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noun • plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals • muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye • diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening | ||||
| 33% | 10 | Connected to code flags or signal flags | ||
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| 17% | 7 | Flags etc | ||
noun • a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. • any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America | ||||
One Gets Up And Flags
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IRISES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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IRISES
Updated: October 14, 2023
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