| Guitarist's accessory |
Universal |
18 Oct 2025 |
| Plectrum |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
17 Oct 2025 |
| Select hand tool (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Harvest (4) |
Mirror Quick |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Guitar strumming need |
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| Choose a good tool (4) |
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| The epicure's choice, does one hear? (4) |
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| Single out a guitar player (4) |
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| Mining tool |
The Times Concise |
23 May 2025 |
| "The ___-Up Artist"; movie for Molly Ringwald |
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| Select |
Universal |
18 May 2025 |
| Select miner's tool (4) |
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| Best shot last in break |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 May 2025 |
| Choose |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 May 2025 |
| Choose a digging implement (4) |
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| Choice tool - no axe (4) |
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| Choice |
New York Times |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Choose, opt (4) |
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| Guitarist's implement |
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| Select tool for breaking up hard ground (4) |
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| Select |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Feb 2025 |
| This is the account for a battle-axe (4) |
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| Choose, select |
Mirror Tea Time |
27 Jan 2025 |
| To open a lock without a key |
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| The best one |
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| With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Select tool for breaking up the ground (4) |
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| Select |
Mirror Classic |
03 Jan 2025 |
| Select |
The Times Sunday Concise |
15 Dec 2024 |
| The best start |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Dec 2024 |
| Select an implement (4) |
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| Select a hand tool |
Mirror Cryptic |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Harvest |
Mirror Quick |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Elite ground-breaking tool (4) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
27 Nov 2024 |
| Choose or pluck a guitar |
Family Time |
11 Nov 2024 |
| What guitarist or earthbreaker might choose (4) |
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| Selection tool (4) |
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| A pointed probe or tool; a plectrum; or, a portion plucked (4) |
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| Choose something for groundbreaking work (4) |
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| Choose a tool for excavating (4) |
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| Choose to break new ground? |
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| Select a plectrum |
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| (Draft [?) up] |
USA Today Quick |
29 Aug 2024 |
| (Draft [___ up] |
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| Select hand tool |
Mirror Cryptic |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Harvest |
Mirror Quick |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Select |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Aug 2024 |
| The very best of the tools? (4) |
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| Select, choose (4) |
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| Choose pointed tool (4) |
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| Choose something sharp (4) |
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| Draft _ (valuable sports commodity) |
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| Guitarist's accessory |
Universal |
06 Jun 2024 |
| Choose the best tool to open lock |
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| Guitar accessory |
Thomas Joseph |
24 May 2024 |
| Select participant in Olympic kayaking (4) |
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| Choose an implement (4) |
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| Choose |
Universal |
01 May 2024 |
| The best? It's groundbreaking |
The Guardian Cryptic |
22 Apr 2024 |
| The best? It's groundbreaking (4) |
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| London Transport Board CEO who commissioned LU's distinctive roundel and typeface branding (5, 4) |
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| Choose tool for digging |
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| ___ of the litter |
USA Today |
01 Apr 2024 |
| Choose a tool for loosening soil and breaking rocks (4) |
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| Select hand tool |
Mirror Cryptic |
20 Mar 2024 |
| Choose |
Mirror Quick |
20 Mar 2024 |
| Choose it to find the gaps between one's teeth? (4) |
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| Select a rock-breaking tool (4) |
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| Choose |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jan 2024 |
| Select the best tool |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Choose |
Commuter |
08 Jan 2024 |
| Choose |
Mirror Tea Time |
02 Jan 2024 |
| Choose |
Commuter |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Ice-breaking utensil |
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| Choose |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Dec 2023 |
| Choose; tool for breaking ground (4) |
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| Mining tool |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Sep 2023 |
| "I've got a bone to ___ with you" |
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| Choose |
USA Today |
30 Jul 2023 |
| Plectrum |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Jun 2023 |
| Ice breaker at a party |
Newsday |
22 Apr 2023 |
| Select |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Mar 2023 |
| Choose, select |
The Times Concise |
23 Dec 2022 |
| Guitarist's accessory |
New York Times |
14 Dec 2022 |
| ___ and choose |
USA Today |
12 Nov 2022 |
| Guitar accessory |
LA Times Daily |
19 Oct 2022 |
| Heavy tool with a wooden handle and a curved iron head, pointed at both ends |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Oct 2022 |
| Choose |
Newsday |
11 Oct 2022 |
| Make a selection |
Newsday |
21 Sep 2022 |
| Choose possession of miner, say |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Apr 2022 |
| Select tool |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Apr 2022 |
| Go for; tool |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Nov 2021 |
| "Take your ___" |
Universal |
15 Oct 2021 |
| "___ your battles" |
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| Selection |
The Washington Post |
27 May 2021 |
| Selection |
LA Times Daily |
27 May 2021 |
| Choose |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Apr 2021 |
| Guitar strummer |
Universal |
24 Mar 2021 |
| Choice digging tool |
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| As yet not in tipsy cake by choice |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Choice |
The Times Concise |
10 May 2020 |
| Choose, select |
The Times Concise |
25 Apr 2020 |
| Guitarist's tool |
USA Today |
22 Apr 2020 |
| Choice |
USA Today |
24 Mar 2020 |
| Choose |
USA Today |
02 Mar 2020 |
| Guitar accessory |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Feb 2020 |
| Single out that's groundbreaking? |
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| Best tool |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Feb 2020 |
| As yet not in tipsy cake with cream |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Dec 2019 |
| Banjo accessory |
Newsday |
03 Nov 2019 |
| Choose |
Newsday |
29 Oct 2019 |
| Tiny tool that Slash might use to pluck guitar strings with precision |
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| Go with |
The New Yorker |
09 Sep 2019 |
| 25-Down-styling tool |
USA Today |
09 Aug 2019 |
| Note in contract for firing agent |
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| Prospector's tool |
The Washington Post |
24 Jun 2019 |
| Prospector's tool |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jun 2019 |
| Choose |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Jun 2019 |
| . Best to take pawn for knight |
|
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| Select film that's mentioned |
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| Plectrum used by guitarists |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
14 Apr 2019 |
| "___ a card, any card..." (choose) |
|
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| Prospector's tool |
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| 25-Down-styling tool |
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| Choose something a miner would select? |
|
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| Take small bits out of tipsy cake lacking yeast |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Word after ice or draft |
USA Today |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Best shot last one of break |
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| Opt for |
Premier Sunday |
25 Mar 2018 |
| "Fall is the season when apples are ripe to ___." |
|
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| Word after ice or draft |
|
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| Miner's or guitarist's need |
USA Today |
04 Jul 2017 |
| Choose a mountaineering accessory |
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| Select |
Family Time |
19 Feb 2017 |
| Miner's or guitarist's need |
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| See 53-Across |
New York Times |
09 Dec 2016 |
| Harvest vegetables |
Newsday |
16 Nov 2016 |
| Draft item often traded |
LA Times Daily |
29 Sep 2016 |
| Choose to sleep around, caught making penetration |
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| Go for a tool to break up rocks |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Sep 2016 |
| Select tool |
|
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| Choose |
Premier Sunday |
26 Jun 2016 |
| Select |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Jun 2016 |
| Select; tool |
The Times Concise |
03 Jun 2016 |
| Select best tool for digging |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Apr 2016 |
| Choose film with shock ending |
|
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| Choose |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Jan 2016 |
| Choose the tool |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Jan 2016 |
| Choose |
Family Time |
17 Jan 2016 |
| See 53-Across |
|
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| Draft item often traded |
|
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| Item in a guitar case |
The Washington Post |
20 Dec 2015 |
| What may help break the ice |
New York Times |
28 Sep 2015 |
| Rejected batsman bags century against India – what do selectors do? |
|
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| Play the banjo |
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| Choose |
|
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| Guitar player's tool |
|
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| What may help break the ice |
|
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| Choose a tool |
|
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| Guitar-playing tool |
|
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| "___ a card, any card . . ." |
|
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| Select |
|
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| Elect |
|
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| Ice breaker |
|
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| Choose |
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| Plectrum |
|
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| Choose |
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| Elect |
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| Select |
|
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| Sourdough's ground breaker |
|
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| Sourdough's ground breaker |
|
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| Item for a guitarist or a prospector |
|
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| Elect |
|
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| Horse on a ticket |
|
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| Ice breaker |
|
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| Prospector's tool |
|
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| Provoke, as a fight |
|
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| Icebreaker |
|
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| Forty-niner's tool |
|
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| Choice |
|
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| Choose |
|
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| Prospector's tool |
|
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| Draft __ |
|
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| Miner's tool |
|
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| Best one |
|
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| Draft __ |
|
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| Prospector's tool |
|
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| Fantasy draft choice |
|
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| Miner's tool |
|
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| Go with |
|
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| Make a selection |
|
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| Select |
|
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| Stop on "moe" |
|
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| Roll's partner |
|
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| Decide upon wide-toothed comb (4) |
|
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| Forty-niner's equipment |
|
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| Choose |
|
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| Alternative to a key |
|
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| Guitar accessory |
|
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| Ice breaker |
|
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| Basketball ploy |
|
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| Dentist's tool |
|
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| Basketball maneuver |
|
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| "___ a card, any card..." |
|
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| Choice |
|
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| Guitarist's tool |
|
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| Eat like a bird |
|
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| Ice breaker |
|
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| Select tool |
|
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| Stop on "moe!" |
|
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| Select |
|
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| Tease, with "on" |
|
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| Work gang tool |
|
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| Guitar-playing tool |
|
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| Choice |
|
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| Prospector's tool |
|
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| Basketball maneuver |
|
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| Road-gang tool |
|
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| Select |
|
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| Shovel's partner |
|
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| Use a plectrum |
|
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| Device for ice or nuts |
|
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| Plectrum |
|
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| Do a pocket job |
|
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| Pointed tool. |
|
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| Choose. |
|
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| Best: Colloq. |
|
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| Partner of choose. |
|
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| Tool. |
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| Metal tool. |
|
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| Choice. |
|
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| Pointed tool |
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| Plectrum. |
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| ___ and Pat, radio comedians. |
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| Miner's tool. |
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| Top engineer of the Army. |
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