| Quickly take |
Commuter |
10 Mar 2026 |
| ____ left or ____ right, dating app action |
The Telegraph Plusword |
14 Feb 2026 |
| Run off with |
LA Times Daily |
08 Feb 2026 |
| Steal, informally |
Newsday |
09 Dec 2025 |
| Filch |
USA Today |
19 Nov 2025 |
| What those on a dating app may do |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
18 Nov 2025 |
| Nick, steal |
Puzzler Backwords |
17 Nov 2025 |
| Filch |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2025 |
| Make a decision on Bumble |
USA Today |
13 Oct 2025 |
| Action when paying with a card |
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| Express appreciation for a dating profile, say |
New York Times Mini |
29 Sep 2025 |
| Pinch small tissue |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
17 Sep 2025 |
| Dating app action, e.g. |
The Telegraph Mini |
19 Aug 2025 |
| Motions left or right on deer (5) |
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| Nick, steal (5) |
Puzzler |
10 Jul 2025 |
| Use credit card to steal |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
09 Jul 2025 |
| Nick, steal |
Puzzler Backwords |
26 Jun 2025 |
| Run through a card reader |
USA Today |
26 Jun 2025 |
| Nick; slap |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 May 2025 |
| A strike in Cornish pie making? |
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| Move across touchscreen (5) |
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| Take move across touchscreen (5) |
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| You may do this in a dating app |
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| Use a credit card without tapping or inserting |
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| Make a decision on a dating app |
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| Show interest (or disinterest) on Tinder |
USA Today |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Filch |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2024 |
| Smartphone finger movement |
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| Steal; hit hard |
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| Lift, so to speak |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Oct 2024 |
| Steal and use a credit card? |
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| Steal |
USA Today |
11 Oct 2024 |
| To steal can mean a hard blow (5) |
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| What a thief may do is a hit |
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| Hit and pinch (5) |
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| ____ right, matching movement on Tinder |
The Telegraph Plusword |
19 Sep 2024 |
| Maybe remove dust from behind Saint Nick |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Sep 2024 |
| Action when paying with a card |
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| A blow on the side? |
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| Sweeping blow |
|
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| Steal strikingly? (5) |
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| Go through pictures on a dating app |
|
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| Shoplift |
Thomas Joseph |
30 May 2024 |
| Dating app finger movement? |
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| Sweeping blow |
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| It's a blow, having such a card encoded with information (5) |
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| Credit card action |
Commuter |
26 Mar 2024 |
| Use a credit or debit card, often |
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| Steal, commonly (5) |
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| Steal (inf) |
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| Steal (colloq) (5) |
|
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| Make a choice on HER |
USA Today |
21 Jan 2024 |
| Steal? |
|
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| Tinder gesture |
Commuter |
18 Jan 2024 |
| Hard sweeping blow |
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| Move a photo left or right on Tinder |
|
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| Steal |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Jan 2024 |
| Sharp critical remark |
|
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| Make a choice on Bumble |
USA Today |
21 Oct 2023 |
| Make a choice on Tinder |
USA Today |
11 Sep 2023 |
| Run through a credit card reader |
Newsday |
04 Sep 2023 |
| Steal |
Premier Sunday |
09 Jul 2023 |
| Run through a card reader |
USA Today |
11 Jan 2023 |
| Take without asking |
|
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| Tinder action? |
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| Use Tinder, say |
New York Times |
04 Sep 2022 |
| Debit card action |
USA Today |
24 Aug 2022 |
| Pinch gesture of smartphone user |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Jun 2022 |
| ___ right (Tinder app action) |
|
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| Choose or reject, on Tinder |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Credit card or Tinder action |
|
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| Steal |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Jul 2021 |
| Nick made in beginning to scissor cloth |
|
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| Make a choice on Tinder |
Universal |
09 May 2021 |
| Credit card motion |
LA Times Daily |
05 Apr 2021 |
| Credit card motion |
|
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| Nick's small cloth |
|
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| Make a choice on Tinder |
New York Times |
01 Nov 2020 |
| Take the wrong way |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Sep 2020 |
| Steal |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Aug 2020 |
| Tinder action |
USA Today |
06 Aug 2020 |
| Credit card action |
Wall Street Journal |
06 May 2020 |
| Criticism that might be made behind someone's back |
New York Times |
01 Apr 2020 |
| Credit card motion |
Universal |
16 Dec 2019 |
| Run through a credit card machine |
Newsday |
11 Nov 2019 |
| Run through a reader |
LA Times Daily |
26 Oct 2019 |
| Run through a reader |
|
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| Nick cleans top to bottom? The opposite |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Shoplift |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Aug 2019 |
| Dating app motion |
|
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| Steal, informally |
New York Times |
25 Feb 2019 |
| Steal |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jan 2019 |
| Steal, informally |
|
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| Run through a reader |
|
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| Pinch-hit |
|
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| Credit card action |
USA Today |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Run through, as a debit card |
Newsday |
23 Aug 2018 |
| Debit card motion |
|
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| Credit card action |
|
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| Rob, informally |
Newsday |
05 Dec 2017 |
| Filch quickly |
Universal |
01 Dec 2017 |
| Debit card action |
|
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| Debit card action |
LA Times Daily |
16 Nov 2017 |
| Steal |
Universal |
11 Nov 2017 |
| Run your card through a credit card machine |
|
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| One way to use a charge card |
Universal |
07 Jul 2017 |
| Steal; pass a card through a reader |
The Times Concise |
17 May 2017 |
| Shoplift, say |
USA Today |
11 Mar 2017 |
| Debit card action |
|
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| Filch quickly |
|
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| One way to use a charge card |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Credit card motion |
USA Today |
11 Nov 2016 |
| Use plastic, in away |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Sep 2016 |
| Process, as Visas |
Newsday |
28 Jul 2016 |
| Credit card action |
Universal |
08 May 2016 |
| Pass (card) through reader |
The Times Concise |
21 Apr 2016 |
| Steal |
|
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| Shoplift, say |
|
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| Use a debit card, perhaps |
Universal |
09 Dec 2015 |
| Run through, as a debit card |
Universal |
02 Jul 2015 |
| Nick cleans back to front |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Apr 2015 |
| Steal (slang) |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Apr 2015 |
| Run through, as a debit card |
|
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| Pass through a reader, as a debit card |
|
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| Use a debit card, perhaps |
|
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| Credit card action |
|
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| Steal, like the fox in "Dora the Explorer" |
|
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| Pilfer |
|
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| Take the wrong way? |
|
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| Use electronic device to commit theft |
|
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| Lift |
|
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| Slide through a card reader |
|
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| Credit-card action |
|
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| Rip off |
|
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| Run through a reader, as a debit card |
|
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| Cop |
|
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| Pilfer |
|
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| Run through, as a debit card |
|
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| Pilfer |
|
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| Pilfer |
|
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| Filch |
|
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| Take the wrong way |
|
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| Run through a reader, as a debit card |
|
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| Burgle |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Run through, as a debit card |
|
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| Take the wrong way? |
|
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| Use, as an Amex card |
|
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| Filch |
|
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| Slide through a card reader |
|
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| Credit card action |
|
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| Run through a credit card machine |
|
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| Use a credit card |
|
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| Make off with |
|
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| Make off with |
|
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| Use, as a credit card |
|
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| Activate a credit card |
|
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| Purloin |
|
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| Slide, as a credit card through a reader |
|
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| Cop |
|
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| Filch |
|
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| Pass through a reader, as a credit card |
|
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| Take illegally |
|
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| Pass through a reader, as a credit card |
|
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| Take illegally |
|
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| Apply a five-finger discount to |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Use, as a credit card |
|
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| Filch |
|
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| Card-reader instruction |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Lift |
|
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| Critical remark |
|
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| Rip off |
|
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| Scan, as a credit card |
|
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| Lift |
|
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| Lift |
|
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| Utilize a charge card |
|
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| Use a MetroCard |
|
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| Rip off |
|
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| Take without permission |
|
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| Make off with |
|
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| Steal, slangily |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Pilfer |
|
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| Filch |
|
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| Pinch |
|
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| See if a purchase can be charged |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Liberate, so to speak |
|
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| Filch |
|
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| Put through a machine, as a credit card |
|
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| Make off with |
|
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| Steal |
|
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| Rip off |
|
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| Appropriate |
|
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| Lift |
|
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| Purloin |
|
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| Snitch |
|
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| Glancing blow |
|
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| What second-story men do |
|
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| Filch, snatcherally |
|
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| What crooks do |
|
|
| Pick pockets |
|
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| Pinch |
|
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| Make off with |
|
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| Filch: Slang |
|
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| Heavy hit: Colloq. |
|
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| Plagiarize: Slang. |
|
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| Purloin: Slang. |
|
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| Pilfer: Slang. |
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