🔎Clue: Piggy-back for Captain Birdseye (6,6)
✅ Weds answer(117) Gary Oldman 🎭
🤔Fact: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) advised Oldman to find a new career other than acting 😆
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🔎Clue: Piggy-back for Captain Birdseye (6,6)
✅ Weds answer(117) Gary Oldman 🎭
🤔Fact: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) advised Oldman to find a new career other than acting 😆
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🔎Clue: His nag came last in the Grand National! (4,6)
✅ Tues answer(116) Avril Lavigne 🎵
🤔Fact: Lavigne played ice hockey at high school and was named MVP twice! 🏒
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🔎Clue: His nag came last in the Grand National! (4,6)
✅ Tues answer(116) Avril Lavigne 🎵
🤔Fact: Lavigne played ice hockey at high school and was named MVP twice! 🏒
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🔎Clue: TV relation (⛔️)
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✅ Thurs answer(105) Roger Daltrey
🤔Fact: Before becoming a member of The Who he was a sheet-metal worker 🔨 🚫 Hints/spoilers=block
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🔎Clue: TV relation (⛔️)
(So hard to find a clue that doesn’t give it away!)
✅ Thurs answer(105) Roger Daltrey
🤔Fact: Before becoming a member of The Who he was a sheet-metal worker 🔨 🚫 Hints/spoilers=block
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🔎Clue: Thankfully, this sportsperson didn’t live up to their surname (6,6)
✅ Fri answer(106) Buster Merryfield 🙌
🤔Fact: Real name Harry, he was named Buster by his grandfather as he weighed nine pounds at birth 👶
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🔎Clue: Thankfully, this sportsperson didn’t live up to their surname (6,6)
✅ Fri answer(106) Buster Merryfield 🙌
🤔Fact: Real name Harry, he was named Buster by his grandfather as he weighed nine pounds at birth 👶
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🔎Clue: I’ll be totally delirious if you manage to get this right (5,6)
✅ Mon answer(107) Robbie Fowler ⚽️
🤔Fact: Playing for schoolboy team Thorvald, he once scored 16 times in one match! 👏
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🔎Clue: I’ll be totally delirious if you manage to get this right (5,6)
✅ Mon answer(107) Robbie Fowler ⚽️
🤔Fact: Playing for schoolboy team Thorvald, he once scored 16 times in one match! 👏
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🔎Clue: This conundrum will be big in Italy, perhaps (6,6)
✅ Tues answer(108) Eddie Murphy 🎥
🤔Fact: He was the first actor to receive $1,000,000 for his first film (48 Hours) 💰
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🔎Clue: This conundrum will be big in Italy, perhaps (6,6)
✅ Tues answer(108) Eddie Murphy 🎥
🤔Fact: He was the first actor to receive $1,000,000 for his first film (48 Hours) 💰
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🔎Clue: On paper, this person certainly knows how to sell a gag (⛔️)
✅ Weds answer(109) Ariana Grande 🎵
🤔Fact: Ariana has ten rescue dogs! ❤️ 🐕
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🔎Clue: On paper, this person certainly knows how to sell a gag (⛔️)
✅ Weds answer(109) Ariana Grande 🎵
🤔Fact: Ariana has ten rescue dogs! ❤️ 🐕
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🔎Clue: What an absolute racket! (6,9)
✅ Fri answer(110) Stephen Merchant
🤔Fact: Stephen was a mobile DJ in his youth! 🎶
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🔎Clue: What an absolute racket! (6,9)
✅ Fri answer(110) Stephen Merchant
🤔Fact: Stephen was a mobile DJ in his youth! 🎶
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🔎Clue: If you can’t work this one out, soak your piece of paper! (6,6)
✅ Tues answer(111) Serena Williams 🎾
🤔Fact: I did this conundrum before and didn’t realise! 🤣
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🔎Clue: If you can’t work this one out, soak your piece of paper! (6,6)
✅ Tues answer(111) Serena Williams 🎾
🤔Fact: I did this conundrum before and didn’t realise! 🤣
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🔎Clue: Surely everybody knows… 🤣 (3,6)
✅ Weds answer(112) Jarvis Cocker 🎵
🤔Fact: Not related to fellow Sheffield singer Joe Cocker, but he did occasionally babysit Jarvis as families knew each other 🏡
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🔎Clue: Surely everybody knows… 🤣 (3,6)
✅ Weds answer(112) Jarvis Cocker 🎵
🤔Fact: Not related to fellow Sheffield singer Joe Cocker, but he did occasionally babysit Jarvis as families knew each other 🏡
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🔎Clue: Not a big leap from a certain TV character to this person (⛔️)
✅ Thurs answer(113) Ted Danson
🤔Fact: Ted’s middle name is Bridge 🌉
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🔎Clue: Not a big leap from a certain TV character to this person (⛔️)
✅ Thurs answer(113) Ted Danson
🤔Fact: Ted’s middle name is Bridge 🌉
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🔎Clue: 3 in white, but usually 6 in yellow (7,6)
✅ Fri answer(114) Samuel Beckett
🤔Fact: It’s believed that the name ‘Sam Beckett’ in Quantum Leap was a nod to the playwright. 🎭 📺
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🔎Clue: 3 in white, but usually 6 in yellow (7,6)
✅ Fri answer(114) Samuel Beckett
🤔Fact: It’s believed that the name ‘Sam Beckett’ in Quantum Leap was a nod to the playwright. 🎭 📺
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🔎Clue: I won’t tell you, but it is complicated! (5,7)
✅ Mon answer(115) Roberto Carlos ⚽️
🤔Fact: Carlos is the fourth most capped Brazilian player of all time 🇧🇷
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🔎Clue: I won’t tell you, but it is complicated! (5,7)
✅ Mon answer(115) Roberto Carlos ⚽️
🤔Fact: Carlos is the fourth most capped Brazilian player of all time 🇧🇷
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🔎Clue: Who?!?!?! (5,7)
✅ Tues answer(104) Tessa Sanderson
🤔Fact: Tessa won Javelin gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, with a throw of 69.56 🥇
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🔎Clue: Who?!?!?! (5,7)
✅ Tues answer(104) Tessa Sanderson
🤔Fact: Tessa won Javelin gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, with a throw of 69.56 🥇
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🔎Clue: 69.56 🇺🇸 (5,9)
✅ Mon answer(103) Amelia Clarke 📺 🎥
🤔Fact: Amelia, in honour of Daenerys Targaryen, has three dragons tattooed on her wrist! 🐉
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🔎Clue: 69.56 🇺🇸 (5,9)
✅ Mon answer(103) Amelia Clarke 📺 🎥
🤔Fact: Amelia, in honour of Daenerys Targaryen, has three dragons tattooed on her wrist! 🐉
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🔎Clue: Don’t let the process of working out this superstar ‘drag on’ (6,6)
✅ Fri answer(102) Peter Capaldi 📺 🎥
🤔Fact: Peter’s parents ran an ice cream business in Glasgow🍦
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🔎Clue: Don’t let the process of working out this superstar ‘drag on’ (6,6)
✅ Fri answer(102) Peter Capaldi 📺 🎥
🤔Fact: Peter’s parents ran an ice cream business in Glasgow🍦
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🔎Clue: The twelfth man (⛔️)
✅ Thurs answer(101) Thom Yorke 🎶
🤔Fact: In 2023, an extinct stingray species was named after the Radiohead musician… dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei. 🌊
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🔎Clue: The twelfth man (⛔️)
✅ Thurs answer(101) Thom Yorke 🎶
🤔Fact: In 2023, an extinct stingray species was named after the Radiohead musician… dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei. 🌊
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🔎Clue: An absolute monster of a conundrum (4,7)
✅ Monday answer(99) Steve Redgrave 🚣
🤔Fact: The only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport. 🥇
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🔎Clue: An absolute monster of a conundrum (4,7)
✅ Monday answer(99) Steve Redgrave 🚣
🤔Fact: The only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport. 🥇
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