| Umpire's call |
Commuter |
07 May 2026 |
| Tenpin bowling success? |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 May 2026 |
| Hit a ball (6) |
The Sun Mini |
10 Feb 2026 |
| Second means of transport on which one won't go to work |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Jan 2026 |
| Opportunity to demand fair wages, maybe |
The Atlantic |
21 Dec 2025 |
| Bowling feat |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Nov 2025 |
| Swing and a miss, at a baseball game |
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| An "X" denotes this on certain scoreboards |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
02 Nov 2025 |
| Call at home |
New York Times |
26 Oct 2025 |
| Stoppage is a hit (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Punch (6) |
Mirror Quick |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Possible result for a batter |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Sep 2025 |
| Deliver a blow to (6) |
Mirror Classic |
16 Aug 2025 |
| Assault (6) |
Puzzler |
11 Aug 2025 |
| Stoppage is a hit (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Punch (6) |
Mirror Quick |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Attack and walk out |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
17 Jul 2025 |
| Bowling feat |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Jul 2025 |
| A buffet - or it might be of the sit-down variety (6) |
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| Tenpin bowling feat |
The Times Concise |
21 Jun 2025 |
| Give the impression, as you go out (6) |
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| An interesting blow (6) |
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| Industrial action because of the umpire's call? (6) |
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| Stoppage is a hit (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Punch (6) |
Mirror Quick |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Industrial action hit |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
31 May 2025 |
| Be out to make an impression (6) |
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| Go out when you light up (6) |
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| Bump into as you go out (6) |
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| Chime (midnight) |
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| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
22 Apr 2025 |
| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
22 Apr 2025 |
| Hit, to get the match going (6) |
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| Light a match (6) |
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| Are out to make an impression (6) |
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| What a batsman takes when the ball hits him? (6) |
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| To create an impression, down tools (6) |
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| A bird - may damage an aircraft (6) |
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| Will chime if you give it a bang (6) |
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| Industrial conflict (6) |
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| Punch and the bell will go (6) |
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| Industrial action is a hit! (6) |
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| Stop work to play ball? (6) |
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| Hit and walk out for example (6) |
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| Clock a" or what a clock might do (6) |
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| How the clock will mark the time of industrial action (6) |
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| Produce light on industrial action? (6) |
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| Go all-out to hit? (6) |
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| Won't work when you try to sound the note (6) |
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| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
21 Jan 2025 |
| One of those military attacks that don't work? (6) |
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| Industrial outgoing |
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| How players make light of a match? (6) |
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| Enter one's mind and take root (6) |
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| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
15 Dec 2024 |
| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
15 Dec 2024 |
| Industrial action resulting in a flare-up? (6) |
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| Refuse to work small child's plaything |
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| Collide with, as you go out (6) |
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| Tenpin bowling score (6) |
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| A blow to put you off work? (6) |
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| Hit by an industrial dispute (6) |
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| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
24 Nov 2024 |
| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
24 Nov 2024 |
| Mark time and refuse to work (6) |
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| Bang as you go out (6) |
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| Pound is hit by industrial action (6) |
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| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Crash into the school head on a tricycle (6) |
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| Hit forcibly (6) |
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| To down tools can be a blow (6) |
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| Hit bar, having left foremost of pubs for King's Head |
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| Hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand (6) |
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| Sit-down buffet? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Walk out and clobber (6) |
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| Give the impression they won't work (6) |
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| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
17 Sep 2024 |
| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
17 Sep 2024 |
| Workforce walkout (6) |
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| Hit with a form of industrial action |
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| Are out? Blow! (6) |
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| Good man's gamble to miss second European mutiny (6) |
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| PI played by Tom Burke, Cormoran ______ (6) |
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| Union's work walkout |
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| Cormoran _, private investigator created by Robert Galbraith, aka JK Rowling (6) |
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| Industrial protest (6) |
Mirror Classic |
10 Aug 2024 |
| Down tools |
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| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
06 Aug 2024 |
| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
06 Aug 2024 |
| Don't work but possibly make money (6) |
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| What the match needs is a stoppage (6) |
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| Lash out when you get luck as a prospector (6) |
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| Make like the WGA in 2023 |
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| Cormoran ___, sleuth created by J.K. Rowling (6) |
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| Political action as a sign of the times? (6) |
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| Swing and a miss in baseball (6) |
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| Enter one's mind to give up work (6) |
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| All out hit (6) |
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| Knocking down of all pins at once won't work (6) |
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| Industrial stoppage |
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| Come out in dispute while the iron's hot? (6) |
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| Yet it may mean miners work harder! (6) |
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| Do nothing to give you the impression (6) |
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| Official stoppage of work (6) |
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| Word followed by It Lucky - title of a game show presented by Michael Barrymore (6) |
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| Stop work in protest (6) |
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| Attack an interruption in production (6) |
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| To refuse to work is a blow (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
13 May 2024 |
| Blow (6) |
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| Give the impression you'll attack physically (6) |
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| Are out to attack (6) |
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| Go out (6) |
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| Go out and you light a match (6) |
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| Inflammatory action by workers? (6) |
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| "___ gold," phrase that a baseball pitcher might get excited about? |
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| You make a hit when you stop work |
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| Bowler's goal |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Apr 2024 |
| Hit by industrial action? (6) |
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| Way Republican president once is for industrial action |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
27 Mar 2024 |
| Hit hard when involved in allout action (6) |
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| Walkout (6) |
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| Walkout |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Mar 2024 |
| A clock may do it and continue working (6) |
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| Bump into, as you walk out (6) |
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| Don't work on hit (6) |
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| Impress you as bang on! (6) |
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| Make light of match? (6) |
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| Devastate(6) |
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| Industrial action is a blow (6) |
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| Downing of tools |
Puzzler Backwords |
14 Feb 2024 |
| Hit for refusal to work |
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| Knock everybody out |
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| Attack industrial action (6) |
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| Do nothing to create an impact (6) |
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| Hit and miss? (6) |
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| Give the impression you'll lash out at (6) |
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| Bowling alley achievement |
Commuter |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Blow! A stoppage! (6) |
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| Cormoran _, PI created by JK Rowling as Robert Galbraith (6) |
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| Act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball of a frame in ten-pin bowling |
Mirror Quiz |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Stoppage is a hit |
Mirror Cryptic |
17 Dec 2023 |
| Punch |
Mirror Quick |
17 Dec 2023 |
| Act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball of a frame in ten-pin bowling (6) |
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| Bowling X |
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| Clash as a result of industrial action |
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| X in tenpin bowling |
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| Hit |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Oct 2023 |
| Withdrawal of labour |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Aug 2023 |
| Walk-out |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Apr 2023 |
| Street vehicle not initially good outcome in alley |
The Telegraph Toughie |
20 Apr 2023 |
| Success in pitching or bowling |
New York Times |
17 Apr 2023 |
| Hit this form of industrial action |
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| Bowling feat |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Mar 2023 |
| Deliver a blow to |
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| A form of industrial action |
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| Ring a bell, or play the piano? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
31 Mar 2022 |
| Small child’s wheeled toy making impact |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Mar 2022 |
| Hit by small kid's bicycle |
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| Deliver a blow |
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| Light up the match for club |
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| Raise a stink not using Asian batter |
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| Rear brakes on tricycle stop working |
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| Form of industrial action |
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| Deliver a blow |
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| "___ Force," '80s action packed police series which aired on ABC network |
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| Rear brakes on tricycle stop working |
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| Form of industrial action |
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| Ball alternative, in softball |
Universal |
27 Jul 2021 |
| Hit |
The Times Concise |
20 Jun 2021 |
| Stop work on the geological feature |
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| Rear brakes on tricycle stop working |
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| Deliver a blow |
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| Down tools in box |
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| "The ___," Christmas episode from the ninth season of the sitcom "Seinfeld" |
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| Industrial action is blow |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jul 2020 |
| Hit |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Jul 2020 |
| Form of industrial action |
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| Ten pins in one ball |
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| Hit; cancel |
The Times Concise |
06 May 2020 |
| Cormoran --, a series of crime fiction books by J.K. Rowling, under the nom de plume Robert Galbraith |
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| Third of a turkey, in bowling |
Universal |
30 Oct 2019 |
| Foul ball, often |
USA Today |
09 Oct 2019 |
| Swing and a miss, at a baseball game |
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| Bowling feat |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Aug 2019 |
| Rear brakes on bike stop working |
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| Hit; withdraw labour |
The Times Concise |
18 Feb 2019 |
| Light lamp? |
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| Come to buffet |
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| Third of a turkey, in bowling |
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| Foul ball, often |
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| Term in baseball and bowling |
Newsday |
28 Dec 2018 |
| Hit small three-wheeler |
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| 1/3 of a K |
Universal |
28 Aug 2018 |
| Hit; withhold labour |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Cycles back to front in protest |
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| Hit Sierra, then three-wheeler |
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| Cancel military attack |
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| 1/3 of a K |
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| Pound of batter? |
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| Foul ball, to the batter |
Family Time |
20 Aug 2017 |
| X, to a kegler |
USA Today |
19 Aug 2017 |
| On which workers are out to impress? |
The Times Cryptic |
20 Feb 2017 |
| Collide with small child's transport |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Feb 2017 |
| Word on a picketer's sign |
USA Today |
11 Feb 2017 |
| Appear to knock down tools |
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| X, to a kegler |
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| Precious discovery in stanza Rilke left out |
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| Cancel industrial action |
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| Discover sock |
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| Industrial action |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Hit or take industrial action |
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| One third of a turkey |
USA Today |
25 May 2016 |
| Collide with front of stationary three-wheeler |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 May 2016 |
| Hit |
LA Times Daily |
01 Apr 2016 |
| Hit; down tools |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Jan 2016 |
| Down tools |
The Guardian Quick |
16 Jan 2016 |
| One third of a turkey |
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| Son with toy: bang! |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Aug 2015 |
| One will have their work cut out with this in Punch |
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| Punch clock |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Mar 2015 |
| Ump's call, sometimes |
USA Today |
24 Feb 2015 |
| Walk the picket line |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2015 |
| Hit |
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| Walk the picket line |
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| Ump's call, sometimes |
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| It may bring things to a standstill |
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| Hit small three-wheeler |
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| Ten pins in one ball |
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| X, in bowling |
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| Discovery — vehicle on which Scott's setting out |
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| Swing and a miss, say |
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| One of three for an out |
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| Swing and a miss, say |
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| Batter's miss |
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| Hit with a bat, or miss with a bat |
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| X in an alley |
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| Alley X |
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| Bowler's success |
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| See 29 Down |
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| Temple of the Dog went on a "Hunger" one |
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| Land a blow |
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| X in an alley |
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| Bring the match alive with shot at goal |
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| Light, as a match |
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| Light, as a match |
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| Word that can mean "a hit" or "a miss" |
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| Ump's call, in baseball |
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| Bowling or baseball term |
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| Perfect pitch |
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| Call at home |
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| Job action |
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| Its symbol is "X" |
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| Bowling goal |
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| It may whiz past one's knees |
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| Work stoppage |
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| Work stoppage |
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| Fouled-off pitch, perhaps |
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| Perfect pitch |
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| X, to a bowler |
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| Swing and a miss |
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| Its symbol is X |
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| 1/3 of an out, perhaps |
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| Attack |
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| Toll the hour |
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| Labor action |
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| Labor action |
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| Lane X |
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| Go on the picket line |
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| Umpire's call |
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| Umpire's call |
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| It may whiz past one's knees |
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| Forty-niner's fantasy |
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| 1/3 of an out, perhaps |
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| Sound, as the hour |
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| One-third of a turkey |
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| Alley coup |
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| Turkey part |
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| Call at home |
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| General in charge of labor disputes? |
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| Ump's cry |
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| Ump's call |
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| One third of a turkey |
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| Accomplishment in an alley |
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| Go on the offensive |
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| Small child's wheeled toy making impact |
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| Clear the scenery |
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| Lode find |
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| Bowler's goal |
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| Word Clemens likes to hear |
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| Typical Clemens pitch |
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| Bowler's X |
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| Alley coup |
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| Thrill at the alleys |
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| ___ it rich |
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| Batter's zone |
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| Ore discovery |
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| Umpire's call |
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| Bowling word |
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| Ump's call. |
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| Bowling score. |
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| Bowling term. |
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| Lucky hit in bowling. |
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| Any sudden success. |
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| One third of a turkey |
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| One for the baseball pitcher. |
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| Industrial problem. |
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| When the umpire raises his right arm. |
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| Umpire's signal. |
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| Bowling shot. |
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| Umpire's decision. |
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