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Reviewed sources are checked regularly throughout the Melbourne day. Broken, incomplete or incorrectly dated results are excluded.
Friday 24 July 2026
Choose a game, then reveal only what you came for. No articles, no detours, no spoilers by accident.
The five-letter answer
PUTTY
Verified by 7 matching sources · 100% agreement
All four groups
TALK AT LENGTH
BABBLE · DRONE · RAMBLE · YAK
HOMOPHONES OF RELIGIOUS ROLES
CANTER · FRYER · LLAMA · NONE
OUTCOMES FOR A BATTER
HOMERUN · SINGLE · STRIKEOUT · WALK
BRING TO MIND, AS A MEMORY
JOG · PROMPT · REFRESH · SPARK
Verified by 6 matching sources · 100% agreement
Theme, spangram & words
Spangram
ANDTHENSOME
EXCESS · EXTRA · LEFTOVER · SPARE · SURPLUS · UNUSED
Verified by 6 matching sources · 100% agreement
Across & down
1A SHELL
6A HELLO
7A HALAL
8A TIME
9A HEAD
1D SHH
2D HEATH
3D ELLIE
4D LLAMA
5D LOLED
Verified by 4 matching sources · 100% agreement
Behind the answers
We collect published puzzle answers, compare them in a consistent format and reveal how much confidence we have in the result.
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Reviewed sources are checked regularly throughout the Melbourne day. Broken, incomplete or incorrectly dated results are excluded.
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Answers are normalised and grouped by exact puzzle content. Most games require six matches; a complete Mini requires four.
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Fully verified answers enter the archive. Today’s leading result may appear earlier as provisional and is always marked with an asterisk.