| Constrict giant, we hear (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Make snug |
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| Get thin exercising and pull the belt in a notch (7) |
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| Cinch in a belt |
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| Make fast giant report (7) |
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| Superman reportedly getting cramp? (7) |
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| Remove slackness (7) |
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| Strengthen (hold) |
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| Rob Gronkowski, e.g. |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jan 2025 |
| Make more secure near unfinished end (7) |
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| Fix more firmly (7) |
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| Make less loose |
The Times Concise |
26 Nov 2024 |
| Beef up heavyweight, say |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Get rid of any slackness (7) |
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| Make more secure |
The Sun Mini |
19 Oct 2024 |
| Screw up Superman for the audience |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Oct 2024 |
| Take up the slack ___ it's a way to get thin (7) |
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| Secure giant, say |
Mirror Cryptic |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Make fast |
Mirror Quick |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Titan called on to stretch (7) |
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| Knot half a score to make tauter (7) |
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| Heard to tie ten and put on the squeeze (7) |
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| Make fast |
Mirror Quick |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Secure giant, say (7) |
Mirror Cryptic |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Make less loose |
Universal |
05 Aug 2024 |
| Get rid of some slack (7) |
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| A stretcher could be used to do this (7) |
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| Close more firmly (7) |
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| Adjust with spanner |
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| Increase tension (7) |
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| Tense thug cutting unionist up gate-crashes do up north |
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| Get hint perhaps and increase tension (7) |
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| Tauten |
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| The giant said "Shut up", firmly (7) |
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| Tense gent hit out |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Mar 2024 |
| Do up nut (7) |
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| Intoxicated men lose their head when they apply the spanner (7) |
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| Squeeze harder (7) |
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| Reduce the slackness! Get thin like this! (7) |
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| Said to draw a number but not draw it loosely (7) |
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| To increase the tension is a different way to get thin! (7) |
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| Stop being loose a drunken chicken reportedly (7) |
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| Get hint about contract |
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| Constrict noisy god (7) |
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| Game hard tenor and nurse make more strict |
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| Screw (lid) securely |
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| Squeeze, fix more firmly |
Puzzler Backwords |
11 Dec 2023 |
| Sounds like giant screw up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Screw up |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Constrict |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Jun 2023 |
| Secure satellite broadcast |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 Apr 2023 |
| Turn clockwise, as a screw |
New York Times |
12 Dec 2022 |
| Colossus reportedly becoming tense |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Oct 2022 |
| Make less loose |
USA Today |
11 Aug 2022 |
| Constrict |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Make more secure |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Apr 2022 |
| Become more tense |
The Times Concise |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Contract, massive thing by the sound of it |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Sep 2021 |
| Squeeze gallons into the tin, furiously |
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| Pick up huge contract |
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| Make more restrictive |
USA Today |
21 May 2021 |
| Turn right, say |
New York Times |
08 May 2021 |
| Use a torque wrench |
Canadiana |
03 May 2021 |
| Reportedly giant is tense |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Jul 2020 |
| Superman's pronounced cramp |
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| Make harder to undo |
The Times Concise |
31 Dec 2019 |
| Brace for match, number announced |
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| Constrict |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Aug 2019 |
| Colossus reportedly becoming tense |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Aug 2019 |
| Stiffen |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Feb 2019 |
| Heavyweight reportedly gets purse |
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| By the sound of it, giant close |
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| Make less loose |
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| Make more constrictive |
The Washington Post Sunday |
08 Apr 2018 |
| Sound of giant to be more constrained |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Feb 2018 |
| Strong person, we hear, to become tense |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Jan 2018 |
| Make more taut |
The Times Concise |
15 Sep 2017 |
| Wind up Cronus, maybe one might say |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Nov 2016 |
| Squeeze |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Feb 2016 |
| Strange thing to keep note on brace |
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| Make tenser |
The Times Concise |
14 Aug 2015 |
| Turn to the right, say? |
LA Times Daily |
21 May 2015 |
| For the audience, draw a number -- get tense |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Jan 2015 |
| Turn to the right, say? |
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| Bolster, as security |
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| Constrict |
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| Turn a vise handle clockwise |
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| Secure, in a way |
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| Secure, in a way |
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| Wind up |
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| Use a clamp, say |
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| Turn right, maybe |
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| Use a clamp, say |
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| Make less loose |
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| Constrain |
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| Grow tense |
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