| Tight with money |
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| Mean, like Medusa? (6) |
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| Mean, tight with money (6) |
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| Very tight, is liable to hurt (6) |
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| "Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side, and don't be ____, baby!" (Greta Garbo's first spoken words on film) |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
01 Jun 2025 |
| Mean, like a wasp? (6) |
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| Overcharge youth leader being mean (6) |
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| Like Scrooge, starting to save money - heartless fellow! (6) |
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| Penny-pinching elaborate con ends badly (6) |
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| Hurt Yankee with tight fist? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
15 Mar 2025 |
| Mean as a British 21 19? (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
12 Feb 2025 |
| Like tightwads |
New York Times |
09 Feb 2025 |
| What wasp will do to your top is mean (6) |
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| Miserly |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Jan 2025 |
| Mean English singer over year (6) |
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| Tight-fisted (6) |
Puzzler |
28 Dec 2024 |
| Tail is mean (6) |
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| Mean to order gin in the enclosure (6) |
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| Smart you initially are but mean (6) |
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| Mean wound given by last fly (6) |
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| Mean confidence trick by Yankee |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Nov 2024 |
| Incredibly close |
Newsday |
09 Nov 2024 |
| Mean, ungenerous |
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| Mean enough to overcharge youth leader (6) |
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| Mean to mix spirit in pen (6) |
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| Frugal and smart millennial generation (6) |
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| Mean enough to get money from youth leader (6) |
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| Unlike a spendthrift |
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| Mean to overcharge youth leader |
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| Gordon Sumner first youth to be mean (6) |
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| Avaricious - and wasplike? (6) |
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| Miserly, mean |
Mirror Classic |
18 Apr 2024 |
| To hurt donkey's tail is mean (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
27 Mar 2024 |
| Mean to prick you initially (6) |
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| Mean description of a nettle? (6) |
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| Niggardly, mean (6) |
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| Tight bassist at the end of Synchronicity |
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| Mean, miserly (6) |
Puzzler |
06 Dec 2023 |
| Mean -- as are nettles? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Just like a prick to be mean |
The Guardian Cryptic |
11 Sep 2023 |
| Sharply painful |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Aug 2023 |
| Mean to be a bit painful |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Jun 2023 |
| Like Scrooge's con trick, getting last of money |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 May 2023 |
| Penny-pinching ... or a three-part hint to two outer and two inner letters of each starred clue's answer |
Universal |
26 Apr 2023 |
| Mean street in outskirts of Guernsey |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Apr 2023 |
| Penny-pinching |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Apr 2023 |
| Miserly |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Dec 2022 |
| Ungenerous |
The Times Concise |
15 Nov 2022 |
| Tight-fisted |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Aug 2022 |
| Mean street in outskirts of Grimsby |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Dec 2021 |
| Cheap |
The Washington Post |
21 Jul 2021 |
| Cheap |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jul 2021 |
| Tight with a buck |
Newsday |
15 Jul 2021 |
| Mean to be wasting years? Not altogether |
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| Scroogean |
The Washington Post |
02 May 2021 |
| Scroogean |
LA Times Daily |
02 May 2021 |
| Yard is behind police undercover operation - how mean is that? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Mar 2021 |
| Miserly |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Jan 2021 |
| Not giving smart reply in the end |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Sep 2020 |
| Mean, miserly |
The Times Concise |
11 Aug 2020 |
| Mean pop star – my money is missing |
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| Mean |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Jun 2020 |
| Niggardly |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Apr 2020 |
| Miserly |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2020 |
| Miserly |
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| Unlikely to support a crowdfunding project |
USA Today |
23 Dec 2019 |
| Miserly |
Premier Sunday |
20 Oct 2019 |
| Mean |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Aug 2019 |
| Mean to do last of laundry |
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| Mean poisoner's no artist |
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| Unwilling to spend final money after robbery |
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| Miserly |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Mar 2019 |
| Yard is behind police trap - how mean is that? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Oct 2018 |
| Penny-pinching, vacuous young son goes back to pocket money |
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| Mean swindle by unknown character |
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| Like Scrooge |
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| Policeman close to adversary like Scrooge? |
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| Miserly |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Jul 2017 |
| Mean fish sun-god's eradicated |
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| Parsimonious |
The Guardian Speedy |
12 Mar 2017 |
| Like Scrooge, liable to cause pain |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Dec 2016 |
| Tightfisted |
The Washington Post |
19 Oct 2016 |
| Tight-fisted |
The Times Concise |
07 Aug 2016 |
| Tight and painful, in a way? Said differently |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Oct 2015 |
| Tight skirt, with invitation -- guy observing limits |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 May 2015 |
| Take part in investing, yet reluctant to spend money |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Apr 2015 |
| Liberal's opposite |
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| Cheap |
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| Tight |
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| Not very generous |
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| Mean |
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| Tight |
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| Scroogelike |
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| Mean |
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| Not very generous |
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| Penny-pinching |
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| Like Shylock |
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| Mean one, no good, in a filthy place |
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| Tight-fisted |
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| Tight-fisted |
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| Like Scrooge |
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| Penny-pinching |
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| Not at all generous |
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| Not at all generous |
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| Scroogean |
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| Scroogean |
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| Mean |
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| Penny-pinching |
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| Penny-pinching |
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| Tight |
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| Parsimonious |
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| Tight |
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| Tight-fisted |
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| Scrooge-like |
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| Cheap |
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| Parsimonious |
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| Mean street in outskirts of Grimsby |
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| Tight-fisted |
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| Scroogelike |
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| Tight |
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| Tightfisted |
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| Like Scrooge |
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| Penurious |
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| Parsimonious |
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| Tightfisted |
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| Cheap |
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| Closefisted |
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| Close-fisted. |
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| Closefisted. |
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| Describes Ebenezer Scrooge. |
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| Close. |
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| Meager |
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| Penurious. |
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