| Ultimately hilarious punning in cutting performance? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Cut and thrust (9) |
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| Guarantee bit of pork trimmed by butcher showing skill with blade |
The Times Cryptic |
16 Apr 2025 |
| Skill of fencing (9) |
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| Verbal sparring |
Mirror Classic |
13 Nov 2024 |
| Combat with blades |
The Times Concise |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Swashbuckling fun? (9) |
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| Skilful debate (9) |
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| Art of fencing, and a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2023 |
| Fencing moves |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Sep 2019 |
| News has spread about Zorro's skill |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Sep 2019 |
| Maintaining power, lord's way disrupted fencing |
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| Sort of wit with point primarily that's good for cut and thrust |
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| Duelling contest might provoke "words" |
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| Fencer's skill |
The Times Concise |
22 Sep 2016 |
| Art of a Samurai a joke, perhaps, under leadership of sissy |
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| Special tricks in writing -- and what they outperform? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Jul 2016 |
| Maybe foil usage in second part of clue |
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| Battling with foremost of setters and their art |
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| Spread out when receiving message — activity ‘foiled'? |
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| Solver's beginning to face setter's linguistic tricks in a duel? |
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| Fencing |
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| Fencing |
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| Dueling |
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| Parry and thrust. |
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| One of D'Artagnan's fortes. |
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