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| 99% | 8 | Exact Match! | ||
noun • conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') | ||||
| 51% | 7 | Alan's beginning to get increasingly wide. Nothing's consumed? That's increasingly wise | ||
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| 39% | 14 | It borders West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire | ||
noun • a metropolitan county in northern England, with the districts Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, and Barnsley | ||||
Absurd Disagreement Beginning In Yorkshire Increasingly Interminable In English County
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OXYMORON which was last seen in the Telegraph Toughie crossword.
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OXYMORON
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