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Friday 2 October 2026

Guardian 30127 · Budmo · 16 across · charade

Fish arrive in bays? (7)

GARLAND

: GAR(a fish with a long slender body) + LAND(to arrive/come down, from, say, an elevated position). Answer: A …/crown made from bay/laurel tree leaves.

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Guardian 30127 · Budmo · 28 across · unknown

One in women’s underwear going to the right restaurant (9)

BRASSERIE

: I(Roman numeral for “one”) in BRASSIERE(women’s underwear) moving 2 positions to the right ( going to the right).

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Independent 12476 · Phi · 1 across · charade

Encourages family in leather (8)

BUCKSKIN

BUCKS (buck, as a verb = to encourage; perhaps more common as “buck up”?) + KIN (family). Soft leather made from deer skins.

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Independent 12476 · Phi · 12 across · container

Army abandoning base to seize a treasure (5)

HOARD

HORD [e] (army, in the sense of a big unruly mob rather than a formal military group) without E (e = in mathematics, the base of natural logarithms), containing (seizing) A.

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Financial Times 18495 · SOLOMON · 11 across · reversal

Steps song covered by Wicked cast’s back in vogue (9)

STAIRCASE

{ AIR ( song ) in [ CAST’S]* } E ( voguE, back of )

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Financial Times 18495 · SOLOMON · 19 across · unknown

A number of Germans on the stern of my boat (5)

YACHT

Y ( mY, stern of ) ACHT ( eight, in german )

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