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| 99% | 8 | Exact Match! | ||
noun • short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | ||||
| 32% | 7 | Nervously on edge | ||
adverb • in a tense manner | ||||
| 30% | 6 | An act of forgetting or neglecting to do something | ||
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Act On Edge Nervously Forgetting Golf Story
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ANECDOTE which was last seen in the Telegraph Cryptic crossword.
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ANECDOTE
Updated: December 2, 2025
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