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noun • United States architect who formed an important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929) • a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place • the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest | ||||
| 25% | 11 | Deep-sea creature known for its unusual jaw | ||
noun • tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | ||||
| 25% | 5 | It typically hangs onto its West African branches to put by accumulated cash | ||
noun • arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail • a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | ||||
Hangs About Its Unusual By The Sea
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HASTINGS which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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HASTINGS
Updated: October 14, 2023
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