Moving down through the puzzle, the word BEAR is being built at the beginning of the theme answers. I had a hunch about the theme from the title of BUILD-A-BEAR. It was fun to see that hunch ...

However, after several years the Polar Bear could no longer be contained. The result was a link up with The New October Poets and a whirlwind of writing and spoken word taking in Wychwood Festival ...

The woman had suffered head injuries but was still conscious enough to say the word “bear,” police said. The mushroom hunter contacted the woman’s son, who called an ambulance. The woman was ...