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noun • extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | ||||
| 24% | 8 | Female character in The Rivals who uses words wrongly | ||
noun • the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | ||||
| 17% | 9 | Responsible for the downfall of many rivals | ||
noun • wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero • granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33) | ||||
Character In The Rivals
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ACRES which was last seen in the New York Times NYT crossword.
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ACRES
Updated: October 10, 2023
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