| Connect to and grip (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
11 Sep 2025 |
| Employ |
Commuter |
30 Jul 2025 |
| Hire |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
18 Jul 2025 |
| Capture, as one's attention |
|
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| Hire |
Thomas Joseph |
10 May 2025 |
| Employ engineer over long time |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
18 Apr 2025 |
| Hire first of employees before no good period (6) |
|
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| Take on employees: - staff |
|
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| Hire men to remove mass, and joke with sweetheart (6) |
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| Promise, when you hire (6) |
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| Choose to interact with |
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| Interact, involve |
|
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| Connect by giving a ring (6) |
|
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| Secure the services of |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Mar 2025 |
| Hire to do battle with (6) |
|
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| Hire |
Commuter |
14 Mar 2025 |
| Take part in English season |
The Times Mephisto |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Participate in, hire (6) |
|
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| Start fighting to get into gear? (6) |
|
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| Capture one's attention (6) |
|
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| Get to grips with the staff shortage? (6) |
|
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| Hire, take on (an employee) |
Puzzler Backwords |
27 Jan 2025 |
| Enemy, O my, has kidnapped crack recruit (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Jan 2025 |
| Hire and participate (6) |
Mirror Cryptic |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Charter |
Mirror Quick |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Commission space for grand silver elephant's head |
Mirror Cryptic |
19 Jan 2025 |
| Hire |
Mirror Quick |
19 Jan 2025 |
| One third of fruit's been eaten? Get stuck in |
The Times Cryptic |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Take on an egg scrambled on end of stove (6) |
|
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| Take on, employ (6) |
|
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| Employ one to go into battle (6) |
|
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| Hold the interest of |
USA Today |
14 Dec 2024 |
| Take part (in) |
LA Times Daily |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Of cogs, mesh (6) |
|
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| Capture, as one's attention |
|
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| Promise to take part in (6) |
|
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| Hire him to pick it from the greengages (6) |
|
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| Captivate |
Universal |
16 Oct 2024 |
| Get to grips with the staff problem? |
|
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| Move into position so as to come into operation (6) |
|
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| Involve oneself to get into gear (6) |
|
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| Interlock |
Universal |
05 Oct 2024 |
| Hire (employee) (6) |
|
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| Secure services of inside leg? Agnes taken aback! (6) |
|
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| Hire him in the greengage season |
|
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| Bring into conflict before marriage? (6) |
|
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| Secure the services of |
The Times Concise |
06 Sep 2024 |
| Promise to meet (6) |
|
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| Hold (someone's attention) (6) |
|
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| Involve intensely (6) |
|
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| Attract and keep the attention of |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Aug 2024 |
| "Don't ___ in any arguments" (partake) |
|
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| Hold plum, having lost first three (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
29 Jul 2024 |
| Recruit has to start fighting |
|
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| Employ and captivate (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
04 Jul 2024 |
| Hire someone to join in conversation? |
|
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| Secure for use (6) |
|
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| To occupy oneself, start to fight |
|
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| Occupy (the attention) |
|
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| Reserve and you occupy (6) |
|
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| Hire nag? Gee, that's a change (6) |
|
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| Hold the attention of |
Commuter |
21 May 2024 |
| Undertake to get into gear? (6) |
|
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| Hire, take on (6) |
|
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| Partake (in) |
Universal |
03 May 2024 |
| Employ and captivate (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Apr 2024 |
| Take on (staff)(6) |
|
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| Undertake to be the boss (6) |
|
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| Hire unruly gang in gutless example |
Mirror Cryptic |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Hire |
Mirror Quick |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Hire |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Apr 2024 |
| Not all greengages will be found charming |
|
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| Employ |
Mirror Classic |
05 Apr 2024 |
| How one may take on staff, or an enemy (6) |
|
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| To occupy oneself go into battle |
|
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| Enter into battle with (6) |
|
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| Begin attack against (6) |
|
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| Get in gear to take on the enemy (6) |
|
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| Take part in, as you promise to (6) |
|
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| Captivate, like an audience |
USA Today |
09 Mar 2024 |
| Born with a gag and a promise to wed (6) |
|
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| Employ prospective partner (6) |
|
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| Employ gang busted in first and last escape (6) |
|
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| Employ rotten gag: entertaining, somewhat! |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
09 Feb 2024 |
| Participate in English period |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Jan 2024 |
| Occupy, involve, draw (6) |
|
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| Secure the services of; (of gears) interlock |
The Times Concise |
04 Jan 2024 |
| Hold plum, having lost first three (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
22 Nov 2023 |
| Bring on board |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Oct 2023 |
| Hire |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Oct 2023 |
| Hold the attention of |
USA Today |
14 Oct 2023 |
| Attack plum, getting rid of the top |
The Guardian Cryptic |
22 Aug 2023 |
| Flipping blue gag nearly holds interest |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Aug 2023 |
| Become involved (in) |
The Times Concise |
24 Jun 2023 |
| Hire |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Apr 2023 |
| Captivate |
New York Times |
26 Mar 2023 |
| Get involved |
New York Times |
30 Dec 2022 |
| Employ engineer, mature |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Dec 2022 |
| Order from Captain Picard |
LA Times Daily |
30 Sep 2022 |
| Take part in French joke, eagerly to begin with |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Jul 2022 |
| Employ as a worker |
Irish Times Simplex |
13 Jun 2022 |
| Occupy |
Premier Sunday |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Captivate |
New York Times |
16 Jan 2022 |
| Keep occupied |
Universal |
13 Dec 2021 |
| Command to the helmsman from Jean-Luc Picard |
New York Times |
11 Oct 2021 |
| Get involved |
New York Times |
02 Sep 2021 |
| Attract engineer at a particular stage in life |
|
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| Take on |
The Times Concise |
04 Jul 2021 |
| Attract engineer at a particular stage in life |
|
|
| Operate motor, turning in to outskirts of Augsburg |
|
|
| Hold the attention of |
Universal |
05 May 2021 |
| Hire |
Wall Street Journal |
03 May 2021 |
| Employ as a worker |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Apr 2021 |
| Occupy |
The Washington Post |
26 Mar 2021 |
| Occupy |
LA Times Daily |
26 Mar 2021 |
| Keep occupied |
Jonesin |
16 Mar 2021 |
| Hire |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Feb 2021 |
| Employ language used here for short time |
|
|
| Employ, hire |
The Times Concise |
04 Dec 2020 |
| Politically committed nurse reaching maturity |
|
|
| Retain, as a lawyer |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Nov 2020 |
| Employ part of forbidden gag explicitly |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Aug 2020 |
| Catch the interest of |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jul 2020 |
| Hire |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 May 2020 |
| Hire |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 May 2020 |
| Hold the attention of |
USA Today |
05 May 2020 |
| 'Don't ___' ('Just ignore it!') |
USA Today |
17 Mar 2020 |
| Hire |
Newsday |
22 Dec 2019 |
| Involve, as an audience |
Newsday |
04 Oct 2019 |
| Hire, as an attorney |
USA Today |
29 Sep 2019 |
| Employ part of Halloween gag explicitly |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Sep 2019 |
| Jean-Luc Picard's command to jump to warp speed |
The Washington Post Sunday |
15 Sep 2019 |
| Employ |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Recruit to participate |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Mellow following England's win |
|
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| Take on |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Jun 2019 |
| Capture, as one's attention |
USA Today |
27 Feb 2019 |
| Get involved, good about leaving fruit |
|
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| Capture, as one's attention |
|
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| Take on |
|
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| Hire, as an attorney |
|
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| Hold goose's tail, moving an egg |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Dec 2018 |
| Book |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Oct 2018 |
| Get on with English recruit |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Apr 2018 |
| Promise to participate |
|
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| Captivate |
New York Times |
16 Mar 2018 |
| Take on English date |
|
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| Book |
|
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| Captivate |
|
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| Capture, as one's attention |
|
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| Have the attention of |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2017 |
| Take someone on as a worker |
Irish Times Simplex |
13 Sep 2017 |
| Get on with English recruit |
|
|
| Captivate |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jul 2017 |
| Captivate |
The Washington Post |
20 Jul 2017 |
| Contract for example including name and length of life |
|
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| Put to work unruly gang in the middle of Beed |
|
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| Employ extremes of English language |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 May 2017 |
| Committed, even when having to keep silence |
|
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| Hold the interest of |
Premier Sunday |
01 Jan 2017 |
| Captivate |
|
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| Have the attention of |
|
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| Occupy |
Premier Sunday |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Interlock, as gears |
Universal |
03 Oct 2016 |
| Thief (rhyming slang) |
The Times Concise |
15 Aug 2016 |
| Begin an action against well- organised gang involved in drugs |
|
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| Attract plum work lifting and separating |
|
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| Do battle with |
USA Today |
09 Jun 2016 |
| Hold rapt |
LA Times Daily |
06 May 2016 |
| Employ |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Mar 2016 |
| Enlist and begin fighting |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Mar 2016 |
| 'Star Trek' captain's order |
Jonesin |
23 Feb 2016 |
| Mesh, as gears |
Family Time |
21 Feb 2016 |
| Keep occupied |
Newsday |
08 Jan 2016 |
| Do battle with |
|
|
| Interlock, as gears |
|
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| Hold rapt |
|
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| Put to work |
LA Times Daily |
05 Aug 2015 |
| Pay to serve and start fighting |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
31 May 2015 |
| Commission, say, bringing in new generation |
The Telegraph Toughie |
29 May 2015 |
| Meet in battle and swear to marry? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 May 2015 |
| Occupy (interest) |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Mar 2015 |
| Put to work |
|
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| "Star Trek" captain's order |
|
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| Attract the attention of |
|
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| Enter into conflict |
|
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| Mesh, as gears |
|
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| Employ criminal gang to get into drugs |
|
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| Put to work |
|
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| Word said by movie fighter pilots while locking on to a target |
|
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| Hire |
|
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| Begin a conversation with |
|
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| Become interlocked, as gears |
|
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| Hold rapt |
|
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| Employ |
|
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| Hire |
|
|
| Mesh, as gears |
|
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| Mesh gears |
|
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| Interlock |
|
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| More than interest |
|
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| Have the attention of |
|
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| Captivate |
|
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| More than interest |
|
|
| Become interlocked, as gears |
|
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| Mesh, like gears |
|
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| Charter |
|
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| Put under contract |
|
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| Interlock, as gears |
|
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| Interlock, as gears |
|
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| Mesh gears |
|
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| Have the attention of |
|
|
| Mesh, like gears |
|
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| Mesh with |
|
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| Put to work |
|
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| Put in gear |
|
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| Take on |
|
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| Take on |
|
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| Have the attention of |
|
|
| Betroth |
|
|
| Hire |
|
|
| Mesh |
|
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| What gears do |
|
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| Hire |
|
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| Interlock, as gears |
|
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| Occupy |
|
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| Charter |
|
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| Occupy |
|
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| Charter |
|
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| Mesh, as gears |
|
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| Enter into conflict |
|
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| Switch on |
|
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| Participate |
|
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| Attract |
|
|
| Occupy |
|
|
| Switch on |
|
|
| Capture, as one's attention |
|
|
| Participate |
|
|
| Betroth |
|
|
| Mesh, as gears |
|
|
| Become involved (in) |
|
|
| Become involved (in) |
|
|
| Employ |
|
|
| Hold rapt |
|
|
| Hire |
|
|
| Take part (in) |
|
|
| Reserve |
|
|
| Hire |
|
|
| Affiance |
|
|
| ___ in: take part in |
|
|
| Affiance |
|
|
| Involve |
|
|
| Hire |
|
|
| Bring into operation |
|
|
| Occupy |
|
|
| Mesh, as gears |
|
|
| Mesh |
|
|
| Do battle with |
|
|
| Grip |
|
|
| Provide occupation for |
|
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| Interlock |
|
|
| Participate (in). |
|
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| Take part (in). |
|
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| Hire. |
|
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| Pledge. |
|
|
| Enter into conflict with. |
|
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| Involve. |
|
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| Join battle. |
|
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| Employ. |
|
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| Put under pledge. |
|
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| Get involved with |
|
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| Hire |
|
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| Become involved. |
|
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| Promise. |
|
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| Pledge in marriage. |
|
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| Pledge oneself. |
|
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| Occupy. |
|
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| Betroth. |
|
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