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noun • ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius | ||||
| 41% | 4 | French equivalent of the English “high” and Latin “altus”, thus prefixed to “boy”, “goût”, “monde”, “pas” and “ton”, to mean high wood, high taste, high society/world, high step and high fashion respectively | ||
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| 33% | 11 | Priest holding one mass, something done in critical time | ||
noun • a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause • the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | ||||
High Priest Number Two Holding Mass For Stricken City
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POMPEII which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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