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- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,847 - May 4 2024
- The Washington Post - Oct 3 2016
- The Sun - Two Speed - Jan 20 2016
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 27,382 - Jan 9 2014
- The Times - Concise - Sunday Times Concise 1314 - May 26, 2013
- Wall Street Journal - Sep 23 2011 - September 23, 2011 - Puzzle 700
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 31 - March 6, 2004
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 2424 - August 18, 2001
Related Clues:
- Cross off his head to make him cross with crossbones
- Might his hair have been coarse, by the sound of it?
- It makes the criminal furious to lose his head
- That's enough to spoil a rude, confused one out for plunder
- Cross off the criminal's head to make him cross
- But soft! I reckon to be a criminal
- Sound soft enough to make one cross on the sea
- If he loses his head he gets angry
- Cut off his head and it makes the criminal cross
- Cross at being beheaded in the open sea
- Bad 27 across, I reckon at last
- It's no good to be all at sea and cross the end
- Being beheaded, he is a cross one
- Sound soft, get cross, be criminal (6)
- With coarse hair, by the sound of it, one may get to be 2 down at last