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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% FORMERLY Type playing lyre in times gone by (8) The Telegraph Cryptic Oct 21, 2025
3% STALL Play for time (5) (5) Mirror Classic Nov 6, 2025
3% AGO Gone (3) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Oct 30, 2025
3% ZITHER Lyre-like stringed instrument (6) Puzzler Backwords Oct 26, 2025
3% SCAT "Be gone!" (4) Eugene Sheffer Sep 17, 2025
3% ONCE Regularly connected in times gone by (4) The Times Quick Cryptic Aug 19, 2025
2% CRIMENOVELS "Gone Girl" and "Then She Was Gone," for two (11) USA Today Nov 11, 2025
2% POOF Magician's "And it's gone!" word (4)
2% STREAKED Was gone in a flash? (8) New York Times Nov 9, 2025
2% SCARLETTOHARA The protagonist in Gone with the Wind (8,5) (13) The Guardian Weekend Nov 8, 2025

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