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Verne Looks Back · Saturday, 25 April 2026 · Ahhhh!
April 2026
Saturday,
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Across
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Parrot in a paintbox of feathers (5)
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Sphere, like the blue world shrinking behind us (3)
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Street entrance with a heavy round lid (7)
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'Tea ___ coffee?' (2)
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Climber with cascading clusters of lilac flowers (8)
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'& ___': the rest of the firm, briefly (2)
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Admitted past the velvet rope (2)
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One level of a wedding cake (4)
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'___-ching!' says the cartoon cash register (2)
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Have a snack, informally (4)
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Put a golf ball on its peg, with 'up' (4)
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Wildly ambitious project, named for a lunar attempt (8)
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Pacific, for one (5)
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Tea dispenser with a tap (3)
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Apollo's twin, lending her name to lunar missions (7)
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Give or take (2, 2)
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What you say when reading @ aloud (2)
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Leave in a hurry, with danger behind you (4)
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Ship's company in matching silver jumpsuits (4)
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What a postcard needs beyond 'third planet from the Sun' (7)
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The Space Age, for one (3)
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___ acid, a protein building block (5)
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Indian tax-return pros, briefly (3)
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Picnic guest that brings the whole colony (3)
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Sharpen, as a knife or an appetite (4)
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Space vehicle with a countdown to departure (6)
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Wide, as a grin or a boulevard (5)
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Belted hunter with a second career as a spacecraft (5)
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A little white one may spare someone's feelings (3)
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Apollo 8 photograph that made home the heavenly body (9)
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Cabin pane through which home gets smaller (6)
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Made streaky with a greasy thumb (7)
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Raspier after shouting over the engines (7)
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Ages and ages (4)
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Aware of, as in 'I'm ___ your little scheme' (4)
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The answer after all the adding (3)
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Prefix before violet or sonic (5)
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Long in the tooth (3)
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Letters before 'Cup' in English football (2)
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Uni subject covering algorithms, briefly (2)
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Rupees, on an old price tag (2)
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I, with company (2)