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Nosy Enid Blast · Saturday, 29 November 2025 · Ahhhh!
November 2025
Saturday,
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Across
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Basketball league whose finals Indian fans watch bleary-eyed at 6 a.m. IST (3)
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Rubies and emeralds, or the chocolate buttons Cadbury sold you by the tube (4)
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Flower, camera part, or the coloured ring that settles the 'brown or hazel' argument (4)
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Occur, as things tend to the moment you've made other plans (6)
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Yellow half of the nimbu-mirchi charm dangling off an auto's bumper (5)
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Tandoor-blistered bread that makes plain roti feel underdressed (4)
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Dash that is exactly half an em, if you're the sort who notices (2)
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What 'we'll see' usually means (2)
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Fix a match, the illegal way; or an offshore oil platform (3)
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Slips on a helmet; Oxford professors; or the bosses Bollywood keeps remaking films about (4)
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Apple's tablets, which toddlers learn to unlock before they learn to talk (5)
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Hexagonal apartment block where every flat is built by the tenants, in wax (9)
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Where a batter practises, or what your salary becomes after the taxman (3)
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Switched to the live side; or the leg side, to a cricket commentator (2)
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Pound, in an abbreviation that pinched its letters from the Latin 'libra' (2)
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Article you use before 'hour' but not before 'house', to the despair of everyone learning English (2)
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The Beatles' cry, or the menu item nobody in tech has ever clicked (4)
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What the bootcamp promised you'd be doing instead of attending stand-ups (6)
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The two letters every 2025 pitch deck needed on slide one (2)
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Amodei who runs Anthropic, or Argento who ran the horror (5)
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What a DJ spins, a spine slips, and 'Ultimate' players fling (4)
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James Dean was one without a cause; Star Wars had a whole alliance of them (5)
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Genoese basil sauce that is, if we're honest, Italian chutney (5)
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Egypt's gift of a river; 26-down is deeper, but this one is longer (4)
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McCullum who hit Test cricket's fastest hundred, then taught England to bat like it's always the last over (7)
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Target, or the word wedged between 'ready' and 'fire' (3)
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The question mark Canadians pronounce (2)
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Home with more bathrooms than residents, usually owned by a Bollywood villain (7)
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Place where cucumber water is a beverage and your phone is confiscated (3)
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Trendy; or where a batter would very much like to stay all afternoon (2)
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Fourteen lines Shakespeare wrote by hand; the Claude model that drafts them now (6)
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Story with a moral: the prodigal son, the good Samaritan, or a WhatsApp forward pretending to be one (7)
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Blyton who kept a generation of Indian kids up past bedtime with ginger beer and Famous Fives (4)
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Prying, like the neighbour aunty who knows your CTC before your parents do (4)
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Indian tax launched at a midnight session of Parliament in 2017 and printed on every bill since, briefly (3)
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How many Rings it takes to rule them all (3)
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Afternoon hours, or the tenant at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg (2)
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African river deep enough to drown a skyscraper; also a country, twice over (5)
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Explosion; a great time; or what the coach yells at the tailender to do in the last over (5)
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Machine Mac users pretend they've never touched, briefly (2)
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Kumble who took all ten Pakistani wickets in one Delhi innings in 1999 (4)
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Conceal; or the cowskin that becomes a cricket ball's leather (4)
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Trillionth prefix, Iyer the travel writer, or the tiniest Raspberry Pi (4)
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Keats wrote one to a nightingale; you wrote one to filter kaapi in your notes app (3)
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A small amount of chutney, or the dance move every uncle attempted at one wedding in 2017 (3)
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Fury, the kind an umpire's soft signal provokes in an entire nation (3)
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Exists; the little verb Hamlet was so worried about (2)