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Lisa Draws Crowds · Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Ahhhh!
August 2026
Saturday,
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Leonardo's famous curve, which walked out of a Paris museum on 21 August 1911 (5)
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Picture holder found in a service stairwell, minus its poplar panel (5)
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Drives, or what does the driving (6)
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Where the glazier did his time, in slang (3)
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Showing, as an exhibition (2)
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Oil on poplar, 77 by 53 cm, lifted out of 6 Across (8)
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She'd finally ___ home in January 1914, after a tour of Italy (4)
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Graffiti writer's signature (3)
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Boss's right hand, in brief (2)
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Astronomer who put Earth at the centre of everything (7)
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Hospital drip, for short (2)
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Summer lethargy: the guards assumed she was just at the photographer's (6)
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Desk clickers, or skirting-board squeakers (4)
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Break, like her 28 months off the wall (6)
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Blue, like many who queued to stare at a bare wall (3)
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Tyler who played Arwen in 'The Lord of the Rings' (3)
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Is poorly (4)
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Printer's unit, twice an en (2)
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Rocky outcrop (4)
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Sixth sense the guards could have used, briefly (3)
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Where she spent two years in a trunk in Paris, and where this grid ends (5, 6)
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White workman's overall that, legend has it, hid 1 Across on the way out (5)
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Sound from a single speaker (4)
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Clara Bow was the original ___ girl (2)
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Run with long, easy strides (4)
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The Belle Époque, for one (3)
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Biting, as wit (4)
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Staff, as a gallery's front desk (3)
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Cut into metal, as a printmaker's plate (8)
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Nuns, or Venus and Serena (7)
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Kind of heart valve Vesalius likened to a bishop's hat (6)
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Hours when the handyman strolled out, briefly (2)
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Place for reps and sets (3)
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Young Spanish painter hauled in for questioning in September 1911, then let go (7)
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Hawaiian paste pounded from taro (3)
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How things look, and the museum's looked dreadful that August (6)
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Museum closed that Monday, which was rather the point (6)
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Glazier who helped put her under glass, then walked off with her (5)
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Little island, like one in the Seine (5)
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115 years ___ today, a copyist found four iron pegs where she should have hung (3)
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Art history master's, in short (2)
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Six-pack unit, informally (2)
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No. 10 resident, initially (2)