| End of life (5) |
Mirror Classic |
25 Aug 2025 |
| ___-defying |
Universal |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Forbade athletes foot with lethal results (5) |
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| Hated appalling loss of life (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
20 Jul 2025 |
| "___ is the most convenient time to tax rich people": David Lloyd George |
New York Times |
18 Jul 2025 |
| Steve ___, 1969-1982 Reading goalkeeper (5) |
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| ___ Valley, BBC crime mystery starring Timothy Spall as a former TV detective (5) |
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| Decease (5) |
Mirror Classic |
16 Jun 2025 |
| & 28 Down BBC crime mystery starring Timothy Spall as a former TV detective (5,6) |
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| The fringes of aged, fraying curtains |
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| "Give me liberty or give me __" |
Commuter |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Extinction |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2025 |
| In Scotland eat haggis and finish |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2025 |
| ___ on the Nile, Christie novel (5) |
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| Theme of many Poe stories |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Jun 2025 |
| Genocide. A thoughtless display of killing (5) |
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| Ominous tarot card |
Thomas Joseph |
27 May 2025 |
| Tropical island crime show (___ in Paradise) |
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| Hated change that might spell the end (5) |
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| Character who is the main focus of Terry Pratchett's novel 'Mort' (5) |
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| Character who is the main focus of Terry Pratchetl's novel 'Mort' (5) |
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| 1927 novel by Dorothy L Sayers (9,5) (see 24A) |
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| See 24 Across |
Mirror Quiz |
07 May 2025 |
| see 24ac, 1927 novel by Dorothy L Sayers |
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| 2011 novel by Bernard Cornwell (5,2,5) |
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| & 4D 2011 novel by Bernard Cornwell (5,2,5) |
Mirror Quiz |
06 May 2025 |
| 1969-1982 Reading goalkeeper (5,5) |
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| Extinction |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Apr 2025 |
| In Scotland eat haggis and finish |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Apr 2025 |
| Sam left rotten masthead to the end (5) |
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| Demise sealed by ineptitude at Harrods (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Apr 2025 |
| _ in Paradise. crime series set in the Caribbean (5) |
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| Demise sealed by ineptitude at Harrods (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
19 Apr 2025 |
| Ominous tarot card |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Apr 2025 |
| With what is a thanatologist concerned? (5) |
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| Final thing fitted into facade at home |
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| "___ at a Funeral"; Chris Rock film |
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| __ Valley, California |
Commuter |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Narrator of "The Book Thief" |
LA Times Daily |
16 Feb 2025 |
| ____ On The Nile, 1937 detective novel by Agatha Christie (5) |
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| Meryl Streep movie: - Becomes Her |
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| The inevitable schadenfreude at house arrests (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
07 Feb 2025 |
| Black comedy Happy_ Day (5) |
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| 'Darkling I listen; and, for many a time/I have been half in love with easeful ___' (John Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 6) (5) |
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| Tarot card that often depicts the Grim Reaper |
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| Steve...., 1969-82 Reading goalkeeper (5) |
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| Opposite of birth (5) |
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| With taxes, a certainty |
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| As sure as taxpayers's contribution (5) |
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| Sam Neill movie, ... in Brunswick |
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| ___ on the Nile, Agatha Christie story (5) |
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| End of life |
Mirror Classic |
28 Nov 2024 |
| With 3-Down, genre of the bands Obituary and Morbid Angel |
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| Word before In Paradise - a British-French crime drama series running since 2011 (5) |
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| Runs out in shortage? That's the end |
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| The normal sort of departure (7,5) |
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| Thanatophobes' fear |
Universal |
06 Nov 2024 |
| "...till ___ do us part" (wedding vow) |
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| The speed at which people depart (5,4) |
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| Hated disorderly demise (5) |
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| Hated to change it, in the end (5) |
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| The passing over (5) |
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| Life partner made a threat essentially (5) |
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| __ Valley, California |
LA Times Daily |
15 Oct 2024 |
| The end shows there to have been a shortage, right out (5) |
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| & 14 Down. Final sentence to end the play at possibly? (5,7) |
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| Decease |
Mirror Classic |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Possibly hated the end of one's life (5) |
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| - and Other Details, Mandy Patinkin crime series (5) |
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| I_ _ _ _ _at terrifies thanatophobes |
New York Times |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Agatha Christie's "___ on the Nile" |
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| End of life |
Commuter |
18 Jul 2024 |
| Tarot card numbered XIII |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Jul 2024 |
| "Till __ do us part" |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jul 2024 |
| Life partner? |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Jul 2024 |
| Tarot card |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Jun 2024 |
| - of a Salesman |
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| A questionable stinger in the end (5) |
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| Robert Zemeckis film starring Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis (5,7,3) |
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| Want to eliminate Republican loss |
The Times Cryptic |
15 May 2024 |
| Fatality |
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| Hated kind of duty? (5) |
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| Per Franklin, a certainty |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Apr 2024 |
| ___ of a Salesman, Arthur Miller play (5) |
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| Tweak the ad to show expiration |
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| A trade union, established in heartland, arranged regular departure (7,5) |
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| , 10A & 5D 1937 novel by Agatha Christie (5,2,3,4) |
Mirror Quiz |
15 Apr 2024 |
| 1937 novel by Agatha Christie (5,2,3,4) |
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| "Til ___ do us part" |
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| Hated appalling loss of life (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
06 Apr 2024 |
| Permanent end of life (5) |
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| Word with seat or notice |
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| End of life |
Mirror Classic |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Grim reaper spotted inside Athens (5) |
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| Guy with a scythe and black hooded robe |
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| End of life (5) |
Puzzler |
09 Mar 2024 |
| It finishes a marriage in line with traditional vows |
|
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| Black ___; kiss of ___ (5) |
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| A storybook ending in Venice (5) |
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| _ metal |
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| ___ by chocolate, option on a dessert menu |
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| US desert, ... Valley |
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| 2007 film thriller starring Kevin Bacon and Garrett Hedlund (5,8) |
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| & 20D 2007 film thriller starring Kevin Bacon and Garrett Hedlund |
Mirror Quiz |
19 Feb 2024 |
| Two-part play written in 1900 by August Strindberg whose central characters are husband and wife Edgar and Alice (3,5,2,5) |
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| See 6 Down |
Mirror Quiz |
13 Feb 2024 |
| Demise |
Puzzler Backwords |
09 Feb 2024 |
| Demise |
Mirror Classic |
08 Feb 2024 |
| "____ in Venice" |
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| ___ Becomes Her, Meryl Streep film (5) |
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| In for a kill... when it all comes down to dust? (2,3,5) |
|
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| Demise |
Commuter |
19 Jan 2024 |
| 1969-82 Reading goalkeeper (5) |
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| Dies from lack of food in favourite underwear, reading poetry at home originally (7,2,5) |
|
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| Darkness |
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| "I am become ___, destroyer of worlds" |
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| "...till ___ do us part..." (certain vow, maybe) |
|
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| "...till ___ do us part" (wedding vow) |
|
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| The end of the said potty is missing |
The Guardian Cryptic |
18 Jul 2023 |
| What the Grim Reaper brings |
New York Times |
03 Jul 2023 |
| 'No more than passing from one room into another,' per Helen Keller |
New York Times |
21 Apr 2023 |
| Ominous tarot card |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Feb 2023 |
| The big sleep? |
The Guardian Quick |
30 Dec 2022 |
| Hated fancy curtains |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Dec 2022 |
| Per Franklin, a certainty |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Nov 2022 |
| "...till ___ do us part" (wedding vow) |
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| 24/5/6/8/__ - where the 26/15 rode, according to Tennyson |
The Guardian Weekend |
09 Jul 2022 |
| "__ Comes to Pemberley": P.D. James novel |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jun 2022 |
| Departure from idea thrills |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 May 2022 |
| Sudden-___ (tiebreaker in sports) |
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| U-turn from life |
Family Time |
02 May 2022 |
| Decease |
The Times Concise |
22 Apr 2022 |
| Per Franklin, a certainty |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Mar 2022 |
| "__ of a Salesman" |
LA Times Daily |
15 Feb 2022 |
| '__ of a Salesman' |
The Washington Post |
15 Feb 2022 |
| No power in profundity – one instead makes conclusion |
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| See 1 across |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Dec 2021 |
| Extinction |
The Times Concise |
15 Dec 2021 |
| __ metal: dark '80s-'90s music genre |
LA Times Daily |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Curtains made at home, apart from fringes |
The Guardian Cryptic |
28 Oct 2021 |
| Curtains made at home, apart from fringes |
|
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| "Love and ___," 1975 comedy starring Diane Keaton as Sonja |
|
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| The end of French at the origin of Huguenots |
|
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| Agatha Christie's "___ on the Nile" |
|
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| "Murder by __": 1976 Neil Simon spoof film |
LA Times Daily |
17 Mar 2021 |
| 'Murder by __': 1976 Neil Simon spoof film |
The Washington Post |
17 Mar 2021 |
| Love to ___ (adore) |
Universal |
11 Mar 2021 |
| It's the end of a traditional match |
|
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| "A Covenant with ___," 1964 legal thriller novel by Stephen Becker set in New Mexico |
|
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| Jason Statham's "___ Race" |
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| Thomas Mann's "___ in Venice" |
|
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| "Happy ___ Day," 2017 film starring Jessica Rothe as a college student who is stuck in a time loop |
|
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| "___ Race" (Jason Statham movie) |
|
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| "A Happy ___," novel by Albert Camus published posthumously in 1971 which recounts his travels in Europe |
|
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| Life partner? |
Universal |
04 Sep 2020 |
| "I Love You to ___," 1990 dark comedy film starring River Phoenix as Devo Nod, the young co-worker |
|
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| With 130 Across, dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe |
The Washington Post Sunday |
19 Jan 2020 |
| "___ Race," 2008 action thriller film starring Jason Statham which featured the 2006 Ford Mustang GT |
|
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| Partial blockade at harbour ending |
|
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| End of episode — a three-parter? |
|
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| One of the Four Horsemen |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Nov 2019 |
| Word before "stare" or "Star" |
Universal |
02 Nov 2019 |
| ___ Row, record label co-founded by Dr. Dre |
|
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| Opposite of "life" |
|
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| "___ Wish" (Bronson film) |
The New Yorker |
27 May 2019 |
| Tarot card that bears the numeral XIII |
New York Times |
25 May 2019 |
| Ominous tarot card |
Thomas Joseph |
03 May 2019 |
| "...till ___ do us part..." (certain vow, maybe) |
|
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| 'A — in the Family' (Agee book) |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Jan 2019 |
| First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie |
The Washington Post |
10 Jan 2019 |
| First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jan 2019 |
| Word before "stare" or "Star" |
|
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| Tarot card numbered XIII |
|
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| Tarot card that bears the numeral XIII |
|
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| First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie |
|
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| Expiration date stamped on top of ham |
|
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| Fond of fellow, having suppressed dreadful hate (7, two words) |
|
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| Free climbers knowingly risk it |
The New Yorker |
20 Aug 2018 |
| Demise |
Irish Times Simplex |
28 Jul 2018 |
| Demise |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jul 2018 |
| Demise |
The Washington Post |
07 Jul 2018 |
| In passing, this is always a grave business |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Jun 2018 |
| A hound's tail wagging with the hunt's climax |
|
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| Squashing head and pushing in tip of tomahawk led to end of life |
|
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| One of Franklin's certainties |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Jan 2018 |
| Demise |
|
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| Curtains some made at home |
|
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| Arthur Miller's "___ of a Salesman" |
USA Today |
11 Nov 2017 |
| Demise |
Canadiana |
23 Oct 2017 |
| Poverty struck right at the end |
|
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| One of two certainties, to Franklin |
USA Today |
25 Sep 2017 |
| Sudden -- |
Premier Sunday |
17 Sep 2017 |
| One of Franklin's two certainties |
The Washington Post |
31 Aug 2017 |
| One of Franklin's two certainties |
LA Times Daily |
31 Aug 2017 |
| Arthur Miller's "___ of a Salesman" |
|
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| One of Franklin's two certainties |
|
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| One of two certainties, to Franklin |
|
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| It's certain along with taxes, it's said |
Universal |
07 Oct 2016 |
| "I'm not afraid of __; I just don't want to be there when it happens": Woody Allen |
LA Times Daily |
07 Aug 2016 |
| Sudden ___ (overtime format) |
New York Times |
13 Jun 2016 |
| Opposite of life |
Family Time |
29 Feb 2016 |
| Want to remove resistance, inviting mortality |
|
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| Sudden ___ (overtime format) |
|
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| It's certain along with taxes, it's said |
|
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| "I'm not afraid of __; I just don't want to be there when it happens": Woody Allen |
|
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| Tarot card often interpreted as a positive sign, ironically |
The Washington Post |
17 Nov 2015 |
| "___ of a Salesman" |
Universal |
03 Nov 2015 |
| Doctor hated curtains |
|
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| Option in a Patrick Henry quote |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jun 2015 |
| Fate of Miller's salesman |
USA Today |
02 May 2015 |
| It's as sure as taxes |
Universal |
28 Mar 2015 |
| Worry that daughter initially hates net curtains |
|
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| Tarot card often interpreted as a positive sign, ironically |
|
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| Partner of taxes |
|
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| Fate of Miller's salesman |
|
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| It's as sure as taxes |
|
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| "___ of a Salesman" |
|
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| Life partner? |
|
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| "___ of a Salesman" |
|
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| "The king of terrors," per Job 18 |
|
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| The end |
|
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| ___ by chocolate (calorie-heavy dessert) |
|
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| Word in several Agatha Christie titles |
|
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| Thread runs out embroidering curtains |
|
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| Metallica "___ Magnetic" |
|
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| Necrophobe's fear |
|
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| Late period? |
|
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| The living end? |
|
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| The living end? |
|
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| Life partner? |
|
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| ___ by chocolate (popular dessert) |
|
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| Donne's "__ Be Not Proud" |
|
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| Donne's "__ Be Not Proud" |
|
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| One of Franklin's two certainties |
|
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| What the Grim Reaper represents |
|
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| Word in many whodunit titles |
|
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| ___ and 36-Across (two of life's certainties) |
|
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| "___ Be Not Proud" |
|
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| One of life's certainties |
|
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| This and taxes are certain |
|
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| Companion of taxes |
|
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| ___ by chocolate (calorie-heavy dessert) |
|
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| The Grim Reaper |
|
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| Point of no return? |
|
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| "___ Becomes Her" (Hawn/Streep comedy) |
|
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| Agatha Christie title word |
|
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| "Murder by __": Neil Simon comedy |
|
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| Done to __: repeated too often |
|
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| "Murder by __": Neil Simon comedy |
|
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| Done to __: repeated too often |
|
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| Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra |
|
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| Life partner? |
|
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| John Donne's "___ Be Not Proud" |
|
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| Card in the major arcana |
|
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| One of Franklin's two certainties |
|
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| Card in the major arcana |
|
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| Fate of Miller's salesman |
|
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| End |
|
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| Word in many Agatha Christie titles |
|
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| "___ be not proud ...": Donne |
|
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| It's as sure as taxes, so they say |
|
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| Necrophobiac's fear |
|
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| Taxes partner |
|
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| "___ in Venice" |
|
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| "The sound of distant thunder at a picnic": W.H. Auden |
|
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| Browne's "cure of all diseases" |
|
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| "____ of a Salesman" |
|
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| "____of a Salesman" |
|
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| One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
|
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| Life partner? |
|
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| One of Franklin's two certainties |
|
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| Theroux's "endless night" |
|
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| One of Franklin's two certainties |
|
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| Kind of knell |
|
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| Word in many Agatha Christie titles |
|
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| "_____ in Venice" |
|
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| "_____ of a Salesman" |
|
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| "__ on the Nile" (1978 film) |
|
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| "___ Takes a Holiday" (1934 film) |
|
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| Failure |
|
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| Chile has left open the possibility of trying Pinochet in the "Caravan of __" killings of political prisoners |
|
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| "-- Be Not Proud": Donne |
|
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| Passing trade at hardware stores |
|
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| "___ Be Not Proud" |
|
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| As sure as taxes |
|
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| Browne's "cure of all diseases" |
|
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| Card signifying change in tarot |
|
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| Passing |
|
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| Departure |
|
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| "___ of a Salesman" |
|
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| Thomas Mann's ____ in Venice |
|
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| "Love and __" |
|
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| "-in Venice". Mann |
|
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| Finis |
|
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| Ruination |
|
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| "_____ in Venice" |
|
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| One of the Four Horsemen |
|
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| ___ Valley, Calif. |
|
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| "___ in the Afternoon": Hemingway |
|
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| Mann's "___ in Venice" |
|
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| Quietus |
|
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| ___ and taxes |
|
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| "___ of a Salesman" |
|
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| Rider on a pale horse |
|
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| Kind of blow |
|
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| "___ of a Salesman." |
|
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| Taxes' partner |
|
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| ___ Valley. |
|
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| Thomas Mann's "___ in Venice." |
|
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| "___ and Transfiguration." |
|
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| Bored to ___ |
|
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| Extinction. |
|
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| The Pale Horse: Rev. vi, 8. |
|
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| See 22-Down |
|
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| To ___ (to the extreme). |
|
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| "___ in the Afternoon." |
|
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