| Ties root around animal (8) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
02 Sep 2025 |
| Animal with short, scaly legs |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jun 2025 |
| Turtle-like creature |
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| Slow mover from moorland height: toe is broken (8) |
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| Herbivorous reptile (8) |
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| Land animal with a shell (8) |
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| Symbol of persistence, in a fable |
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| Terrestrial reptile with a shell (8) |
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| Exotic meat risotto cooked with the last of the mince (8) |
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| Herbivorous, terrestrial reptile with a heavy, dome-shaped shell (8) |
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| Slow-moving creature |
Mirror Classic |
23 Jan 2025 |
| Turtle coming from wrong French river (8) |
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| Name given to various types of land-dwelling turtles (8) |
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| It slowly moves to the centre to get up outside |
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| Taught us to listen to giant from Galapagos (8) |
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| Hare's rival taught us, so it's said (8) |
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| Herbivorous terrestrial reptile having a domeshaped shell (8) |
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| Slowcoach (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Hare's defeater |
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| It moves slowly to get up to the centre |
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| Hard-shelled animal (8) |
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| Galapagos Islands denizen |
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| Gold found in dry French river, a slow runner |
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| Animal raced round it? So unlikely (8) |
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| Unlikely winner of race tries too desperately |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Jul 2024 |
| One moving slowly to reform Tories |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
23 Jul 2024 |
| Slow animal tries, too bad (8) |
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| Taught us to say hare's racing partner (8) |
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| A slow-moving animal (8) |
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| Reptile with a shell |
USA Today |
11 Jun 2024 |
| Reptile with a heavy dome-shaped shell and clawed limbs (8) (8) |
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| Reptile with a heavy domed shell and clawed limbs (8) |
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| One so slow educated us, it's said (8) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
01 Jun 2024 |
| Lumbering shelled reptile in box H (8) |
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| Slow-moving creature with a shell (8) |
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| 22-Across opponent |
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| Cold-blooded individual shut in to make progress |
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| Exotic root introduced to new site for animal |
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| So I go into a trot at this point and meet another slow-mover (8) |
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| Reptile found in wrong river in France |
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| One making slow progress tries to move round the ring (8) |
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| The ___ and the Hare, fable by Aesop (8) |
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| Toothless "shelled" turtle cousin that can live over 100 years |
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| Hare's competition in a fable |
USA Today |
10 Jan 2024 |
| Slow mover getting to Tories somehow |
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| Shelled reptile |
The Times Concise |
28 Dec 2023 |
| Slow-moving reptile |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Animal turning to Tories |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Shelled reptile and winner of a fabled race that is one of the slowest animals in the world |
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| Galapagos Giant ___, large turtle relative that is endemic to the Galapagos Islands in the Eastern Pacific |
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| Aesop's winner of a race with a hare |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Nov 2022 |
| Slow mover |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Jul 2022 |
| A slowcoach |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Jun 2022 |
| Slow mover upsetting to Tories |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Oct 2021 |
| Hare's fabled opponent |
Universal |
06 Oct 2021 |
| Winner in race to reform Tories |
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| "__ Wins By a Hare": Bugs Bunny cartoon |
LA Times Daily |
13 Mar 2021 |
| '__ Wins By a Hare': Bugs Bunny cartoon |
The Washington Post |
13 Mar 2021 |
| Fabulous race-winner? One hesitates to stick one's neck out |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Jan 2021 |
| Shelled reptile |
The Times Concise |
09 Dec 2020 |
| Fabled beneficiary of a nap |
New York Times |
28 Nov 2020 |
| Fabled slowpoke |
LA Times Daily |
30 Sep 2020 |
| Reptile in store -- it desperately gulps oxygen |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 May 2020 |
| Hare's race opponent |
Newsday |
20 Jan 2020 |
| Slow mover, old, is tucking into sweet cake |
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| Reactionary old lefty one occasionally sees, bit of a plodder? |
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| Animal turning to Tories |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Apr 2019 |
| Slow-moving reptile |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Apr 2019 |
| Tories to worry one of those enjoying a slower pace of life |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Mar 2019 |
| Tories to reform: one's slow to move! |
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| Turtle-like reptile |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Oct 2018 |
| Mobile home owner? |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jul 2018 |
| Aesop's "The Hare and The ___" |
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| Proverbially slow-moving creature – perhaps I rest, too |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Mar 2018 |
| Pet in a shell |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Mar 2018 |
| Winner in a well-known upset |
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| Wrong French river for this reptile |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Nov 2017 |
| Slowcoach trained me and you, reportedly |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Nov 2017 |
| Slow mover in wrong French department |
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| Slow-moving reptile |
The Times Concise |
06 Sep 2017 |
| Surprise winner of fable |
LA Times Daily |
31 Jul 2017 |
| Surprise winner of fable |
The Washington Post |
31 Jul 2017 |
| Slow one is arriving in the end, after hill |
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| Surprise winner of fable |
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| Slow reptile |
The Times Concise |
13 Sep 2016 |
| This creature might turn to Tories |
Irish Times Simplex |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Lettuce-munching plodder |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Aug 2016 |
| Surprise victor of storydom |
The Washington Post |
12 Jun 2016 |
| Fabled race winner |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 May 2016 |
| Land reptile |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Nov 2015 |
| Winner of a fabled race |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Oct 2015 |
| Galapagos giant |
Universal |
05 May 2015 |
| Tie roots around a creature |
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| Galapagos giant |
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| Winner of a fabled race |
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| Wrong French river for this reptile |
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| Wrong French river for this reptile |
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| Slow mover |
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| See 96-Across |
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| Galápagos denizen |
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| Hare's fable opponent |
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| Galápagos denizen |
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| Fable winner |
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| Slow-moving Chicago band? |
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| Storied surprise winner |
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| Storied surprise winner |
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| Hare's race opponent |
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| Shelled animal |
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| Fabled race winner |
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| Hare racer |
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| Hare racer |
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| Hare racer |
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| Slow mover |
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| Hare's opponent of fable |
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| Slow mover |
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| Fabled come-from-behind race-winner |
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| Noted race winner |
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| Noted race winner |
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| Winner in a fabled upset |
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| Aesop race-winner |
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| Race winner of fable |
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| Hare's challenger |
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| Fabled winner |
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| Fabled winner |
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| Slowpoke |
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| Hare vanquisher |
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| Reason for a bad hare day? |
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| Slowpoke |
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| Fabled racer |
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| Hare's challenger |
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| Winner who finished next to last, in fable |
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| Winner in a well-known upset |
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| Winner of a fabled race |
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| Partner of 41-Down |
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| Slow mover upsetting to Tories |
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| Reptile in wrong French river |
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| Hare's opponent |
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| Slow mover |
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| Winner in a well-known upset |
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| Race winner of fable |
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| Winner by a hare? |
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| Slow racer |
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| Fabled race winner |
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| Shade of brown |
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| Victor in a fabled race |
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| Kind of beetle |
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| Terrapin |
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| Race winner |
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| Aesop character |
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| Fabled racer. |
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| Epitome of slowness. |
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| Reptile. |
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| Laggard. |
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| Chelonian. |
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