AHHHH!
Filomena Faints Beautifully
Saturday,
10 October 2026
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Across
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Fake moustache and borrowed uniform, to stroll past a doorman (8)
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Wander, as your phone does on a trip abroad (4)
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___ history: stories passed down over Sunday lunch (4)
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'Just ___ last job': famous last words in every caper film (3)
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Free-for-all with fists and flying chairs (5)
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___ mein, chow mein's cousin, tossed in sauce (2)
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Bank strongroom that film robbers love to tunnel into (5)
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Star soprano who dies gorgeously every night, then takes a bow (4)
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A footballer's agony after the lightest touch, perhaps (3)
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Beach stuff you're still shaking out of your shoes a week later (4)
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Title meaning 'commander' in Arabic (4)
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Silica ___: the 'do not eat' sachet in a new shoebox (3)
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Aimed high, like thieves eyeing the Bellagio (7)
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Red beams around the safe, rehearsed with wool strung across the living room (6)
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'___'re in,' says the hacker at the keyboard, right on cue (2)
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Gnawed (at), like a nagging doubt (3)
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Big job at the heart of Ocean's Eleven, Dhoom and La Casa de Papel (5)
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Shafts of sunlight, or flat-bodied shark cousins gliding past the aquarium glass (4)
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Knowing cry, round at both ends (3)
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Parties, or hairstyles, informally (3)
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Clean ___: what every gang promises and few pull off (7)
Down
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What a queue-jumper draws from everyone behind (3)
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'Is that ___?' says the sceptic (2)
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Crisp apple from New Zealand, or a night of ballgowns and speeches (4)
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Stalling reply to 'Who finished the biscuits?' from someone covered in crumbs (2)
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Arrange by kind, like socks on laundry day (4)
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Taylor Swift's ___s Tour (3)
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Hand out, as speaking time at a meeting (5)
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Metal in the bars thieves prefer to the prison kind (4)
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A touched '___, you shouldn't have!', said with the handbag already open (2)
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Racket to avoid when digging at 2 a.m. (5)
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Detailed plan, named after the colour of old architects' copies (9)
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Moving-day vehicle with a sliding side door (3)
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Dips between hills; Kashmir and Napa have famous ones (7)
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A swooning pensioner gasps for it, loudly enough to turn every head (3)
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Team behind the camera, or a word before 'cut' or 'neck' (4)
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Mad sprint — or the mark you just passed (4)
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Overlook, as everyone does the little old lady in the corner (4)
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Security officer who looks away at exactly the wrong moment (5)
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The Holy ___: the Pope's jurisdiction, literally his 'seat' (3)
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Distraction, such as a staged faint in a crowded lobby (5)
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Terence ___, Fields Medallist who took university maths classes at nine (3)
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Fate of a car left in a no-parking zone (3)
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'___! Nobody ever suspects a grandmother' (2)