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Selvi Bunks School · Saturday, 25 July 2026 · Ahhhh!
July 2026
Saturday,
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Do it again, as the front rows demand after the hit song (6)
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On top of that (4)
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Eggs in the biology homework Selvi tore up for confetti (3)
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What nobody is on at the snack counter (4)
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4 ___: when the release-day fan show starts (2)
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Dripping, like a poster after its milk bath (3)
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What fans do the moment the star walks in (6)
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Pulled in, as a crowd (4)
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Haircut that stops at the jaw (3)
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Someone always loses one in the crush at the booking window (4)
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Rice-and-lentil crepe in a tiffin box that never reached school (4)
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Word that flashes up and starts a stampede for the canteen (8)
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It races as the big entry scene begins (5)
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'The Catcher in the ___' (3)
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'___ last!', someone yells as the curtain rises (2)
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Mum, who thinks Selvi is safely in class (2)
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'Land ___!' (2)
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Selvi's shrug: '___ what if it's a school day?' (2)
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Hawaiian flower garland (3)
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It's flung at the screen from the front benches (4)
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Title in giant capitals just before the name everyone came for (9)
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Greek letter after zeta (3)
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Too stunned to move, as the hero strides in slow motion (6)
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Like a mob that refuses to sit down (5)
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'Best film ___!', declares the opening-day audience (4)
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Tops of heads, some freshly shaved for a vow (5)
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They run before the film, to loud groans (3)
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What the pre-dawn queue is for (6)
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Finished off, as a plate of bajji (3)
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Fried triangle worth elbowing the whole town for at the break (6)
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Sacred syllable that opens many a mantra (2)
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Sound of someone who has forgotten their seat number (2)
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Overhead, like the projector's dusty beam (5)
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Two fingers, one mouth, maximum noise (7)
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Upper tier of a picture hall, or Juliet's perch (7)
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Kamala Talkies has only ___ screen, so the town packs into the same show (3)
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Parched, like a throat that has cheered for three hours (3)
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Forty feet of plywood hero, garlanded at dawn (6)
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The black-and-white ___ of cinema (3)
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Old hat (5)
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Soybean paste in a Japanese soup (4)
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Wave's word (2)
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Be human, according to Pope (3)
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Kitten, grown up (3)
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Raw material from a mine (3)
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Dad, who bunked school for the same idol in his day (2)
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'___ be continued', teases the end card (2)