 6Dn especially sore if fiddled with (6,3,2,5) |
|
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| Undercover agents |
Commuter |
05 Jan 2024 |
| Secret traders |
New York Times |
27 Dec 2023 |
| Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable, for example |
USA Today |
11 Dec 2023 |
| Secret agents |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Secret agents |
Newsday |
30 Oct 2023 |
| Secret agents |
USA Today |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Spots |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jun 2023 |
| Moles, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
12 Apr 2023 |
| Some plants |
LA Times Daily |
16 Mar 2023 |
| Sentient plants? |
Universal |
25 Feb 2023 |
| Workers who want to go unnoticed? |
Universal |
16 Jan 2023 |
| Secret agents |
Newsday |
04 Jan 2023 |
| Secret agents |
USA Today |
09 Dec 2022 |
| Secret agents |
USA Today |
19 Nov 2022 |
| Covert agents |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Oct 2022 |
| Dead drop users |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jul 2022 |
| Covert agents |
The Washington Post |
13 Jun 2022 |
| Covert agents |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jun 2022 |
| Does some undercover work |
USA Today |
01 Jun 2022 |
| Many secret agents |
Family Time |
21 Mar 2022 |
| Secret agents |
USA Today |
01 Mar 2022 |
| Notices Christmas fare if served with mint, did you say? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
10 Feb 2022 |
| Notices Christmas fare if served with mint, did you say? |
|
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| Eavesdropping pros |
Newsday |
27 Jan 2022 |
| "Bridge of ___," Steven Spielberg-Tom Hanks' award-winning collaboration from 2015 |
|
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| Secret agents |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Dec 2021 |
| Undercover agents |
USA Today |
20 Oct 2021 |
| Sees ship carrying food |
|
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| Secret agents |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Cloak-and-dagger group |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jun 2021 |
| Seekers of intelligence |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Undercover agents |
Newsday |
22 Mar 2021 |
| Secret operatives |
|
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| Secret agents |
Newsday |
28 Dec 2020 |
| Snoops |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Dec 2020 |
| Novel by Michael Frayn |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
14 Dec 2020 |
| Some agents |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Dec 2020 |
| Characters in Lara Prescott's novel 'The Secrets We Kept' |
The Washington Post Sunday |
01 Nov 2020 |
| Espionage figures |
Universal |
17 Aug 2020 |
| Many espionage movie characters |
Family Time |
09 Aug 2020 |
| Wire service providers? |
The Washington Post Sunday |
07 Jun 2020 |
| Intel collectors |
Universal |
04 May 2020 |
| Seekers of intel |
The Washington Post |
27 Apr 2020 |
| Seekers of intel |
LA Times Daily |
27 Apr 2020 |
| *Intelligence gatherers |
USA Today |
23 Apr 2020 |
| They seek secrets |
USA Today |
07 Apr 2020 |
| Agents called Herb |
|
|
| Bond and Bourne |
LA Times Daily |
20 Mar 2020 |
| Bond and Bourne |
The Washington Post |
20 Mar 2020 |
| Moles, e.g |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Feb 2020 |
| "Bridge of ___," 2015 espionage movie which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay |
|
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| MI6 agents |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Dec 2019 |
| Secretly observes spooks |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Dec 2019 |
| Cloak-and-dagger people |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Nov 2019 |
| Seekers of intel |
USA Today |
18 Sep 2019 |
| Secret agents |
|
|
| Some Stratego pieces |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Aug 2019 |
| Is like a mole |
Premier Sunday |
14 Jul 2019 |
| Infiltrators |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jul 2019 |
| Infiltrators |
The Washington Post |
06 Jul 2019 |
| Covert agents |
LA Times Daily |
21 Apr 2019 |
| Covert agents |
The Washington Post |
21 Apr 2019 |
| Covert agents |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Apr 2019 |
| James Bond and Johnny English |
|
|
| Seekers of secrets |
USA Today |
21 Feb 2019 |
| Secret agents |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jan 2019 |
| Seekers of secrets |
|
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| Infiltrators |
|
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| Covert agents |
|
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| Seekers of intel |
|
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| Some Stratego pieces |
|
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| Secret agents |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Oct 2018 |
| Intel seekers |
USA Today |
04 Sep 2018 |
| Sees pessimists must be only fifty per cent wrong |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Aug 2018 |
| Cloak-and-dagger sorts |
USA Today |
15 Jul 2018 |
| Undercover operatives |
Newsday |
06 May 2018 |
| Bond and others |
LA Times Daily |
29 Mar 2018 |
| Bond and others |
The Washington Post |
29 Mar 2018 |
| Cloak-and-dagger sorts |
|
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| Intel seekers |
|
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| Bond and others |
|
|
| Counterintelligence targets |
LA Times Daily |
30 Nov 2017 |
| Counterintelligence targets |
The Washington Post |
30 Nov 2017 |
| Moles, perhaps |
USA Today |
14 Nov 2017 |
| John le Carré heroes |
New York Times |
26 Sep 2017 |
| Furtive sorts |
LA Times Daily |
18 Aug 2017 |
| Furtive sorts |
The Washington Post |
18 Aug 2017 |
| Le Carré characters |
Newsday |
11 Aug 2017 |
| Intelligence crew |
Newsday |
21 Jun 2017 |
| What human moles are |
Universal |
20 Feb 2017 |
| Secret agents |
The Times Concise |
05 Jan 2017 |
| Spots or moles |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Jan 2017 |
| Furtive sorts |
|
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| John le Carré heroes |
|
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| What human moles are |
|
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| Counterintelligence targets |
|
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| Moles, perhaps |
|
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| Spooks |
New York Times |
03 Dec 2016 |
| Deceptive operators |
The Washington Post |
29 Oct 2016 |
| Certain moles |
Universal |
05 Jul 2016 |
| Bond and Smart, for two |
Universal |
09 Apr 2016 |
| Human moles, e.g |
Universal |
13 Mar 2016 |
| Plants or moles |
Newsday |
14 Feb 2016 |
| Secret collectors |
New York Times |
24 Jan 2016 |
| Spooks |
|
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| Certain moles |
|
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| Secret collectors |
|
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| Secret agents |
USA Today |
14 Oct 2015 |
| CIA employees |
USA Today |
10 Sep 2015 |
| 007 and others |
New York Times |
10 Aug 2015 |
| Double agents |
USA Today |
28 May 2015 |
| M's subordinates |
USA Today |
18 Apr 2015 |
| Cloak-and-dagger types |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Mar 2015 |
| Secret seekers |
Newsday |
22 Mar 2015 |
| Le Carre characters |
Newsday |
15 Mar 2015 |
| Double agents |
|
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| CIA employees |
|
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| Secret seekers |
|
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| Le Carre characters |
|
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| Austin Powers and Johnny English |
|
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| 007 and others |
|
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| Secret agents |
|
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| M's subordinates |
|
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| Spooks |
|
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| Ones seeking intelligence |
|
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| Catches sight of |
|
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| They know things you don't think they know |
|
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| They want to gain intelligence |
|
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| Secret agents |
|
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| Mata Hari, et al. |
|
|
| Prohias's adversaries |
|
|
| "Mad" adversaries |
|
|
| They gather intelligence |
|
|
| Uses a keyhole, perhaps |
|
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| Cloak-and-dagger group |
|
|
| Bug specialists? |
|
|
| Some "Bourne" film characters |
|
|
| Bond and Bourne, for two |
|
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| Some plants |
|
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| Le Carré characters |
|
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| Some plants |
|
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| They gather intelligence |
|
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| People of intelligence? |
|
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| Secret observers |
|
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| They gather intelligence |
|
|
| Some moles |
|
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| They may work for both sides |
|
|
| Fears of some paranoiacs |
|
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| Some spooks |
|
|
| Prohias' adversaries |
|
|
| Bug specialists? |
|
|
| Perpetrators of black-bag jobs |
|
|
| Black and white Mad magazine figures |
|
|
| Agents 86 and 99, in "Get Smart" |
|
|
| Cloak-and-dagger types |
|
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| Le Carre characters |
|
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| Parts of some rings |
|
|
| Notices |
|
|
| Black-clad and white-clad Mad adversaries |
|
|
| Undercover agents |
|
|
| CIA types |
|
|
| Fleming characters |
|
|
| Undercover agents |
|
|
| Notices |
|
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| Notices |
|
|
| Catches sight of |
|
|
| Double agents |
|
|
| Many John le Carré characters |
|
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| Bond and Bourne |
|
|
| Nathan Hale and others |
|
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| Nathan Hale and others |
|
|
| Bond and Bourne |
|
|
| People who aren't what they seem |
|
|
| Some enemies of the state |
|
|
| Works in intelligence |
|
|
| Secret observers |
|
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| Spots |
|
|
| Mata Hari et al. |
|
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| Spots |
|
|
| Le Carré characters |
|
|
| Moles, for example |
|
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| Those seeking intelligence? |
|
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| Agents |
|
|
| Secretly watches |
|
|
| Secret agents |
|
|
| Moles, maybe |
|
|
| Operatives |
|
|
| This puzzle's theme involves fictional ones |
|
|
| Seekers of intelligence? |
|
|
| Intelligence operatives |
|
|
| Most "Get Smart" characters |
|
|
| Seeks secrets |
|
|
| Philby and Bond |
|
|
| Moles, maybe |
|
|
| Agents |
|
|
| Uses a tap, perhaps |
|
|
| Cloak-and-dagger types |
|
|
| U-2 fliers |
|
|
| Surreptitious types |
|
|
| Bond's cohorts |
|
|
| They may bug you |
|
|
| Sneaks peeks |
|
|
| Le Carré characters |
|
|
| They often have covers |
|
|
| Theme of this puzzle |
|
|
| M's subordinates |
|
|
| Secret agents |
|
|
| Fleming characters |
|
|
| Secret agents |
|
|
| Bond and others |
|
|
| M's subordinates |
|
|
| Spooks |
|
|
| Spots |
|
|
| Peeping Toms |
|
|
| Intelligence operatives |
|
|
| Some Ian Fleming characters |
|
|
| Ring members |
|
|
| Spooks |
|
|
| Caleb and Joshua |
|
|
| Moles |
|
|
| Those seeking intelligence? |
|
|
| Certain agents |
|
|
| Fleming characters |
|
|
| Operatives |
|
|
| 86 and 99, in "Get Smart" |
|
|
| Kim Philby and colleagues |
|
|
| CIA employees |
|
|
| Those seeking intelligence |
|
|
| Le Carre characters |
|
|
| Hale and Hari |
|
|
| Le Carre characters |
|
|
| Surreptitious types |
|
|
| CIA agents |
|
|
| Smiley's people? |
|
|
| Moles, e.g. |
|
|
| People who aren't what they seem |
|
|
| 007 and others |
|
|
| Shadows |
|
|
| 1928 Fritz Lang thriller |
|
|
| Cloak-and-dagger types |
|
|
| Sometimes they get the hang of it |
|
|
| Double agents |
|
|
| Some are moles |
|
|
| People of intelligence |
|
|
| André and Hari |
|
|
| Secret passers |
|
|
| Operatives |
|
|
| Certain moles |
|
|
| Northern ___ (apples) |
|
|
| Acts like Caleb |
|
|
| Unfriendly observers |
|
|
| Smiley's people |
|
|
| Some K.G.B. men |
|
|
| Secret agents |
|
|
| C.I.A. employees |
|
|
| Hale and Hari |
|
|
| Triple agents |
|
|
| Hari et al. |
|
|
| Infiltrators |
|
|
| Undercover men |
|
|
| Fleming characters |
|
|
| Hari and Hale |
|
|
| Catches sight of |
|
|
| Certain informers |
|
|
| Secret seekers |
|
|
| Secretive ones |
|
|
| Uses binoculars |
|
|
| High-risk workers |
|
|
| Mata Hari, etc. |
|
|
| Snoopers |
|
|
| Agents |
|
|
| Cloak-and-dagger men. |
|
|
| Keeps watch. |
|
|
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for example. |
|
|
| Gains sight of. |
|
|
| Secret agents. |
|
|
| Northern ___ (apples). |
|
|
| Intriguing characters. |
|
|
| Northern ___, winter apples. |
|
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| Cover group? |
|
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| F. B. I. targets. |
|
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| Cloak and dagger men. |
|
|
| Targets of the F. B. I. |
|
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| Fuchs, Gold, etc. |
|
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| Perceives. |
|
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| J. Edgar Hoover's prey. |
|
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| Current heroes, in fact or fiction. |
|
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| Snoops. |
|
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| Bond and others. |
|
|
| 007, et al. |
|
|
| Heroes of current fiction. |
|
|
| Front-page figures. |
|
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