| Flip (through) | LA Times Daily | 09 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | Thick finger | Universal | 24 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Pollical body part | The Times Specialist | 08 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Digit (5) | Puzzler | 03 Sep 2025 | 
          
            | Glove part | Newsday | 31 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Part of hand hidden by cloth umbrella (5) | Puzzler Cryptic | 07 Aug 2025 | 
          
            | Flick through (the pages of a book) (5) | Puzzler | 27 Jul 2025 | 
          
            | By its rule one may get a rough-and-ready 23 (E |  |  | 
          
            | Turn pages of book rapidly (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Digit known in anatomy as the pollex (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Bullhead or 'Miller's ___' (5) |  |  | 
          
            | The digit rule (5) |  |  | 
          
            | "As a rule of ___..." |  |  | 
          
            | A handy thing it is to nail a lightning sketch (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hand digit (5) | Mirror Classic | 02 Jun 2025 | 
          
            | Gardener's green - |  |  | 
          
            | Digit (5) | Puzzler | 25 May 2025 | 
          
            | Its technical name is pollex (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Patient, humble, showing thick hand digit (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Try to get a lift out of West Humberside (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hand digit | Mirror Classic | 03 May 2025 | 
          
            | Show disrespect: - your nose at them |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker or critic's need |  |  | 
          
            | Hand unit | Family Time | 13 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Hand appendage |  |  | 
          
            | Rule of ___ (general principle) | USA Today | 04 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | Opposable finger | Universal | 02 Apr 2025 | 
          
            | General ___ ___, circus performer portrayed by Sam Humphrey in the 2017 musical drama The Greatest Showman (3,5) |  |  | 
          
            | Tom is on hand to turn the pages (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's finger | Newsday | 25 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | Tom ___, fairy tale character (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit | The Times Concise | 10 Mar 2025 | 
          
            | Leaf (through pages) |  |  | 
          
            | Toms part of Northumbria (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Stubby digit (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Leaf through the pages with little Tom (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Which digit has one less bone than the others? (5) |  |  | 
          
            | One up for getting picked up by a stranger? |  |  | 
          
            | Flick through (the pages of a book) (5) | Puzzler | 13 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | Digit | The Telegraph Quick | 09 Feb 2025 | 
          
            | First finger |  |  | 
          
            | It's a handy thing to hitch-hike with (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Little Tom's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Tom's small part in the story (5) |  |  | 
          
            | The first digit of the human hand (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hand part with its own rule (5) | Mirror Cryptic | 30 Dec 2024 | 
          
            | Digit | Mirror Quick | 30 Dec 2024 | 
          
            | You have one of these on each hand (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Rule of ___ (practiced principle) |  |  | 
          
            | Tom, maybe, gets to turn over pages? (5) |  |  | 
          
            | PlusWord No 929 solution | The Telegraph Plusword | 06 Dec 2024 | 
          
            | Something handy, so inconclusive when mob loses heart (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Large digit on hand |  |  | 
          
            | Hand digit that is used to hitch a ride |  |  | 
          
            | The shortest, thickest digit of the hand (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch a ride with Tom (5) |  |  | 
          
            | A handy way to get a lift? (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit | USA Today | 07 Oct 2024 | 
          
            | 'Tom - - - - -', compact pittosporum variety with dark purple oval leaves (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Next to the fingers |  |  | 
          
            | Seek a lift with little Tom (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex(5) |  |  | 
          
            | First digit of the human hand |  |  | 
          
            | Part of hand hidden by cloth umbrella (5) | Puzzler Cryptic | 04 Sep 2024 | 
          
            | It's up for approval (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Flip through part of Northumberland (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Classic animator Chuck Jones, creator of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, also produced his own version of the Tom ... fairy tale |  |  | 
          
            | Start for tack or screw | Wall Street Journal | 26 Aug 2024 | 
          
            | Opposable part of hand (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Digit hit at the end becoming black | The Telegraph Toughie | 23 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | A green one is an asset in the nursery (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Word that can precede drive or print (5) |  |  | 
          
            | A digit on your hand (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhike: - a lift |  |  | 
          
            | Tom's digit? |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex of the human hand | The Times Concise | 11 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | "As a rule of ___..." |  |  | 
          
            | Flick through (the pages of a book) (5) | Puzzler | 02 Jun 2024 | 
          
            | Hitch in part of south Umbria |  |  | 
          
            | Something a hitchhiker sticks out | New York Times Mini | 15 May 2024 | 
          
            | Tom was little, but handy (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hand digit | Mirror Tea Time | 09 May 2024 | 
          
            | Hitch a ride in Northumberland? (5) |  |  | 
          
            | A handy thing it is to go through the leaves of a book (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's sign (5) | The Guardian Quick | 06 May 2024 | 
          
            | Request lift from Tom perhaps (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Rough guide as a rule (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Little Tom has two knuckles as opposed to three (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Digit with its own rule? | Mirror Cryptic | 08 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Hand part | Mirror Quick | 08 Apr 2024 | 
          
            | Initially thought hapless uncle might burn part of hand |  |  | 
          
            | Digit in account, humble (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Its rule has been found to be handy (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Look through a book, magazine or other printed publication quickly |  |  | 
          
            | Handy part under which there is domination (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Digit #1 | New York Times Mini | 18 Feb 2024 | 
          
            | Some mint humbugs on hand? (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Skippers do it through the book (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Try to get a lift with digit on the radial side (5) |  |  | 
          
            | The pollex (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Feature of a human hand whose technical name is pollex (5) |  |  | 
          
            | Digit (5) | Puzzler | 30 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Digit with its own rule | Mirror Cryptic | 08 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Digit | Mirror Quick | 08 Jan 2024 | 
          
            | Hand digit | Mirror Tea Time | 30 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Hitching tool | Thomas Joseph | 21 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's need | Commuter | 01 Dec 2023 | 
          
            | Scan, with ''through'' | Newsday | 09 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Handy source of opposition? | The Times Cryptic | 03 Nov 2023 | 
          
            | Hand digit that is used to hitch a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Hitching signal | Wall Street Journal | 07 Sep 2023 | 
          
            | Opposable digit | The Times Concise | 24 Aug 2023 | 
          
            | Hand digit used to signal an "Okay!" |  |  | 
          
            | Rule of ___ (guiding principle) |  |  | 
          
            | "Opposable" finger used to text, say |  |  | 
          
            | Human digit | The Telegraph Quick | 29 Jun 2023 | 
          
            | Something that may give one a lift from doctor on Thursday | The Times Cryptic | 20 Jun 2023 | 
          
            | Finger for hitchhiking | Newsday | 07 Jun 2023 | 
          
            | "Opposable" digit on the hand |  |  | 
          
            | Digit raised for a lift? |  |  | 
          
            | Printer in police station? One of two up for approval | The Times Cryptic | 03 May 2023 | 
          
            | Hand part | USA Today | 21 Apr 2023 | 
          
            | Thick digit | The Guardian Quick | 24 Mar 2023 | 
          
            | Try hitching up motorway, backpacking initially | The Telegraph Toughie | 17 Nov 2022 | 
          
            | Rule of ___ (practiced principle) |  |  | 
          
            | Rule of ___ |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit | Eugene Sheffer | 24 Oct 2022 | 
          
            | When it's up, it's OK | The Guardian Quick | 07 Oct 2022 | 
          
            | A digit | The Telegraph Quick | 02 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Signal for pick-me-up? | The Telegraph Cryptic | 14 Jul 2022 | 
          
            | Hitch (a lift) | The Times Concise | 17 Jun 2022 | 
          
            | Green ___ (natural at growing plants) |  |  | 
          
            | Short thick digit | Irish Times Simplex | 15 Apr 2022 | 
          
            | One of two "opposable" fingers |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit | Universal | 17 Dec 2021 | 
          
            | One may be opposed to request |  |  | 
          
            | Digit | The Telegraph Quick | 18 Nov 2021 | 
          
            | Gardener's "green" digit | Universal | 11 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | "Opposable" digit | LA Times Daily | 11 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | 'Opposable' digit | The Washington Post | 11 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | Short digit | Irish Times Simplex | 05 Oct 2021 | 
          
            | A green one is helpful in a garden | New York Times | 02 Aug 2021 | 
          
            | A body part that's front or back |  |  | 
          
            | Hand part | USA Today | 20 Apr 2021 | 
          
            | Rule of ___ (practiced principle) |  |  | 
          
            | Digit | The Telegraph Quick | 19 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Leaf through | The Telegraph Quick | 07 Mar 2021 | 
          
            | Area of Northumberland that's handy for suckers? |  |  | 
          
            | Short digit | Irish Times Simplex | 30 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Roadside digital display? | Jonesin | 26 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Initially try hitching using member breezily | The Telegraph Cryptic | 07 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Opposable digit | Wall Street Journal | 22 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Hitch-hike | The Telegraph Quick | 20 May 2020 | 
          
            | Part of a 'hang loose' sign | Jonesin | 19 May 2020 | 
          
            | Hitching aid | The Washington Post | 05 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Hitching aid | LA Times Daily | 05 Apr 2020 | 
          
            | Digit | The Times Concise | 27 Mar 2020 | 
          
            | Hitch lift | The Telegraph Quick | 25 Mar 2020 | 
          
            | Rule of __ | The Washington Post | 27 Nov 2019 | 
          
            | Rule of __ | LA Times Daily | 27 Nov 2019 | 
          
            | Digit given hit changing at the tip |  |  | 
          
            | Short, thick digit on the human hand |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex | The Times Specialist Sunday | 09 Jun 2019 | 
          
            | Hitch, as a ride | The Washington Post | 29 Apr 2019 | 
          
            | Hitch, as a ride | LA Times Daily | 29 Apr 2019 | 
          
            | Hitchhike | The Telegraph Quick | 24 Apr 2019 | 
          
            | "There are four fingers and a ___ on the hand" |  |  | 
          
            | Tiny Tom | Universal | 09 Apr 2019 | 
          
            | Texter's digit | Universal | 24 Mar 2019 | 
          
            | Request a free ride in Northumbria |  |  | 
          
            | Texter's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch, as a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Tiny Tom |  |  | 
          
            | First digit | New York Times | 29 Dec 2018 | 
          
            | Bad thing to hit with a hammer | New York Times | 25 Nov 2018 | 
          
            | Hitch (a lift) | The Times Concise | 09 Nov 2018 | 
          
            | Twiddled digit | Premier Sunday | 23 Sep 2018 | 
          
            | Digital aid in ridesharing? | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 21 Sep 2018 | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit | USA Today | 08 Sep 2018 | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit | Eugene Sheffer | 10 Aug 2018 | 
          
            | ''Tom ..., the piper's son'' (nursery rhyme) | Irish Times Simplex | 04 Jul 2018 | 
          
            | Green __ | The Washington Post | 27 Jun 2018 | 
          
            | Green __ | LA Times Daily | 27 Jun 2018 | 
          
            | Page that's next to index |  |  | 
          
            | Tom's digital fairy tale | Irish Times Simplex | 05 Jun 2018 | 
          
            | It's essential to snapping | Newsday | 08 Mar 2018 | 
          
            | Digit so short, then doctor required |  |  | 
          
            | Digital aid in ridesharing? |  |  | 
          
            | Bad thing to hit with a hammer |  |  | 
          
            | Green __ |  |  | 
          
            | First digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiking digit | The Telegraph Quick | 07 Dec 2017 | 
          
            | Hitch where corporation invests hospital billions |  |  | 
          
            | First digit | The Telegraph Quick | 08 Nov 2017 | 
          
            | Leaf disease carries nasty odour |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch | The Telegraph Quick | 25 Oct 2017 | 
          
            | Opposable digit | The Times Concise | 21 Aug 2017 | 
          
            | Large digit? | Jonesin | 01 Aug 2017 | 
          
            | Mitten part | The Washington Post | 27 Jun 2017 | 
          
            | Mitten part | LA Times Daily | 27 Jun 2017 | 
          
            | First digit hidden by mammoth umbrella |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch ride | The Telegraph Quick | 31 May 2017 | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit | LA Times Daily | 30 May 2017 | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit | The Washington Post | 30 May 2017 | 
          
            | Travel by getting free rides from motorists | The Telegraph General Knowledge | 29 Jan 2017 | 
          
            | Mitten part |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Something that turns up when you snap your fingers? | New York Times | 04 Dec 2016 | 
          
            | Read intensively about low noise during infectious disease |  |  | 
          
            | Pinch participant | Wall Street Journal | 06 Aug 2016 | 
          
            | Corporation keeping hospital billions in hitch | The Times Cryptic | 16 Jun 2016 | 
          
            | Signal for pick-me-up? |  |  | 
          
            | Green digit? | LA Times Daily | 12 Apr 2016 | 
          
            | Mitten part | Newsday | 23 Mar 2016 | 
          
            | Something that turns up when you snap your fingers? |  |  | 
          
            | Tom --, character in English folklore | The Telegraph General Knowledge | 20 Dec 2015 | 
          
            | One of two up for approval |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex | Eugene Sheffer | 17 Sep 2015 | 
          
            | For consumption get pulse taken in digit | The Telegraph Toughie | 26 Aug 2015 | 
          
            | Try to get free ride due to whiff in vacant taxicab | The Telegraph Toughie | 20 Mar 2015 | 
          
            | It's quite rough and ready, as a rule | The Telegraph Cryptic | 09 Mar 2015 | 
          
            | Indicate need for lift in Northumberland |  |  | 
          
            | Glove part | Premier Sunday | 08 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | Thing that points downward for a dog |  |  | 
          
            | Glove part |  |  | 
          
            | Change ending to hit, one's up for success? |  |  | 
          
            | Pong in empty twin-tub developing hitch |  |  | 
          
            | Try to catch a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Hitching aid |  |  | 
          
            | Finger raised on the shoulder |  |  | 
          
            | Mitten part |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit |  |  | 
          
            | Rolling Stones "Under My ___" |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's aid |  |  | 
          
            | A small Tom |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's aid |  |  | 
          
            | Tiny Tom |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's finger |  |  | 
          
            | Mitten part |  |  | 
          
            | Hand part |  |  | 
          
            | Big print maker |  |  | 
          
            | Hand digit |  |  | 
          
            | Try to catch, as a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Hitcher's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Twiddled digit |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit |  |  | 
          
            | A small Tom |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Snapping need |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch |  |  | 
          
            | Green ___ |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiking need |  |  | 
          
            | It may be useful in obtaining a 25-Down |  |  | 
          
            | Tack type |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhike |  |  | 
          
            | Seek a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhike |  |  | 
          
            | Critic or hitchhiker's need |  |  | 
          
            | Try for a ride |  |  | 
          
            | A gardener's might be green |  |  | 
          
            | It's opposable |  |  | 
          
            | Tom on display |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's need |  |  | 
          
            | Hitcher's digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's important digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's important digit |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex |  |  | 
          
            | Green ___ |  |  | 
          
            | Hitching thing |  |  | 
          
            | Hitch |  |  | 
          
            | Hand part |  |  | 
          
            | Green finger? |  |  | 
          
            | It may be useful in obtaining a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Opposable digit |  |  | 
          
            | Word before screw or tack |  |  | 
          
            | Green digit? |  |  | 
          
            | It's green, possibly |  |  | 
          
            | Try to catch a ride |  |  | 
          
            | Handy digit |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker identifier |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhike |  |  | 
          
            | Tom of the circus |  |  | 
          
            | Browse (through) |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's need |  |  | 
          
            | Tom  of folklore |  |  | 
          
            | Tom, the General |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex |  |  | 
          
            | Tiny Tom |  |  | 
          
            | Little Tom |  |  | 
          
            | "The Panda's ___," by 14 Across |  |  | 
          
            | Barnum's Tom |  |  | 
          
            | ___ a ride (hitchhike) |  |  | 
          
            | Kind of screw |  |  | 
          
            | Kind of screw or tack |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiking aid |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's stock in trade. |  |  | 
          
            | Queen Victoria entitled him "General" Tom. |  |  | 
          
            | Hitchhiker's prop. |  |  | 
          
            | Digit. |  |  | 
          
            | Pollex. |  |  | 
          
            | Solicit a ride. |  |  | 
          
            | Tom ___. |  |  | 
          
            | Road sign of a kind. |  |  | 
          
            | Use this in hiking. |  |  |