| --> to ____" with Bullock and Jackson |
USA Today Quick |
27 Jul 2026 |
| Slay |
USA Today Quick |
18 Jun 2026 |
| Road -, 1994 Jack Ketchum novel also published as Joyride (4) |
Mirror Quiz |
04 Mar 2026 |
| Deprive of life (4) |
Mirror Classic |
24 Jan 2026 |
| ____ time, relieve boredom |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
20 Jan 2026 |
| & 20D 2011 horror film starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and MyAnna Buring (4,4) |
Mirror Quiz |
20 Dec 2025 |
| Destroy (4) |
Puzzler |
11 Dec 2025 |
| "If looks could ____ ..." |
The Telegraph Mini |
19 Nov 2025 |
| Dispatch |
The Atlantic |
17 Oct 2025 |
| Slay (4) |
Mirror Classic |
13 Oct 2025 |
| Destroy (4) |
Puzzler |
21 Sep 2025 |
| Slay (4) |
Mirror Classic |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Deprive of life or vitality (4) |
The Sun Mini |
21 Jul 2025 |
| Slay (4) |
Mirror Classic |
20 Jun 2025 |
| Two-part film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, ___-- Bill (4) |
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| Murder |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 May 2025 |
| Licence to ___, 1989 Bond film (4) |
|
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| Novel, To - a Mockingbird |
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| To - A Mockingbird, Harper Lee novel (4) |
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| To ___ a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck film (4) |
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| Slaughter makes king sick (4) |
|
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| Tarantino film ___ Bill |
|
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| Slay, as a mosquito |
Family Time |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Dressed to ___ (wearing fancy clothes) |
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| Film by Quentin Tarantino in two volumes (4,4) |
|
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| To slay (4) |
|
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| "___ Bill: Vol. 1"; 2003 Uma Thurman film |
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| Destroy |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Dec 2024 |
| Last word in the titles of two 1980s James Bond films |
New York Times |
06 Dec 2024 |
| Take another's life |
|
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| Slay |
Mirror Classic |
20 Nov 2024 |
| Slay |
The Times Concise |
12 Nov 2024 |
| Slaughter someone in Helsinki, Lloyd (4) |
|
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| Thousand I will shortly destroy (4) |
|
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| Pass idly, as time |
New York Times |
28 Oct 2024 |
| With 109-Across, SZA song about a Buffalo player? |
|
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| Execute or finished work badly (4) |
|
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| "___ Bill" (SZA song with a Tarantino-inspired music video) |
|
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| Slay, slaughter or liquidate |
|
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| Turn off stifle |
|
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| 2003 film, "____ Bill: Volume 1" |
USA Today Quick |
03 Jul 2024 |
| Two-part film by Quentin Tarantino, ___- Bill (4) |
|
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| Slay |
Mirror Classic |
13 May 2024 |
| Decide not to run |
LA Times Daily |
19 Apr 2024 |
| Assassinate king? Sick! (4) |
|
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| Slay |
Mirror Classic |
30 Mar 2024 |
| Were one's expressions a lethal weapon! (2,5,5,4) |
|
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| Cause the death of (4) |
|
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| Joy follows this as far as the spoil-sport is concerned (4) |
|
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| Turn off, as lights |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Feb 2024 |
| Terminate king and I will follow |
Mirror Cryptic |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Assassinate |
Mirror Quick |
04 Feb 2024 |
| A thousand I will murder |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
01 Feb 2024 |
| A View to a ___, Bond film (4) |
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| Tarantino movie series about a vengeful bride (4,4) |
|
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| "To ___ a Mockingbird," Harper Lee novel |
|
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| Put the kibosh on |
Newsday |
05 Oct 2023 |
| Put the kibosh on |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Sep 2023 |
| Harper Lee's "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
|
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| Crush it, at an open mic night |
USA Today |
23 Apr 2023 |
| "I've got time to ___" (free time) |
|
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| Veto |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Mar 2023 |
| Nail, as a stand-up routine |
Universal |
15 Jan 2023 |
| Crush (it) |
New York Times |
12 Oct 2022 |
| "The ___ Hole," 2012 action thriller starring Chadwick Boseman as an Iraq War vet |
|
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| "Generation ___," HBO miniseries starring Lee Tergesen that won three Emmys in 2009 |
|
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| Slaughter |
The Guardian Quick |
08 Jan 2022 |
| What looks can't do? |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2021 |
| Cancel, as a story |
Universal |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Wipe out |
The Guardian Quick |
04 Nov 2021 |
| While away, as time |
|
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| Slay |
|
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| '___ them with kindness' |
USA Today |
30 Apr 2021 |
| Dressed to ___ |
Universal |
29 Apr 2021 |
| "Dressed to —" |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Feb 2021 |
| Be wildly successful, as at a comedy club |
New York Times |
05 Feb 2021 |
| Turn off, so to speak |
|
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| "If Looks Could ___," 1991 movie starring Richard Grieco |
|
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| Slaughter, murder |
The Times Concise |
11 Dec 2020 |
| Switch off, as lights |
|
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| Switch off |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Sep 2020 |
| Bond film "Licence to ___" |
|
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| Murder |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Jul 2020 |
| King unwell while away |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Jul 2020 |
| What thou shalt not do |
Family Time |
22 Jun 2020 |
| Decide not to run |
LA Times Daily |
17 Jun 2020 |
| Decide not to run |
|
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| Put the kibosh on |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 May 2020 |
| "Dressed to ___," 2009 song by Preston which was covered by Cher in 2013 |
|
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| "___ two birds with one stone" (achieve more at once) |
|
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| "If looks could ___ ..." |
Universal |
31 Mar 2020 |
| While away |
LA Times Daily |
20 Mar 2020 |
| While away |
|
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| Harper Lee's "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
|
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| Cause to die |
|
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| Scrub, as a story |
|
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| Kiss and tell by the banks in Kildare |
|
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| Veto |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Sep 2019 |
| Murder |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Sep 2019 |
| Switch off, as a light |
USA Today |
30 Aug 2019 |
| "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
Universal |
18 Aug 2019 |
| "A View to a ____" (Bond film) |
|
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| Destroy |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jul 2019 |
| Pass idly, as time |
LA Times Daily |
22 Jul 2019 |
| Pass idly, as time |
|
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| Kay and Dicky to the locals in Kildare |
|
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| "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
Family Time |
10 Feb 2019 |
| Switch off, as a light |
|
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| "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
|
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| Pass idly, as time |
|
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| Veto |
|
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| "A View To A ___," James Bond movie |
|
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| Top knight run down |
|
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| Slay, as a dragon |
Family Time |
06 Aug 2018 |
| Bond film "Licence to ___" |
|
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| Execute |
|
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| Last word of two James Bond film titles |
|
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| Last word of two James Bond film titles |
LA Times Daily |
31 Mar 2018 |
| Shut off, as an engine |
USA Today |
16 Mar 2018 |
| Polish off fish food right away? |
|
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| Turn off, as lights |
|
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| Last word of two James Bond film titles |
|
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| Extinguish |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Dec 2017 |
| Slay |
Universal |
12 Aug 2017 |
| 'Dressed to ' |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 Jun 2017 |
| See 20-Down |
|
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| See 20-Down |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jun 2017 |
| Turn off, as the lights |
Wall Street Journal |
20 May 2017 |
| Polish off local scotch? |
|
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| Slay |
|
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| See 20-Down |
|
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| While away, as time |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jul 2016 |
| "__ the ump!" |
Universal |
25 Apr 2016 |
| Excel at stand-up comedy, in slang |
|
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| Shut off |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Mar 2016 |
| 'To a Mockingbird' |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Mar 2016 |
| Veto |
|
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| Veto |
Universal |
18 Jan 2016 |
| Veto |
|
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| While away, as time |
|
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| Switch off |
New York Times |
08 Feb 2015 |
| Slay |
The Times Concise |
20 Jan 2015 |
| Switch off |
|
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| Unreturnable smash |
|
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| Extinguish |
|
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| Put an end to king's misfortune |
|
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| Waste talent? Not at first |
|
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| Cancel, as a newspaper story |
|
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| 'To -- a Mockingbird' |
|
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| Decide not to run |
|
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| Excel at standup comedy |
|
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| Slay |
|
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| Turn off, as the lights |
|
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| Decide not to run |
|
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| Turn off, as the lights |
|
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| Put the kibosh on |
|
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| Dispatch |
|
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| Deadly Jimmy Eat World song? |
|
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| Pass idly, as time |
|
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| Quash, as a news story |
|
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| ___ switch |
|
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| Cancel publication of |
|
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| Deadly 30 Seconds to Mars song, "The ___" |
|
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| Eat the last of |
|
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| "A View to a ___" (Bond film) |
|
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| Successful volleyball spike |
|
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| Creek, in some place names |
|
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| Block passage of |
|
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| Waste, as time |
|
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| Pass idly, as time |
|
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| Wicked volleyball hit |
|
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| Cancel, as a news story |
|
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| John Grisham's "A Time to ___" |
|
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| "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
|
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| Waste, as time |
|
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| Veto |
|
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| Cancel, as an article |
|
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| Do well as a stand-up |
|
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| Stop, as a newspaper story |
|
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| "Thou shalt not ___" |
|
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| Stop, as a newspaper story |
|
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| Veto |
|
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| Pass unprofitably, as time |
|
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| Unreturnable volleyball shot |
|
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| Pass unprofitably, as time |
|
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| Waste, as time |
|
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| Do a hit man's job |
|
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| Take out |
|
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| Off |
|
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| Cancel, as a newspaper story |
|
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| Cancel, as a newspaper story |
|
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| What thou shalt not |
|
|
| Put the kibosh on |
|
|
| "A View to a ___" |
|
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| Slay |
|
|
| Put the kibosh on |
|
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| "Thou shalt not ___" |
|
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| Do away with |
|
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| Stop a story |
|
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| Scrap, as a proposal |
|
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| Scrap, as a proposal |
|
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| Waste, as time |
|
|
| Veto |
|
|
| Stop, as a newspaper story |
|
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| "___ the umpire!" (stadium shout) |
|
|
| Switch off, slangily |
|
|
| Hunter's pride |
|
|
| Cancel |
|
|
| Hit |
|
|
| "___ Bill" (2003) |
|
|
| Do in |
|
|
| Cancel, as an order |
|
|
| "A View to a ___" (Bond film) |
|
|
| Put to the sword |
|
|
| Put the kibosh on |
|
|
| Dressed to _____ |
|
|
| "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
|
|
| Destroy |
|
|
| Deprive of life |
|
|
| Waste, as time |
|
|
| Cancel, a la an editor |
|
|
| ___ time: idle |
|
|
| While away, as time |
|
|
| Veto |
|
|
| "___ the ump!" |
|
|
| Unreturnable volleyball shot |
|
|
| Slay |
|
|
| Do in |
|
|
| "To ___ a Mockingbird" |
|
|
| Veto |
|
|
| Stop, as a story |
|
|
| Do a hit man's job |
|
|
| Successful volleyball spike |
|
|
| Extinguish |
|
|
| Rub out |
|
|
| Extinguish |
|
|
| Hunter's take |
|
|
| Vote down |
|
|
| Dispatch |
|
|
| Veto |
|
|
| " . . . let's ___ all the lawyers": Shak. |
|
|
| Veto a bill |
|
|
| Pass idly, as time |
|
|
| What pollutants may do |
|
|
| Vote down a bill |
|
|
| Tennis smash |
|
|
| ___ Van Kull |
|
|
| Throw out, as type |
|
|
| Creek |
|
|
| Display total pwnage |
|
|
| Stream: Used in place names. |
|
|
| Defeat or veto, as a bill. |
|
|
| Hit hard, in sports. |
|
|
| Stream or creek. |
|
|
| Veto. |
|
|
| Leave an audience in the aisles, say |
|
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| Delete, as newspaper type |
|
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| Defeat or veto as a legislative bill. |
|
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| To consume, as time. |
|
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