| Hot sweet bread with length removed |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
18 Oct 2025 |
| Left out fruit cake was pilfered (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 Oct 2025 |
| 2012 action film starring Nicolas Cage and Josh Lucas (6) |
Mirror Quiz |
11 Oct 2025 |
| Looted pistol enemy holds |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
06 Oct 2025 |
| Hot way to take Noel off! (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
28 Sep 2025 |
| Taken illegally |
Commuter |
18 Sep 2025 |
| Taken illegally |
Commuter |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Swiped |
USA Today |
02 Aug 2025 |
| Sounds like the flower part was nicked (6) |
|
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| Like many priceless artworks and artifacts, in Carmen Sandiego games |
|
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| Taken without consent |
|
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| Pinched about fifty new notes (6) |
|
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| Lets on could be pinched (6) |
|
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| Hot Christmas cake is not essential (6) |
|
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| Taken illegally |
Commuter |
26 Mar 2025 |
| Like some bases or hearts |
New York Times |
18 Mar 2025 |
| Illicitly acquired bundle of pound notes |
|
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| Taken without permission |
USA Today |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Hot - heading towards 45 degrees with many keeling over |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Feb 2025 |
| Large stone, about to be cut, acquired illegally (6) |
|
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| Lets no letters get pinched (6) |
|
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| "Plagiarists are always suspicious of being ___ from": Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6) |
|
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| Criminal lost near leaderless hideout acquired illegally (6) |
|
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| Hot money (Asian), turned the lot in (6) |
|
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| Pilfered |
Universal |
23 Dec 2024 |
| Long scarf, new, being nicked (6) |
|
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| Hot |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
09 Dec 2024 |
| Like Mona lisa's smile in a Carmen Sandiego video game |
USA Today |
09 Dec 2024 |
| Tin-plated metal ware is taken illegally? (6) |
|
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| Like shoplifted merchandise |
|
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| Kidnapped and taken deviously to Lens? (6) |
|
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| Taken wrongfully |
|
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| Purloined (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Nov 2024 |
| Cod has gone stone cold - but someone nicked it.' (6) |
|
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| Pinched Southampton water finally in the second place (6) |
|
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| Like shoplifted goods |
|
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| Had pinched a fur and nice top (6) |
|
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| Lifted |
LA Times Daily |
29 Sep 2024 |
| Taken unlawfully |
Mirror Quick |
28 Sep 2024 |
| Lets on about being hot |
Mirror Cryptic |
28 Sep 2024 |
| Headed for a fence |
|
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| Hot, pinched (6) |
|
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| Lets on how it was pinched (6) |
|
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| "The ... Child" (WB Yeats) |
|
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| Purloined (6) |
The Guardian Speedy |
09 Sep 2024 |
| German cake half-heartedly taken (6) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
09 Sep 2024 |
| Purloined (6) |
The Guardian Speedy |
08 Sep 2024 |
| German cake half-heartedly taken (6) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
08 Sep 2024 |
| Crept along surreptitiously after the burglary (6) |
|
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| Had snaffled about fifty notes in a bundle (6) |
|
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| Lets on purloined (6) |
|
|
| Taken illicitly |
Premier Sunday |
01 Sep 2024 |
| Goods or glances could be so purloined (6) |
|
|
| Hot, in a way |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Aug 2024 |
| Shawl, new, taken dishonestly (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
17 Jul 2024 |
| Had pinched about fifty notes in a bundle (6) |
|
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| No! Let's assume that a thief has taken it |
|
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| See turning in the gun that was misappropriated (6) |
|
|
| Taken unlawfully |
Mirror Quick |
27 Jun 2024 |
| New shawl starts to get hot |
Mirror Cryptic |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Shoulder covering, new, was pilfered (6) |
|
|
| German Christmas cake left out to be pinched (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
16 Jun 2024 |
| Taken by thief |
|
|
| Taken illegally, ... goods |
|
|
| Taken illegally |
Puzzler Backwords |
30 May 2024 |
| Pinched large amounts over by the centre of Vienna (6) |
|
|
| Pilfered |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 May 2024 |
| Insane novelties I've taken for granted have been illegally obtained |
|
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| Taken away illegally (6) |
|
|
| Like goods that are taken without permission |
|
|
| Hot? |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Like some bases |
Universal |
15 Apr 2024 |
| Taken by thieves |
Puzzler Backwords |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Like some bases and cars |
|
|
| How it was taken or lost at two points |
|
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| Filched pilfered |
|
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| Taken by theft |
|
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| Taken by the |
|
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| Taken from Bristol environmentalist |
|
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| Hot fruit loaf left out (6) |
|
|
| Illegally obtained |
USA Today |
13 Feb 2024 |
| Getting hot, Noel is jogging on the street (6) |
|
|
| Taken unlawfully |
Mirror Quick |
08 Feb 2024 |
| Let son somehow become hot |
Mirror Cryptic |
08 Feb 2024 |
| How it was taken or lost at two points (6) |
|
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| Somehow lost on points - possibly robbed (6) |
|
|
| Had made off with fifty in assorted notes (6) |
|
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| Nicked to first slip, Len caught the first ball (6) |
|
|
| Len's to show how it was taken |
|
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| Had snaffled the fifty notes strewn around (6) |
|
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| Let the son have it? But it's not acquired legally! |
|
|
| Taken to beer without opening tin cans? |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Nov 2023 |
| Lets on - terribly hot (6) |
|
|
| Taken illegally |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Nov 2023 |
| Fur, new, getting nicked |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Nov 2023 |
| Acquired illegally, like a car |
|
|
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Oct 2023 |
| Pinched scarf close to town |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
18 Sep 2023 |
| Like some kisses and bases |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Sep 2023 |
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Sep 2023 |
| Pilfered |
The Times Concise |
28 Jun 2023 |
| Like some bases and hearts |
USA Today |
23 Jun 2023 |
| Like hot stuff |
New York Times |
18 Jun 2023 |
| Pinched |
New York Times |
31 May 2023 |
| Hot sweet bread left out |
The Guardian Cryptic |
11 May 2023 |
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Apr 2023 |
| Pinched or boosted |
Newsday |
23 Mar 2023 |
| What the starts of nine answers in this puzzle might be |
Premier Sunday |
22 Jan 2023 |
| Lifted |
New York Times |
11 Jan 2023 |
| Taken illicitly |
Premier Sunday |
25 Dec 2022 |
| Filched |
Universal |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Poached eggs first, no cereal, the bacon last of all |
The Guardian Cryptic |
30 Sep 2022 |
| As might be a Banksy work found on a fence? |
|
|
| Swiped |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Sep 2022 |
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Aug 2022 |
| Like some cars and kisses |
New York Times |
24 Jul 2022 |
| Hot, in a way |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Jul 2022 |
| Pirated or pocketed |
Universal |
05 Jul 2022 |
| Taken dishonestly |
New York Times |
28 Jun 2022 |
| Purloined |
Premier Sunday |
12 Jun 2022 |
| Taken without permission |
USA Today |
04 Jun 2022 |
| Pinched |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jun 2022 |
| Pinched |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Jun 2022 |
| Curiously, lets on it was ripped off. |
Irish Times Crosaire |
11 May 2022 |
| Taken plenty turning over both of 18's banks |
The Guardian Quiptic |
02 May 2022 |
| Taken plenty turning over both of 18's banks |
|
|
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Illegally acquired |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Boosted |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Feb 2022 |
| Filched, or what the ends of 17-, 33-, 39- and 57-Across could be |
Universal |
07 Feb 2022 |
| Taken by a robber, say |
|
|
| Pilfered or pirated |
Universal |
22 Nov 2021 |
| Hot stone cracked around lake |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Oct 2021 |
| Hot, in a way |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Oct 2021 |
| Hot? No? Let's play |
|
|
| These goods have been taken dishonestly |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Sep 2021 |
| Taken illegally |
USA Today |
15 Sep 2021 |
| Illegally obtained |
Newsday |
31 Aug 2021 |
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Aug 2021 |
| Illegally obtained |
USA Today |
18 Aug 2021 |
| Hot, in a way |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Jul 2021 |
| These goods have been taken dishonestly |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 Jul 2021 |
| Taken (by a thief) |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Jul 2021 |
| Like hot items? |
Universal |
16 May 2021 |
| Shrug's new; robbed |
|
|
| Candlemas to Lent, not entirely hot |
|
|
| Taken without permission |
USA Today |
01 Apr 2021 |
| Hot water sailor might be in shortly – tide's beginning to come in |
|
|
| Dishonestly obtained |
LA Times Daily |
20 Mar 2021 |
| Dishonestly obtained |
The Washington Post |
20 Mar 2021 |
| Taken to beer without opening tin cans |
|
|
| Purloined |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Dec 2020 |
| Hot line seen in various notes |
|
|
| Poached fish contains bone and it's not the first |
Irish Times Crosaire |
11 Sep 2020 |
| Swiped |
Canadiana |
07 Sep 2020 |
| Garment, new, shoplifted? |
|
|
| Hot Christmas cake left to be taken away |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Aug 2020 |
| Obtained unlawfully |
Newsday |
29 Jul 2020 |
| Like some glances and bases |
Universal |
27 Jul 2020 |
| Hot |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Jul 2020 |
| Fur, new, getting nicked |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jul 2020 |
| Taken illegally |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jul 2020 |
| Misappropriated |
The Guardian Speedy |
28 Jun 2020 |
| Goods that have been taken dishonestly |
Irish Times Simplex |
26 May 2020 |
| Like bases and hearts |
The Washington Post Sunday |
10 May 2020 |
| Hot |
New York Times |
25 Apr 2020 |
| Like the 'Mona Lisa' in 1911 |
New York Times |
19 Apr 2020 |
| Fur knight's taken dishonestly |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Apr 2020 |
| Removed illegally |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Apr 2020 |
| Like a hot car |
Universal |
28 Mar 2020 |
| Like hot stuff |
Premier Sunday |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Hot fruit bread one pupil spurned |
|
|
| Taken without the owner's consent |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Nov 2019 |
| Hot stone crumbled around lake |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Nov 2019 |
| Pinched or swiped |
Universal |
12 Nov 2019 |
| Pinched |
The Times Concise |
09 Nov 2019 |
| Pilfered |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Oct 2019 |
| Hot line in forged notes |
|
|
| Nicked |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Sep 2019 |
| Hot bread one left out |
|
|
| Hot, in a way |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Sep 2019 |
| Like chop-shop cars |
USA Today |
14 Aug 2019 |
| Hot German bread one left out |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Jul 2019 |
| Hot duck St Leonard eats |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Jul 2019 |
| Like a thief's loot |
New York Times |
17 Jun 2019 |
| Hot stone cracked around lake |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2019 |
| Like some bases or kisses |
USA Today |
10 May 2019 |
| Like fenced goods |
|
|
| Like plagiarized work, say |
LA Times Daily |
26 Mar 2019 |
| Like plagiarized work, say |
The Washington Post |
26 Mar 2019 |
| Like hot goods |
USA Today |
14 Mar 2019 |
| Like some kisses |
New York Times |
16 Feb 2019 |
| Gown with tail of ermelin, making you hot |
|
|
| Misappropriated |
Newsday |
17 Jan 2019 |
| Like chop-shop cars |
|
|
| Like plagiarized work, say |
|
|
| Like a thief's loot |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Like some bases or kisses |
|
|
| Like hot goods |
|
|
| Hot |
The Washington Post |
30 Dec 2018 |
| Hot |
LA Times Daily |
30 Dec 2018 |
| Like a fence's wares |
USA Today |
26 Dec 2018 |
| In opposite directions, lacquered metalware taken |
|
|
| Taken without permission |
Newsday |
17 Dec 2018 |
| Hot |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Dec 2018 |
| Like hot merchandise |
USA Today |
02 Dec 2018 |
| New undergarment is hot! |
|
|
| Plagiarized or pirated |
USA Today |
16 Nov 2018 |
| Hot items from auction returned by workers heading off |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Nov 2018 |
| Scarf, new, taken by thief |
|
|
| Pinched |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Aug 2018 |
| Ill-gotten wrap's new |
|
|
| Hot number by Scarf |
|
|
| Hot line in forged notes |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Jul 2018 |
| Acquired illegally |
Newsday |
11 Jun 2018 |
| Temperature in fish ending in oven, hot |
|
|
| Taken illicitly |
Premier Sunday |
20 May 2018 |
| Hot way to take Noel off! |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Mar 2018 |
| Nicked |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Mar 2018 |
| Ripped off scarf by mid-morning |
|
|
| Gotten illegally |
Newsday |
04 Feb 2018 |
| Hot fruit loaf, only one left |
|
|
| Name on piece of neckwear snatched |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Jan 2018 |
| Plagiarized or pirated |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Like a fence's wares |
|
|
| Like hot merchandise |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Hot stuff! Christmas cake reduced by £1 |
|
|
| Like home, on rare occasions |
New York Times |
11 Nov 2017 |
| Taken dishonestly |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Oct 2017 |
| Lecturer stopping scruffy notes being plagiarised |
|
|
| Knight under scarf is hot |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Oct 2017 |
| Swiped |
Universal |
06 Aug 2017 |
| Maybe lost by European native initially or taken illegally |
|
|
| Hot |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Jul 2017 |
| Hot wrap worn finally |
|
|
| Poached, but not scrambled |
Newsday |
03 Jun 2017 |
| Swiped, as kisses? |
Universal |
24 May 2017 |
| Like fenced goods |
USA Today |
07 May 2017 |
| Hot in Bristol, England |
|
|
| Illegally obtained furs worn to first night |
|
|
| Like fenced goods |
|
|
| Swiped |
|
|
| Swiped, as kisses? |
|
|
| Like home, on rare occasions |
|
|
| Hot German bread, middle hollowed out |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Nov 2016 |
| Ill-gotten |
Newsday |
29 Sep 2016 |
| Surreptitiously taken or lifted, even nicked initially |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Sep 2016 |
| Snatched |
New York Times |
27 Jul 2016 |
| Hot shawl is new |
Irish Times Crosaire |
12 Jul 2016 |
| Hot German bread one left to be cut |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Apr 2016 |
| Gun without original owner's licence is hot |
|
|
| Pilfered |
LA Times Daily |
07 Mar 2016 |
| Snitched |
Canadiana |
07 Mar 2016 |
| Garment on middle of bench pinched |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Jan 2016 |
| Taken the wrong way |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Jan 2016 |
| Snatched |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Taken dishonestly |
Universal |
21 Oct 2015 |
| Hot wrap with mango centre |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Oct 2015 |
| Taken illegally |
The Times Concise |
23 Sep 2015 |
| Taken by thieves that upset one lot selling hides |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2015 |
| Nicked wrap that's new |
|
|
| Swiped |
Family Time |
19 Apr 2015 |
| Illegally obtained |
Newsday |
24 Mar 2015 |
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Illegally obtained |
|
|
| Taken dishonestly |
|
|
| Hot fruit loaf gets left out |
|
|
| Taken dishonestly |
|
|
| Filched |
|
|
| Like some bases |
|
|
| Taken illegally |
|
|
| Oswald primarily left gun outside that's hot |
|
|
| Knocked off vestment with pole |
|
|
| Pinched |
|
|
| Taken in a break-in |
|
|
| Pinched |
|
|
| Like some bases and kisses |
|
|
| Like some bases or glances |
|
|
| Taken in a break-in |
|
|
| Swiped |
|
|
| Plundered |
|
|
| Like some glances |
|
|
| Like fenced goods |
|
|
| Ripped off |
|
|
| "Hot," as loot |
|
|
| At a chop shop, perhaps |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Ripped off |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Ripped off |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Like some kisses and bases |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Taken by a shoplifter |
|
|
| Taken by a shoplifter |
|
|
| Pirated |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Filched |
|
|
| Gotten illegally |
|
|
| Like some glances |
|
|
| Hot, in a sense |
|
|
| Like some kisses and bases |
|
|
| On the black market, most likely |
|
|
| Acquired illegally |
|
|
| Hot, so to speak |
|
|
| Like some kisses and bases |
|
|
| Ripped off |
|
|
| Pinched |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Hot, in a sense |
|
|
| Boosted, so to speak |
|
|
| Boosted, so to speak |
|
|
| Destined for fencing? |
|
|
| Nipped |
|
|
| Ripped off |
|
|
| Like hot goods |
|
|
| Hot, in a sense |
|
|
| Hot, so to speak |
|
|
| Plundered |
|
|
| Obtained illegally |
|
|
| Destined for fencing? |
|
|
| Like hot goods |
|
|
| Lifted |
|
|
| Robbed |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| In a chop shop, say |
|
|
| Purloined |
|
|
| Ill-gotten |
|
|
| About to be fenced, maybe |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Lifted |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Lifted |
|
|
| Like a fence's goods |
|
|
| About to be fenced, maybe |
|
|
| Pilfered |
|
|
| Pilfered |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Destined for a fence |
|
|
| About to be fenced, maybe |
|
|
| Like some kisses and unlocked bikes |
|
|
| Type of property |
|
|
| Lifted |
|
|
| Hot, in a way |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Like second, sometimes |
|
|
| Swiped |
|
|
| Hot stone cracked around lake |
|
|
| Like booty |
|
|
| Destined for a chop shop, say |
|
|
| Destined for the chop shop |
|
|
| Like a fence's goods |
|
|
| Hot cake to be reduced by one pound |
|
|
| Taken in a robbery |
|
|
| Hot, in a way |
|
|
| Ripped off |
|
|
| Not borrowed, perhaps |
|
|
| Hot, perhaps |
|
|
| Like a fence's wares |
|
|
| Like "hot" goods |
|
|
| Purloined |
|
|
| Like some glances |
|
|
| Like some bases or kisses |
|
|
| Hot, so to speak |
|
|
| Like some kisses |
|
|
| Kind of kisses |
|
|
| Like Tom's pig |
|
|
| Hot, in a sense |
|
|
| "___ Kisses," 1968 film |
|
|
| Truffaut's "___ Kisses" |
|
|
| "The ___ Hours," 1963 film |
|
|
| Purloined |
|
|
| Pillered |
|
|
| "A ___ Life," 1939 film |
|
|
| Pilfered |
|
|
| ___ bases (R. Henderson stat) |
|
|
| "___ Kisses," Truffaut film |
|
|
| "___ Moments," Hank Snow hit |
|
|
| "Hot" |
|
|
| "A ___ Life" (Bette Davis film of 1946) |
|
|
| Hot, to a hood |
|
|
| Strayed follower |
|
|
| Heisted |
|
|
| "___ waters are sweet": Prov. 9:17 |
|
|
| Hot, as goods |
|
|
| Pilfered. |
|
|
| Obtained by craft. |
|
|
| Wrongly taken. |
|
|
| Taken. |
|
|
| Effected in secret. |
|
|
| Peculated. |
|
|
| Purloined. |
|
|
| Plagiarized. |
|
|
| ___ base. |
|
|
| Hot |
|
|
| Poached |
|
|
| Abstracted. |
|
|
| Obtained by theft. |
|
|
| Appropriated without right. |
|
|
| One kind of base. |
|
|
| Filched. |
|
|
| Obtained unlawfully. |
|
|