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Rockstar Rama Iyer · Saturday, 27 December 2025 · Ahhhh!
December 2025
Saturday,
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Across
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Company that put Solitaire in the office and an Xbox under the telly (9)
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Console whose Series naming requires its own walkthrough (4)
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Valve shop where your backlog grows faster than your download speed (5)
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Gear tooth, or Gears of War's Coalition of Ordered Governments, briefly (3)
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Two letters between your eyes and a virtual dragon (2)
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RPG teammate who takes the damage so the wizard can monologue (4)
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Low-level henchman with one voice line and three coins in his pocket (4)
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Where a zero health bar sends you in real life, briefly (2)
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Google gaming service whose final boss was Google (6)
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Red Dead pace between a walk and a gallop (4)
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Only dialogue option available to a Minecraft cow (3)
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Ramayana hero who strings Shiva's bow and wins Sita's hand (4)
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Latin self in ipse dixit, the ancient 'because I said so' (4)
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Surname shared by Indian batters Shreyas and Venkatesh (4)
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Home base for buses, trains, or a game merchant with suspiciously infinite stock (5)
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Silver in the language of La Casa de Papel (5)
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What ragdoll physics may bend the wrong way (3)
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The sun in Spanish, or the note after fa (3)
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Name shared by two neighbours, with an esports powerhouse to the south (5)
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Board game in which holding Australia becomes a personality trait (4)
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Nine on a Roman scoreboard (2)
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Centre-back squeezed into a football team sheet (2)
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Studio where cowboys ride and getaway cars wait (8)
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Kitchen-gadget brand that is also a tiny palindrome hiding in XBOX (3)
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Software beneath every app and every argument about Windows (2)
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Full-time, when the match stops but the group chat does not (2)
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Tellurium when the periodic table is saving space (2)
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Ranked-game number every losing teammate swears is broken (3)
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Audio and video, bundled into one cable-shop abbreviation (2)
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Rockstar sequel that made patience part of the gameplay (3,2)
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Game that trained a generation to pack a moving van (6)
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Coder's row of values, usually counted from zero (5)
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Picture quality promised by a pair of tiny letters (2)
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Menus, minimap and health bar, collectively and briefly (2)
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Xbox subscription that turns a hundred downloads into a monthly decision (8)
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Valve puzzler where the exit may be on the wall behind you (6)
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Bad sign that arrives just before the boss music (4)
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PalmPilot, or a kiss in public, briefly (3)
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Tennis unit, film location, or make ready (3)
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Tiny green projectile fired from a dinner plate (3)
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Korean electronics giant behind the screen flattering your frame rate (2)
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What the respawn timer finally tells you (2)
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The, before a masculine French noun (2)
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Green light disguised as two letters (2)