| Opening in the theater |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Oct 2025 |
| Sting held up crucifix to make a theatrical entrance (8) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
01 Jul 2025 |
| Crosspiece raised for horizontal opening (4,4) |
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| Secret exit in some magic shows |
USA Today |
11 May 2025 |
| Hatch set into a floor or ceiling flush with the surface (4-4) |
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| Emergency exit on stage (8) |
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| An opening with a catch to it? (8) |
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| Secret opening (8) |
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| Cross actor's words a setback for this bit of the stage? |
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| Hidden snare makes rat droop (8) |
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| Stage vertical exit (8) |
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| Coming up, cross character actor's entrance? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Feb 2025 |
| Opening in a floor a kind of spider (8) |
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| Opening in a floor - kind of spider (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
07 Jan 2025 |
| It could produce a drop in performance |
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| It can let actors down on stage |
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| Entrance flap (8) |
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| Cross section over hidden entrance (8) |
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| Hatch in the floor: the stage has a - |
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| Cross character in play cocked up entrance |
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| Emergency exit in the theatre (4,4) |
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| Magician's secret exit |
Newsday |
30 Oct 2024 |
| Poor rat upset about daughter finding opening in floor (8) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
20 Oct 2024 |
| If you fall through one, is there a catch in it? (8) |
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| Opening in a stage (8) |
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| Hinged hatch (8) |
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| Stage opening, perhaps |
New York Times |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Turned bar covering over component as means of access |
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| secret escape |
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| Magician's device |
Newsday |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Exit downstage (8) |
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| Hinged panel in a ceiling (8) |
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| Ceiling panel leading to a loft (8) |
Puzzler |
24 Feb 2024 |
| Floor hatch |
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| Cross-piece put back as cover for the hatchway (4,4) |
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| Recall screen with component and panel in floor? (4,4) |
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| Flap in a stage (8) |
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| Gin before opening that lets down actor? |
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| Hinged floor flap |
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| Secret exit, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Feature of a magician's stage |
LA Times Daily |
01 Dec 2022 |
| Review cross section making exit from stage |
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| Review cross section making exit from stage |
The Guardian Quiptic |
10 Oct 2022 |
| Prop that enabled Houdini to 'walk through' a brick wall |
New York Times |
11 Sep 2022 |
| Opening in a floor or ceiling |
The Times Concise |
14 Jun 2022 |
| Opening in floor |
The Times Concise |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Opening in a floor |
The Times Concise |
04 Feb 2022 |
| One of the things actors have to go through secretly in role reversal at The Gate? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
31 Dec 2021 |
| Hatch cross-section towards the left |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Feb 2021 |
| Vampire in corner -- cross raised |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Sep 2020 |
| Opening in the theater, maybe |
New York Times |
10 Nov 2019 |
| Opening in the theater, maybe |
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| Magician's exit |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Aug 2019 |
| *Secret stage exit |
The Washington Post |
07 Aug 2019 |
| *Secret stage exit |
LA Times Daily |
07 Aug 2019 |
| Hinged flap in cross-section, seen from below |
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| Entrance having rounded cross-section |
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| Potential rowing disaster reportedly, from which Redgrave maybe escaped? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Feb 2019 |
| *Secret stage exit |
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| Theatrical opening? |
The New Yorker |
18 Jun 2018 |
| Concealed exit from port road undergoing repairs |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Apr 2018 |
| One of the things actors have to go through secretly in role reversal at The Gate? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
30 Mar 2018 |
| Opening set in a stage or ceiling |
The Times Concise |
14 Nov 2017 |
| Might such an entrance catch one unawares? |
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| Cellar entrance, sometimes |
Family Time |
29 Jan 2017 |
| A cross section climbed to means of escape |
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| Hatch back cross-section |
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| Type of 25 cross, not entirely rejected |
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| Corner, note, or entrance to roof space? |
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| Unexpected exit, perhaps, being cross with role getting sent up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Apr 2016 |
| Possible exit men used after gin party? |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Feb 2016 |
| Rejected role, cross, having to go up a hole leading to the stage |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Jan 2016 |
| *Magician's secret exit |
LA Times Daily |
07 Dec 2015 |
| *Magician's secret exit |
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| Magician's secret, perhaps |
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| Way to make a magical exit |
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| Magician's way out, maybe |
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| Hidden exit |
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| Cause of an unexpected fall |
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| Hidden entrance |
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| Hidden entrance |
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| Location for a fall |
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| Hidden way out, maybe |
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| Hidden way out, maybe |
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| Way out for a magician |
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| Secret exit, maybe |
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| Secret exit, maybe |
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| It may be under the rug |
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| Magician's escape method |
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| Thing fallen through in a floor |
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| It may be under the rug |
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| Cellar entrance, maybe |
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| Magician's secret exit |
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| Cellar entrance, maybe |
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| Cellar entrance, maybe |
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| Secret exit, perhaps |
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| Fall location? |
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| Magician's secret exit |
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| Burlesque show exit? |
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| Cause of an unexpected fall |
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| Opening on a stage floor |
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| Opening on some stages |
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| Exit of a sort |
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| Floor exit |
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| Scruto, in theatre parlance. |
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| Feature of many a criminal mastermind's lair |
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| Egress of a sort. |
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