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Inès Unbuttons Midnight · Saturday, 9 May 2026 · Ahhhh!
May 2026
Saturday,
9 May 2026
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Across
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Without changing a single word (8)
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Hollywood's city, briefly (2)
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German equivalent of 'Mr' (4)
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Serve that never comes back (3)
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At once, with a snap of the fingers (6)
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Evening dress taking a midnight stroll through the gallery (4)
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Part with, for a price (4)
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Figure study with no wardrobe budget (4)
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Concerning, in a memo heading (2)
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Fabric with a nap, even when the museum is awake (6)
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Cricket's contest before the first ball (4)
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Ballerina's skirt (4)
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Therefore (2)
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What a losing streak racks up, in sports shorthand (2)
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People who mistake your politeness for fascination (5)
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What a good host puts you at (4)
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Artist's inspiration — tonight, Inès with her mop (4)
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Strip for a model or a jet (6)
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Circle constant, roughly 3.14 (2)
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Arrival guesses that traffic keeps revising, briefly (4)
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The last word in many prayers (4)
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Showed the way (3)
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Glide across the ice (5)
Down
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Turn into gas (8)
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Greek letters whose capitals look like P (4)
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Kind-hearted (10)
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Innocent — or how the gallery looks after its paintings escape? (7)
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Monsters who found a second home in comment sections (6)
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Generators using permanent magnets for engine ignition (8)
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Indecent, as a joke (4)
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High fashion made to measure (7)
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A connecting link (5)
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___ amo: 'I love you', in Spanish (2)
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Blade that belongs in a boat (3)
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Believe, as an unlikely story (3)
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Took to court (4)
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A face you can take off (4)
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Is, after time has passed (3)
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School subject with a running theme, briefly (2)
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A squid's smokescreen (3)
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Spanish 'the', before a masculine noun (2)
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What @ is called aloud (2)
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Pronoun in 'Who, ___?' (2)