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Remarkable Sita Bose · Saturday, 6 December 2025 · Ahhhh!
December 2025
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Like a plot with dragons in the cabinet: wildly imaginative, not remotely realistic (11)
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Pom-pom of a garden flower, Mexico's national bloom (6)
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'The cheque is in the post', usually; or what you do till noon on a Sunday (3)
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Netaji who raised an army in Singapore, or the speakers your audiophile cousin swears by (4)
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Bull, to a matador in Seville (4)
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Auction site where somebody, right now, is bidding on a used toaster (4)
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What comes back when you shout into the Western Ghats, or Amazon's kitchen-counter listener (4)
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Slippery fish that gave 'electric' a whole new meaning (3)
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Tree behind acorns, whisky barrels and very old furniture (3)
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The sticky sweet stuff gulab jamuns and pancakes swim in (5)
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Grain in your atta; separated from the chaff in the idiom (5)
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The umpire's verdict when the finger goes up (3)
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Do as told, like a Labrador hearing 'sit' and a cat hearing nothing (4)
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Grand ___, the tennis majors; or shut a door in a huff (4)
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Oxford's big dictionary, briefly, where 'selfie' finally became official (3)
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Smallest bit of an element; split one and you get a very large headline (4)
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Windows, iOS or Android, for short: the thing that boots before anything else (2)
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Playground chase game, or the little label with the price on it (3)
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Zodiac lion, or the DiCaprio who finally got his Oscar (3)
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Team jersey, in football-speak; a first-aid one saves the day (3)
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Worthy of comment, like a hundred off 40 balls or a dosa that stays crisp (10)
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Sun-dried mud brick, or the company behind Photoshop and that PDF reader (5)
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Like a voice that seems to arrive through the nose (5)
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The people who 'say' everything, as in '___ say it will rain' (4)
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Pacino, Gore, or the metal in your kitchen foil, briefly (2)
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Rama's queen in the Ramayana, carried off to Lanka (4)
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'The Way' of Chinese philosophy; Lao Tzu's big idea (3)
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It hangs on the wall, sits on your phone, and works against you in the last over (5)
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Two letters now found in every startup pitch deck (2)
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Squeeze it over your chaat, or use it to describe a dud car (5)
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Deep-red root that turns your raita pink and your cutting board into a crime scene (8)
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Harvest; what you do to what you sow (4)
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Sailor's 'yes', or how a Scottish MP votes in favour (3)
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Microsoft's inbox, or the forecast from your resident pessimist (7)
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Camera-___: not one for selfies (3)
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Pixel-grid image type, as opposed to vector; why the zoomed-in logo looks like Lego (6)
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Greek letter that means 'micro' when it stands in front of a unit (2)
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Lime piece on the rim of your glass, or the golf club for escaping sand (5)
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Syllable chanted at the start of yoga class (2)
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What you do to the sambar before deciding it needs more salt (5)
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Grizzly or teddy, or a stock market heading downhill (4)
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Before-noon letters; also 'I ___ what I ___' (2)
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Cooked '___ Kiev' or ordered '___ carte' (3)
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Coconut for your hair, sesame for the dosa pan, crude for the economy (3)
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1,024 bytes, briefly; a floppy disk held about 1,440 of these (2)