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noun • United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993) | ||||
| 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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| 27% | 3 | Fool that a pedant picks | ||
noun • a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source • egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing | ||||
What Remains After Fool Picks Up High Explosive
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ASHES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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ASHES
Updated: October 14, 2023
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