| Refuse to vote and get a black mark (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
10 Sep 2025 |
| Avoid drink? Don't commit to a view |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Decline to vote? That's a black mark |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
02 Aug 2025 |
| When drunk, it's a ban: join Alcoholics Anonymous? |
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| Decline to vote on a black mark(7) |
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| Ban it as being unsuitable refrain (7) |
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| Refrain from changing lan's bat (7) |
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| To refrain from voting (7) |
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| Refrain from performing bastinado - do away with it |
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| Decide not to show cross? (7) |
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| Decline to vote |
Universal |
28 May 2025 |
| Don't do it! Tar will mark (7) |
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| Refuse to partake (7) |
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| Decide not to vote (7) |
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| Decline to vote |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 May 2025 |
| Sailor, corrupt, to avoid booze |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 May 2025 |
| Mark follows sailor, but not to drink (7) |
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| Don't. It's a tar mark (7) |
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| Be teetotal (7) |
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| It's a ban put out - so keep away (7) |
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| Refrain from giving a seaman a bad mark (7) |
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| Formally refuse to vote either for or against (7) |
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| Desist |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Leave liquor out (7) |
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| Don't drink from the basin, being at variance with it (7) |
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| Choose to not vote (7) |
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| Decline to vote |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Mar 2025 |
| Seaman Mark to leave booze alone |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Mar 2025 |
| Decline to vote |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Ban Asti perhaps? |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Don't vote for sailor with fault (7) |
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| Hold back in a black spot (7) |
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| Refrain, forbear (7) |
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| Choose not to participate |
New York Times |
28 Jan 2025 |
| Refrain from making rating over-exert himself right out (7) |
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| Refrain from voting |
Mirror Classic |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Decline to vote |
The Sun Mini |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Don't! It's a ban, maybe (7) |
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| Decline to vote |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jan 2025 |
| At basin, rough? Avoid booze! |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jan 2025 |
| Vote for neither side (7) |
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| Jack's got Tina dressed to keep dry (7) |
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| Pass on dessert, maybe |
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| Pass with two good marks and a bad one |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Dec 2024 |
| Sailor Mark is not to vote (7) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
30 Nov 2024 |
| Rating it's an alternative way to leave it alone (7) |
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| Keep away ___ it's a ban (7) |
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| Keep away - it's a ban (7) |
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| Choose to refrain from playing with Ian's bat (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
09 Nov 2024 |
| Decline to say "aye" or "nay" |
Newsday |
06 Nov 2024 |
| Go without |
Mirror Tea Time |
13 Oct 2024 |
| Refrain from calling a sailor some sort of saint (7) |
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| Vote neither for nor against (7) |
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| Retired graduate with blemish has to sit on the fence? (7) |
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| Don't vote - it could be the mark of a seaman (7) |
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| Don't touch sailor with a blemish (7) |
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| Sailor with mark will not vote (7) |
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| Refuse to cast a vote for or against something (7) |
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| Stay away (from) |
New York Times |
07 Aug 2024 |
| Go without alcohol |
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| Withhold vote to go without alcohol (7) |
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| Take no part |
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| Sailors at place of Berbice campus decline to vote (7) |
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| Do without it, as ban involved (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
10 Jun 2024 |
| Decline to participate in getting behind travel agents around start of summer |
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| Don't vote to be a teetotaller (7) |
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| Avoid alcohol (7) |
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| It's a ban that may be revised ___ don't! (7) |
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| Choose to refrain |
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| Muscles occasionally tear in decline |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 May 2024 |
| Avoid making the mark of a sailor (7) |
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| Thanks to being in broken basin, won't take drink (7) |
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| Don't do it: the salt will leave a mark (7) |
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| To a sailor it's a black mark not to indulge (7) |
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| Keep away from human blood type that makes a mark (7) |
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| Withhold vote |
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| Jack and Mark take no part (7) |
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| Refrain from giving the sailor a dirty look (7) |
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| Sailor, corrupt, to avoid booze |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Mar 2024 |
| Decline to vote |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Mar 2024 |
| Don't vote with a black mark (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Refrain from voting |
Mirror Classic |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Refrain from changing Ian's bat (7) |
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| It is a blot on the sailor to refrain from alcohol (7) |
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| It's a blot on the sailor to refrain from alcohol (7) |
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| Refrain from voting |
Mirror Classic |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Don't drink at basin for a change |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
04 Jan 2024 |
| Sit on fence in a British spot |
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| (ANA) Disturbed inhabitants taking hint don't do it (7) |
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| On a tar mark. don't (7) |
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| Do without it, as ban involved (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
07 Nov 2023 |
| Decline to vote |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Nov 2023 |
| Decline to vote |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Go without ashtray, occasionally filling a waste basket |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 May 2023 |
| Choose not to do something |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Feb 2023 |
| Hold back sailor with taint of guilt |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Feb 2023 |
| Refrain (from) |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Jan 2023 |
| Decline to vote |
USA Today |
19 Sep 2022 |
| Sat awkwardly in a wine store, choose not to partake? |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Sep 2022 |
| Jack and Mark do not vote |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Aug 2022 |
| Hold back! Injured boatswain letting out cry of pain |
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| Refrain from drinking |
Premier Sunday |
15 May 2022 |
| Refrain from commenting on stomach mark. |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 May 2022 |
| Refrain (from) |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Feb 2022 |
| Don't cross a ballot paper with a black mark |
|
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| Refrain from voting |
The Guardian Quick |
18 Oct 2021 |
| Decline to vote |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Sep 2021 |
| Bats in a building - don't touch them |
Irish Times Crosaire |
29 May 2021 |
| Decline to vote |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 May 2021 |
| Sailor, corrupt, to avoid booze |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 May 2021 |
| Choose not to vote |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Apr 2021 |
| Stay alcohol-free |
LA Times Daily |
29 Mar 2021 |
| Decline to vote |
The Times Concise |
29 Mar 2021 |
| Stay alcohol-free |
The Washington Post |
29 Mar 2021 |
| Drunk sat in a skip has to leave booze alone |
|
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| Refuse a black mark |
|
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| Seaman Mark to leave booze alone |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Feb 2021 |
| Don't put an X rating on the spot |
|
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| Refrain from imbibing |
Premier Sunday |
20 Dec 2020 |
| Do not cross any politicians on election day! |
|
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| Way one is packed in a container — keep away |
|
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| Drunk sat in a skip? Leave booze alone! |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Aug 2020 |
| Decline to vote rejecting outrageous lie from insatiable criminal |
|
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| 26 Mark, after sailor, to hold back |
|
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| Ban Asti perhaps? |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 May 2020 |
| One blackbird's heading over spot to sit on fence |
|
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| Just not do it? |
Family Time |
20 Apr 2020 |
| Hold back Jack's vessel, circling area |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Feb 2020 |
| Do without it, as ban involved |
|
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| Don't vote for Arron Banks' small-minded Tory arrant immigration nonsense, for starters |
|
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| Don't vote using a black mark |
|
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| Sat drunkenly having entered a wine store? Leave booze alone! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Oct 2019 |
| Possibly fast opening to accident black spot |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Sep 2019 |
| Resist |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jul 2019 |
| Keep away from type of blood spot |
|
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| Sailors and reserves lead Indian refrain |
|
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| A black mark for forbear |
|
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| Don't put an X: it's a black mark |
|
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| Be a good designated driver |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2019 |
| Be a good designated driver |
|
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| Take no side |
The Washington Post |
23 Dec 2018 |
| Take no side |
LA Times Daily |
23 Dec 2018 |
| Playing tabs in a refrain |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Nov 2018 |
| Refrain from Carmen keeping our time now |
The Telegraph Toughie |
23 Nov 2018 |
| See sailor with 6 give up booze |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Nov 2018 |
| Having a ban sit out and take no part |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Oct 2018 |
| Do without |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Voluntarily refrain |
|
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| Don't drink one drop of beer, Mark |
|
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| Decline to vote |
Premier Sunday |
08 Apr 2018 |
| Do without it, as ban involved |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Jan 2018 |
| Decide not to vote, collecting a black mark |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Jan 2018 |
| Ban Asti cocktail — don't drink! |
|
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| Take no side |
|
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| Go without a black mark |
|
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| Pass a black spot |
|
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| Fail to make a mark, maybe a black mark |
|
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| Pass up a street in Bahrain, but not the centre |
|
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| Bats fluttering in wet conditions first off stay dry |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Aug 2017 |
| Stay away from salt dye |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Aug 2017 |
| Successfully resist temptation |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Jul 2017 |
| Formally decline to vote |
The Times Concise |
20 Jul 2017 |
| Refrain from giving sailor a dirty look |
|
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| Salt mark's not come down on either side |
The Telegraph Toughie |
02 May 2017 |
| Refrain |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Mar 2017 |
| Don't vote for a black mark |
|
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| To not vote is a black mark |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Feb 2017 |
| One nabs it anyway, don't go |
|
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| Choose not to vote, or drink |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 Nov 2016 |
| Refuse to vote |
The Times Concise |
31 Oct 2016 |
| Pass a black spot |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Oct 2016 |
| In a wine store, head of Salvation Army not to be tempted? |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Aug 2016 |
| Choose not to vote |
Universal |
07 Aug 2016 |
| Disgrace after sailor will not drink |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Aug 2016 |
| Not vote |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Jun 2016 |
| Refrain from taking sailor to spot |
|
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| Refuse to put a cross in a black spot |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Apr 2016 |
| Fast |
The Washington Post |
24 Apr 2016 |
| Choose not to vote |
|
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| Sit out the vote |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Dec 2015 |
| Don't vote and get a black mark |
|
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| Don't vote and get a black mark |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Nov 2015 |
| Avoid |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Sep 2015 |
| Refrain from seeing holy woman in a French bath |
|
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| Choose not to participate |
USA Today |
27 Feb 2015 |
| Napalm Death "I ___" |
|
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| Choose not to participate |
|
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| Lay off sailor with stigma |
|
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| Choose not to vote |
|
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| Keep off tar splotch |
|
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| Express no view on seaman's blemish |
|
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| Not partake |
|
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| Refuse to vote, putting Jack on the spot |
|
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| Refrain (from) |
|
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| Decline to vote |
|
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| Refrain from |
|
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| Choose not to participate |
|
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| Don't drink liqueur without the covering 'Cheers!' |
|
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| Sit out the vote |
|
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| Choose not to vote |
|
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| What the celibate do |
|
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| Choose not to vote |
|
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| Teetotal |
|
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| Skip voting |
|
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| Choose not to vote |
|
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| Stay on the wagon |
|
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| Decline to vote |
|
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| Purposely have no sex life |
|
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| Decline to vote |
|
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| Fast |
|
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| Refrain |
|
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| Fast, e.g. |
|
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| Refrain from voting |
|
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| Teetotal |
|
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| Lay off |
|
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| Refrain |
|
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| Refrain |
|
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| Holdoff |
|
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| What a celibate will do |
|
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| Forbear |
|
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| Choose to not participate |
|
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| Decline to decide |
|
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| Shun the voting booth |
|
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| Choose not to choose |
|
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| Choose not to choose |
|
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| Hold back |
|
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| Not raise a hand, say |
|
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| Hold back |
|
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| Decline to decide |
|
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| Voluntarily refrain |
|
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| Avoid, with "from" |
|
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| Fast |
|
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| Practice self-denial |
|
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| Refrain |
|
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| Decline to vote |
|
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| Sit on one's hands? |
|
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| Just say no? |
|
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| Teetotal |
|
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| Forgo |
|
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| Refrain, as from voting. |
|
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| Stand aloof. |
|
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| Avoid doing |
|
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| Withhold. |
|
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| Refrain from voting, U. N. style. |
|
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| Cast no vote, as in U. N. |
|
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