| Flinch or cringe with pain |
The Times Concise |
23 Oct 2025 |
| Grimace, get cold and freeze in the end |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Oct 2025 |
| Shrink or start back |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Oct 2025 |
| React to a cringe joke |
LA Times Mini |
23 Aug 2025 |
| React to a cringey joke |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Pained reaction |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Quail and cold wine is brought out |
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| Shrink back, hidden by shadow in cellar (5) |
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| Pull a face (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
21 Jul 2025 |
| Prevail upon Anglicans who grimace involuntarily? |
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| Shrink from wife in church (5) |
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| Flinch if initial chaser is found in drink (5) |
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| Shrink or start back (5) |
Puzzler Backwords |
07 May 2025 |
| Draw back from victory, clearly ending in the lead (5) |
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| 1999 1000 Guineas winner trained by Henry Cecil and ridden by Kieren Fallon (5) |
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| Flinch as top of cork found in Beaujolais? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
04 Mar 2025 |
| Start rotating the face of dice |
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| Contort the face in pain (5) |
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| Start victory over church (5) |
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| Flinch |
USA Today |
08 Jan 2025 |
| Reaction to a shot of Malort, maybe |
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| Draw back from cold entering port, maybe (5) |
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| Pain grimace (5) |
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| Grimace in pain |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Dec 2024 |
| React to a dreadful pun |
LA Times Mini |
04 Dec 2024 |
| Flinch a bit at Andrew in celebration (5) |
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| Start back in pain (5) |
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| Cringe at triumph over short Anglican (5) |
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| Cringe, recoil (5) |
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| Grimace when top of cork's found in drink (5) |
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| Start some homebrew in celebration |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Sep 2024 |
| Cringe with pain (5) |
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| Caught getting into booze, flinch |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Start, as in sudden pain |
The Telegraph Plusword |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Start to make Cheshire village crumble (5) |
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| Flinch from a sting |
Newsday |
09 Jul 2024 |
| Flinch |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2024 |
| Pained look of red maybe bored by Conservative |
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| Sharp inhalation or flinch expressing pain or shock (5) |
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| Shrink back |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
09 Jun 2024 |
| We go round in a hundred and don't enjoy it, apparently (5) |
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| Be in pain, having swallowed a cold drink (5) |
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| Women in Anglican church getting to flinch (5) |
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| Suddenly cringe about drink swallowing (5) |
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| Flinch |
Mirror Classic |
10 May 2024 |
| Grimace |
Universal |
30 Apr 2024 |
| Shrink back from alcoholic drink when about 100 (5) |
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| Land on empty crate and flinch |
|
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| Flinch at seeing carbon put in port (5) |
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| Flinch with pain |
Mirror Tea Time |
22 Mar 2024 |
| Shrink from carbon in Beaujolais? (5) |
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| Show one's pain at finding bit of cork in one's claret (5) |
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| Start from pain (5) |
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| Show pain |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Flinch |
Mirror Classic |
09 Feb 2024 |
| React to a 5-across, perhaps (5) |
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| Bored by picnics occasionally, you and I flinch |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Nov 2023 |
| React to a painfully bad pun |
Universal |
11 Oct 2023 |
| Grimace, catching cold in Bordeaux perhaps |
The Times Cryptic |
19 May 2023 |
| Show a bit of pain |
LA Times Daily |
17 Apr 2023 |
| Pained reaction |
Universal |
02 Dec 2022 |
| Recoil in pain |
Universal |
09 Oct 2022 |
| Recoil |
The Times Concise |
14 Aug 2022 |
| Flinch |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Jul 2022 |
| Show pain |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Shrink back |
Newsday |
24 Apr 2022 |
| Involuntary grimace |
The Times Concise |
20 Apr 2022 |
| Recoil |
Newsday |
25 Mar 2022 |
| Cringe |
USA Today |
22 Mar 2022 |
| Slight grimace |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Feb 2022 |
| Slight grimace |
USA Today |
06 Jan 2022 |
| Recoil, finding head of caterpillar in drink |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Nov 2021 |
| Pained expression |
Universal |
07 Nov 2021 |
| Betray pain |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Oct 2021 |
| Flinch from pain |
|
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| React to pain |
Universal |
31 May 2021 |
| Shrink from cold, tucking into some alcohol |
|
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| Show a bit of pain |
LA Times Daily |
04 Dec 2020 |
| Show a bit of pain |
The Washington Post |
04 Dec 2020 |
| Shrink back |
Premier Sunday |
22 Nov 2020 |
| React to a bit of pain |
Family Time |
12 Oct 2020 |
| Flinch |
Universal |
30 Sep 2020 |
| Cringe |
The Washington Post Sunday |
06 Sep 2020 |
| React to a cringeworthy comment |
Universal |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Cringe, while in pain |
|
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| Cringe, while in pain |
|
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| Grimace |
Universal |
28 Aug 2019 |
| Recoil |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Jul 2019 |
| Show pain |
Thomas Joseph |
17 May 2019 |
| Secure ends of cable and start back |
|
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| Facial reaction to pain |
New York Times |
11 Mar 2019 |
| Cringe |
The Guardian Speedy |
24 Feb 2019 |
| React to an injection, perhaps |
USA Today |
14 Jan 2019 |
| React to an injection, perhaps |
|
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| Facial reaction to pain |
|
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| Grimace |
|
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| Recoil |
|
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| Get chancellor of the exchequer to pull a face |
|
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| Recoil from pain |
Newsday |
10 Sep 2018 |
| Make face showing pain |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Aug 2018 |
| Start with a victory before the City comeback? |
|
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| Flinch from overflow in cesspit |
|
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| Betray pain |
Universal |
02 Jul 2018 |
| Draw back from danger |
Newsday |
20 May 2018 |
| Flinch |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Apr 2018 |
| Betray pain |
|
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| Grimace |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Nov 2017 |
| Pained expression |
Newsday |
17 Jul 2017 |
| React to pain |
LA Times Daily |
09 May 2017 |
| React to pain |
The Washington Post |
09 May 2017 |
| Flinch |
Newsday |
23 Apr 2017 |
| Pun reaction, possibly |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
14 Apr 2017 |
| Shrink or start |
Newsday |
01 Apr 2017 |
| React to an injection, maybe |
USA Today |
30 Mar 2017 |
| Cringe, while in pain |
|
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| Pained reaction |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Mar 2017 |
| Cringe |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Feb 2017 |
| Cab destination? |
New York Times |
05 Feb 2017 |
| Recoil in pain |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Jan 2017 |
| Flinch |
|
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| React to an injection, maybe |
|
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| Cab destination? |
|
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| React to pain |
|
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| Pained reaction |
LA Times Daily |
13 Dec 2016 |
| React to feeling pain |
Family Time |
12 Dec 2016 |
| Shrink back |
Newsday |
10 Nov 2016 |
| Injection reaction, perhaps |
USA Today |
09 Nov 2016 |
| Show sharp reaction to profits, they say |
|
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| Pained expression |
USA Today |
03 Aug 2016 |
| React to a sour note |
Newsday |
07 Jul 2016 |
| Flinch, as from pain |
Family Time |
24 Jan 2016 |
| Flinch of distress |
Universal |
17 Jan 2016 |
| Flinch of distress |
|
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| Pained expression |
|
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| React to something unpleasant, perhaps |
The Washington Post |
25 Dec 2015 |
| Draw back in pain |
USA Today |
17 Dec 2015 |
| React to a sour note |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Oct 2015 |
| Involuntary grimace |
The Times Concise |
29 Sep 2015 |
| Tackle missing hours finding energy to make start |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Sep 2015 |
| React to a pun |
Universal |
05 Aug 2015 |
| Make a face in following centre-forward from Clare |
Irish Times Crosaire |
28 Jul 2015 |
| Draw back from alcoholic drink, having caught cold |
|
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| React, as to a bad pun |
USA Today |
24 Jun 2015 |
| Recoil a bit |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Jun 2015 |
| React to a sour note |
|
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| Draw back in pain |
|
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| React, as to a bad pun |
|
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| React to a pun |
|
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| React to a shot |
|
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| Response to a gotcha |
|
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| Flinch |
|
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| Flinch |
|
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| Recoil |
|
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| Cringe |
|
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| Pain result |
|
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| Flinch, as from pain |
|
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| Quick start |
|
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| Betray an igry feeling, say |
|
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| Look that may accompany a groan |
|
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| React to a bad pun |
|
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| Respond to a slap |
|
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| Get the better of church shrink |
|
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| Cringe |
|
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| Pinch reaction, perhaps |
|
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| Pained expression |
|
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| Pained expression |
|
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| React to a shot, say |
|
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| React to a shot, say |
|
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| Flinch |
|
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| Pain result |
|
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| React to a really bad pun |
|
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| Recoil |
|
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| Recoil from pain |
|
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| Pained reaction |
|
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| Show distress |
|
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| Pained reaction |
|
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| Show pain |
|
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| Shrink back |
|
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| Draw back in pain |
|
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| Smart response |
|
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| Smart response |
|
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| React to pain |
|
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| Reaction to a friend's mistake |
|
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| Flinch, as from pain |
|
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| Shrink back |
|
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| Pained reaction |
|
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| Recoil |
|
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| Recoil from pain |
|
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| Flinch |
|
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| Recoil |
|
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| Betray pain |
|
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| Draw back |
|
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| Draw back |
|
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| React to a really bad pun |
|
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| Pained expression |
|
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| React, as to a pun |
|
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| Flinch |
|
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| Pained response |
|
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| Flinch in pain |
|
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| Grimace |
|
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| React to a bad joke, perhaps |
|
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| Recoil in pain |
|
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| React to a shot |
|
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| Ouch! expression |
|
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| Possible reaction to a bad pun |
|
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| Start |
|
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| React nervously |
|
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| React to a sting |
|
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| Show pain |
|
|
| React to a bad joke, perhaps |
|
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| React to a sting |
|
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| Flinch |
|
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| Recoil |
|
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| Blench or flinch |
|
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| Cringe |
|
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| Quail |
|
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| Show pain |
|
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| Shy |
|
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| Shrink |
|
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| React to a pin prick |
|
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| Shrink back |
|
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| React to bad news |
|
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| Shrink from. |
|
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| Recoil. |
|
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| Flinch. |
|
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| Recoil in a way. |
|
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| Shrink. |
|
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| Recoil in pain |
|
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| React to something cringeworthy |
|
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