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Royal Ella Parsi · Saturday, 13 December 2025 · Ahhhh!
December 2025
Saturday,
13 December 2025
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Across
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Person who treats Saturday like a standup that never ends (10)
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Sound you make when the standup host says your name (2)
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Dalal Street's big board, briefly (3)
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Where the sun actually bothers to show up (4)
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Like a Bengal, or a hotel bill you will not look at twice (5)
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The Zoom tile you keep forgetting to mute (2)
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Explosive letters, or what the death over feels like (3)
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What you do to the whiteboard after a meeting that should have been a Slack (4)
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The little word that turns a menu into a negotiation (2)
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What the Western Ghats send back, or Amazon's cylinder that never sleeps (4)
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Him, or helium if the chemist is in a hurry (2)
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Compass point for people who find 'east' too vague (3)
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Travelling actors, or your group chat the night before a wedding (6)
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Cry before Ho in the Slumdog song, or a name that means victory (3)
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Fitzgerald who could swing a phone book (4)
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What a workaholic needs permission for; also a political one (5)
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The day this puzzle lands, and the one you swore you'd rest on (8)
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That is, if you still drop Latin into Slack (2)
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Extra hours the workaholic collects like stamps (2)
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Three letters you tap when the sambar boils over (3)
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State that treats Saturday as a personality (3)
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What you still ask Amma before booking those Goa tickets (10)
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Tang Clan's first word, or the physicist who quietly broke a law of nature (2)
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What you say when the crossing finally clicks (2)
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What Friday does to a workaholic's shoulders, or a speed at sea (4)
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How this constructor works, and how your Slack is supposed to (5)
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Chennai in May, or what a batter turns up in the death overs (4)
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French 'the', the one that makes Monde look official (2)
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Iowa, on a jumper; also the two letters in every IIT argument (2)
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The degree that pays for everyone else's MBA, briefly (2)
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Not here: the place you point at on a map and say 'weekend' (5)
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What the calendar invite pretends this 4 p.m. slot is (4)
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The royal one, or the startup that means 'I' (2)
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Your seat on the org chart, or what you take on a spicy thread (8)
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What you do when the brief says 'make it pop' and the clock says now (6)
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A little wood, and a little crossword regular meaning exactly that (4)
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Finnish city that visits American grids more often than conversations (4)
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Him, or helium if the chemist is in a hurry (2)
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What you lend a friend, or what a filter kaapi cup has one of (3)
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Community that gave Bombay its bakeries and its first motor cars (5)
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Bird with opinions, sitting next to Jai on purpose (3)
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What you need for the party, and what you do on a bad hand (4)
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How the House says yes, the opposite of a sulk (3)
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The laminated ritual a workaholic calls a process (3)
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Old Microsoft command line, or 'two' if you're counting tapas (3)
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The game of black and white stones, or what you yell when the Uber arrives (2)