| Given bribes as overcome by avarice (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
22 Jul 2025 |
| Cupidity as included when bribed (7) |
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| Smeared, lubricated. (7) |
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| Quick as such lightning to be lubricated (7) |
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| Gifted money with morally questionable motivation, as in greed (7) |
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| Covered with oil |
Universal |
26 Dec 2024 |
| Word before "lightning" or "pig" |
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| Is bribed, as when being involved in cupidity (7) |
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| Prepped a cookie sheet, perhaps |
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| Smoothed the way, ... the wheels |
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| Lubricated |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Oct 2024 |
| Given lubrication, outer parts of gear moved smoothly |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
30 Jul 2024 |
| A palm so lubricated as to accept a bribe (7) |
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| Oiled, lubricated (7) |
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| Like some cookie sheets |
USA Today |
13 Apr 2024 |
| Was bribed, as is apparent in avarice (7) |
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| Given bribes as overcome by avarice (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
29 Nov 2023 |
| Readied, as a baking pan |
LA Times Daily |
16 Jun 2023 |
| Like some cookie sheets |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Nov 2022 |
| See 9 |
The Guardian Cryptic |
31 Mar 2022 |
| No longer noisy, perhaps |
Newsday |
28 Jan 2022 |
| Hard to handle, in a way |
Newsday |
04 Jul 2020 |
| Like a 13- Across, perhaps |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Sep 2018 |
| A son beset by hunger will be lubricated |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Jun 2018 |
| Smoothened the operation as greed played out |
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| Lubricated |
The Times Concise |
18 Jul 2017 |
| Ends of governor moved freely, having been treated thus? |
The Times Cryptic |
12 Dec 2016 |
| Fervent desire to scoff when lubricated |
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| Bribed, so to speak |
The Washington Post |
17 Mar 2016 |
| Did a garage job |
USA Today |
16 Mar 2016 |
| Coated key piece of metal with arsenic on the inside |
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| Lubricated |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 May 2015 |
| A society beset by avarice given more freedom of action? |
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| John Travolta "___ Lightning" |
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| Like some cookie sheets |
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| Like some pigs at a fair |
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| Worked on axles |
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| Like quiet wheels |
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| Bribed |
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| Lubricated |
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| Bribed, so to speak |
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| ___ the palm (bribed) |
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| Lubricated |
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| Bribed |
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| Like ___ lightning |
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| Like a contest pig |
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| Did a car job. |
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| Lubricated. |
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| Did a garage job. |
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