7 October 2026 — 10 clues, easiest first. Answers overleaf.
Fashion from model abbreviated (4)
4 · Deletion · difficulty 1/5
Simulate lurking in copyright dispute files (4)
4 · Hidden word · difficulty 1/5
Mall when one becomes another from M to H — foyer (4)
4 · Substitution · difficulty 2/5
Drip as Kael is returning through the cellar (4)
4 · Reversal · difficulty 2/5
Stark require wrote metal, in conclusion — lurch (4)
4 · Letter selection · difficulty 2/5
Maker of a scrambled phrase (6)
6 · Anagram · difficulty 3/5
Outspoken after course area never duty ignore debate, at first (6)
6 · Letter selection · difficulty 3/5
Till, we hear, with a plough (4)
4 · Homophone · difficulty 3/5
Blessing when divinity's place arrives by the porch (7)
7 · Charade · difficulty 3/5
Lively after the sticker 'anim8d' (8)
8 · Glyph rebus · difficulty 4/5
Answers & explanations
MODE(4)
Studio hush when the pins still glitter. Abbreviated docks the last L of model, leaving MODE. Fashion is that mode sense — the prevailing style. Soft silk and a humming lamp dress the curtailment as dresser chatter rather than a labelled trim of the figure.
COPY(4)
Solicitor's desk when the ribboned bundle lands. Lurking in draws COPY from copyright — simulate, to ape. Dusty tomes, cold tea and a ticking clock turn the hide into legal grind, not a labelled forgery lesson.
HALL(4)
Arcade becomes lobby. Foyer means hall. Mall when one becomes another replaces M with H, giving HALL. Shops to vestibule.
LEAK(4)
Basement stair when the pipe still weeps. Returning reverses KAEL to LEAK — drip, the slow wet giveaway. Cobwebs and a tin bucket cloak the turn as household weather, fodder kept exact in the surface.
KEEL(4)
Ship's log after a heavy roll. The terminal letters of stark, require, wrote, metal give K-E-E-L, that is KEEL — lurch (keel over). Bridge jargon masks the endings.
SHAPER(6)
Words in a scramble somehow name the person who forms things. Scrambled tips PHRASE into SHAPER — a maker. Definition first; the grammar is only bait.
CANDID(6)
Committee corridor after a blunt exchange. At first harvests C-A-N-D-I-D from course area never duty ignore debate. Outspoken is the candid sense; the agenda muddle hides a tidy trail of initials.
PLOW(4)
Furrow-edge banter when the share still bites. We hear turns plough into PLOW — to till the soil. Soft clay and a bent cap sell the British spelling as farm chatter; the US form is what the grid wants.
GODSEND(7)
Parish step after a hard week. Divinity then place give GOD + SEND. Blessing is the godsend sense — unexpected help — and wet coats, a kettle and rain on the latch sell the join as parish weather.
ANIMATED(8)
Studio label: 'anim8d' aloud is ANIMATED, the digit eight standing in for ATE. Lively is the definition — excited and full of motion.
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