Writer Making Fly Croak

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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noun • British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947)
	35%	7		Fly family including the face fly and horn fly
noun • Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects.
	30%	6		Creature with a croak
adjective • relating to frogs and toads noun • any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

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The Guardian Cryptic31 Jan 2008	Down 7
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