| Vague |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Oct 2025 |
| Not easy to catch Newton in college on organ |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Obscure, uncertain (7) |
Mirror Classic |
28 Sep 2025 |
| Not evident |
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| Obscure as a foreign vault (7) |
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| Dubious type of energy upper classes promoted (7) |
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| Vague relative has a right |
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| Abstruse (7) |
Puzzler |
18 May 2025 |
| Not well explained (NUCLEAR anagram) (7) |
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| Ambiguous |
Mirror Tea Time |
07 May 2025 |
| Hazy but essentially raunchy old king |
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| Relative to artist, returning is doubtful (7) |
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| Confused relative, a Republican |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Hazy |
USA Today |
14 Apr 2025 |
| Nuclear outcome isn't at all plain (7) |
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| Not sure about an ulcer problem (7) |
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| Not very lucid stuff about an ulcer. (7) |
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| Ambiguous about nuclear fiction (7) |
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| Dim family member has not finished with listener (7) |
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| Relative has a right to be ambiguous (7) |
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| Vague |
USA Today |
12 Jan 2025 |
| Cryptic clue ran wild (7) |
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| Uncle Arthur is mostly obscure (7) |
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| Ill-defined (NUCLEAR anagram) (7) |
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| Murky, cloudy (7) |
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| Obscure, uncertain |
Mirror Classic |
16 Sep 2024 |
| Confused, blurry (7) |
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| Vague family member stripped bark |
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| Indistinct or inexplicit (7) |
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| Obscure relative taking artist aback (7) |
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| Uncle, a third of a dollar is a bit obscure! (7) |
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| Not plain (7) |
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| Faint - when relative backing artist? (7) |
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| Uncle Arthur is shortly vague and indistinct. (7) |
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| Family member with a right to be vague |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
27 May 2024 |
| Relative on a river that's murky (7) |
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| Obscure relative backing artist (7) |
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| Relative on a road, initially, that's foggy |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
22 Apr 2024 |
| Indistinct |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Apr 2024 |
| Obscure relative seen by a river |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Apr 2024 |
| Vague, ambiguous |
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| Not precise, dim or vague (7) |
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| Hazy as to whether it's a non-consomme (7) |
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| Ambiguous, hazy (7) |
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| Vague uncle all right at first (7) |
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| Vague relative, one on right (7) |
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| Nuclear (anag)(7) |
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| Obscure or uncertain |
Mirror Classic |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Uncle Arthur's day off? It isn't apparent |
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| It was uncertain whether Sam had a right (7) |
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| Vague, but the pawnbroker starts to abuse rights (7) |
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| Dim kind of family initially delayed |
The Guardian Cryptic |
14 Feb 2024 |
| Confused relative alongside a river (7) |
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| Pawnbroker has a right to it, but it's not obvious (7) |
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| Filthier (7) |
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| Nuclear (anag) (7) |
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| Sam, for example, a Republican? That's iffy (7) |
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| Sam, for example, a Republican? That's iffy |
The Guardian Cryptic |
22 Dec 2023 |
| Obscure, uncertain |
Mirror Classic |
22 Dec 2023 |
| Obscure French article about nonsense writer (7) |
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| Indistinct |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Oct 2023 |
| Ill-defined |
The Guardian Quick |
21 Sep 2023 |
| Confusing relation by author losing heart |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Aug 2023 |
| Ambiguous rule can get broken |
The Guardian Cryptic |
04 Aug 2023 |
| Family member with cataract, essentially it's foggy |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Aug 2023 |
| Vague, obscure |
The Times Concise |
10 Jul 2023 |
| Opaque |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Jun 2023 |
| Ambiguous |
Wall Street Journal |
05 May 2023 |
| Vague |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Dec 2022 |
| Obscure relative seen by a river |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Aug 2022 |
| Relative area reduced by half? Not sure |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Aug 2022 |
| You might say Bob on a drop of retsina gets hazy |
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| Not easy to make out relative by a river |
The Times Cryptic |
18 May 2022 |
| Relative by a river, hazy |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Vague |
USA Today |
01 Nov 2021 |
| Kin are mostly confused |
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| Needing explaining |
Newsday |
02 Sep 2021 |
| Doubtful pawnbroker, right to ring American |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Jul 2021 |
| Cloudy nuclear explosion |
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| Not obvious |
The Times Concise |
14 May 2021 |
| Relation gets a final letter that's cryptic |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Mar 2021 |
| Not easy to see or hear |
The Times Concise |
08 Sep 2020 |
| “Whereas an ambiguous statement may be vague by accident or intent, an equivocal one is calculatedly ____” (Bill Bryson, Troublesome Words) |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
02 Aug 2020 |
| Obscure Sixties spy agency facing heartless state |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Hazy sort of explosion nitrogen's put down |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 May 2020 |
| Vague |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 May 2020 |
| Obscure relative has ward but no wife or daughter |
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| Pawnbroker over a ring, initially doubtful |
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| Sam, perhaps on a roll initially, can't make out |
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| Shady relative joining leader of anarchist resistance |
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| Like a cloud that's atomic, with nitrogen falling |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Nov 2019 |
| Indistinct |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Nov 2019 |
| Obscure relative by a river |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Nov 2019 |
| Hazy |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Jun 2019 |
| Not easy to see or understand |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 May 2019 |
| Vague |
Premier Sunday |
10 Mar 2019 |
| Relation with a right to be less than explicit |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Sep 2018 |
| Vague |
Jonesin |
29 May 2018 |
| Relative area not half in doubt |
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| Hazy leading role for uranium in 30 |
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| Obscure type of weapon with elevated level of uranium |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Dec 2017 |
| Confused king supports central council |
|
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| Not easy to make out relative, a Republican |
|
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| Obscure Arab supports relative |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Dec 2016 |
| Indistinct |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Nov 2016 |
| Relative brought up Egyptian god that's obscure |
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| Revise a clue about new king or queen needing clarification |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Sep 2016 |
| Male relation, oddly airy and vague |
|
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| Ill-defined or not easily understood |
Irish Times Simplex |
27 Apr 2016 |
| Not 3 regarding some power needing movement of uranium |
|
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| Obscure relation meeting a king or queen |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Feb 2016 |
| One of the family assumes a right which is questionable |
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| Not easy to see |
The Times Concise |
18 Dec 2015 |
| Poorly described |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Nov 2015 |
| Difficult to understand relative with what's inside ears |
|
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| Nuclear output up in the air |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Jul 2015 |
| Ambiguous |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2015 |
| Doubtful, pawnbroker given a ring initially |
|
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| Mumbled |
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| Ambiguous |
|
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| Vague family member with hard heart |
|
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| Fuzzy |
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| Opaque |
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| Not properly explained |
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| Hazy |
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| Vague |
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| Vague |
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| Ill-defined |
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| Like mud? |
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| Fuzzy |
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| Not intelligible |
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| Ambiguous |
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| Yet to be determined |
|
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| Fuzzy |
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| Muddied |
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| Hazy |
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| Cloudy |
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| Confused |
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| Obscure |
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| Ambiguous |
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| Indistinct. |
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