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Dechamma Spins Gold · Saturday, 12 September 2026 · Ahhhh!
September 2026
Saturday,
12 September 2026
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Gold spun out of coffee-blossom comb, or a sweetheart (5)
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Kind of chart that always gets sliced (3)
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Like the spare box waiting for bees to move in (6)
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Dechamma's hour for lifting the lid, with the foragers out (4)
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'Leave it to ___!' (2)
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Part and ___ (6)
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Novice, like the beekeeper who forgets her veil (4)
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Court surface at Roland Garros (4)
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Arabian ___, west of the Coorg hills (3)
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Word with a precise meaning (4)
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Figure-of-eight report giving the flowers' bearing and distance (6,5)
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'___ last!' (2)
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'Look!', in the King James Bible (2)
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Sound before an unsure answer (2)
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One-star reviewer of absolutely everything (5)
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Mead's hoppier cousin at the pub (3)
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Freud's bundle of urges (2)
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Dechamma's puffing tin, which masks the bees' alarm scent (6)
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Wearing out too much, like a forager in her sixth week (10)
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Not those (5)
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Posts, as a jar to an aunt in Bengaluru (5)
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Sing with closed lips, as an apiary seems to all afternoon (3)
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Number of queens a colony will put up with (3)
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Greek letter whose lowercase form looks like a v (2)
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Catch sight of, as a scout bee does a fresh bloom (4)
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Vintage, on a wine label (4)
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Yellow dust packed into baskets on a worker's hind legs (6)
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Innermost of the four moons Galileo spotted around Jupiter (2)
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Catalyst a field bee adds to split table sugar in two (6)
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Stingless male bee, or the flying camera over a wedding (5)
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Olympian drink that bees sip from flowers (6)
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Price label on a jar at the market (3)
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Rainbow's shape (3)
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Runaway colony hanging from the jackfruit tree while its scouts house-hunt (5)
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Have lunch (3)
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Sunny clearings in a forest (6)
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Item under the auctioneer's hammer (3)
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Layer of skin beneath the surface (6)
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Home with hexagonal rooms (4)
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Shop-sign abbreviation before a founding date (3)
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Related, like the sisters of a colony (4)
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Give for a while, as a veil to a nervous visitor (4)
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Tiny units of work, in physics (4)
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What a mine gives up (3)
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Surprised cry, or a zero in 007 (2)
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Subject-line word before 'your order' (2)