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Specific John Lemon · Saturday, 25 October 2025 · Ahhhh!
October 2025
Saturday,
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Across
1.
Powerpuff Girls' verbose chimp villain (8)
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How Sri Lanka might be seen on a Cricket scoreboard (2)
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Fruit when split, red pearls inside (Hindi) (4)
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To make an agreement no longer valid (6)
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Open source web engine developed by Mozilla (5)
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French protestant logician Petrus who was killed in St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 (5)
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Pritha, Princess of the Yadavas (5)
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Sam ___man (3)
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Sudden strike, as in chess or life (6)
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__et Mignon (3)
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A Hyundai i10 or i20, for example, a _____back (5)
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Freudian drive for instant gratification (2)
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Hesitant filler in awkward pauses (2)
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Perhaps a more triumphant AHA form in certain contexts (3)
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Fashion's Klein (6)
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Slow climber in tropical tree canopies (4)
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Farmer who owned and worked his own land, often serving as a foot-soldier (6)
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Public relations spin doctor's domain (2)
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Preposition. Touching, supported by, attached to etc (2)
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Feeble excuse or a duck's gait (4)
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Canvas home for camping capers (4)
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San Francisco startup helping students cheat in their interviews (6)
Down
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Like the Seven in that classic Western (11)
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The first natural number (3)
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Scavenger in 'The Day of the ____' thriller (6)
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Early 2000s social network from Google (5)
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The first two letters of 4-down (2)
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West Bank city, in its arabic form meaning "fragrant" (7)
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Eggs a la biology class (3)
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Baroque ossuary mass grave close to the Czech border in Poland (5, 6)
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For fear that, in olde English worry (4)
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German grandma (3)
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Canadian home to Niagara's thundering falls (7)
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Student assistant for teaching in a Uni (2)
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Letters you'd find on a car in Bangalore (2)
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Greek nymph turned mountain (3)
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Heavy measure, like a metric ____ (3)
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1/24th of the mean solar day (4)
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Horsey jump in equestrian sports (5)
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French city famed for its sausages (4)
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Boring SMS response to sup? (2)
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Same as 32-across (4)
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If you're singing speed of sound? ___ that noise, and all that sound (3)
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Ego's first-person singular (2)