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Mathematician Its Said May Be One Who Stops Things Grinding To A Halt

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noun

• a worker who oils engines or machinery

• a well that yields or has yielded oil

• a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk

45%9 It describes the shift from voiceless stops to fricatives, and voiced stops to voiceless stops
noun

• a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages

32%7 Coming to a grinding halt
adjective satellite

• disabled in the feet or legs

• fragmentary or halting from emotional strain

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Telegraph Cryptic07 Jul 2025 Down 7
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