| Money paid to free a hostage (6) |
Puzzler |
25 Aug 2025 |
| Payment for a hostage |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Jul 2025 |
| King's ___, huge sum of money |
Puzzler Backwords |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Bad return policy? |
New York Times |
15 Jun 2025 |
| Money for manor's renovation (6) |
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| 1996 film thriller starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo |
Mirror Quiz |
30 May 2025 |
| What distressed Romans may be held to (6) |
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| Rescue price, maybe |
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| Republican moans about the price of freedom? |
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| Pay-off managed in this way by Mike (6) |
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| Mel Gibson/Gary Sinise thriller |
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| 1996 film thriller starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo |
Mirror Quiz |
23 Mar 2025 |
| Price demanded for release |
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| Payment for a hostage |
Puzzler Backwords |
28 Feb 2025 |
| Paid to kidnappers so no arms get broken? |
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| Payment made to kidnappers (6) |
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| Romans' money (6) |
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| Kidnapper's payment |
Mirror Classic |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Money paid for the release of a hostage |
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| Managed to get some - but not all - money paid to kidnappers |
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| Sum demanded for certain manors |
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| A charge for delivery (6) |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
Commuter |
09 Jan 2025 |
| What you may pay to go free on Mars, perhaps (6) |
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| Payment exacted from the Romans? (6) |
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| King's ___ |
New York Times |
02 Jan 2025 |
| Money paid to kidnappers so that a prisoner can be set free (6) |
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| Money demanded by the Romans perhaps? (6) |
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| Gibson/Russo film |
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| No free man would be held to this (6) |
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| Passed over money to secure son's freedom (6) |
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| Kidnap payout (6) |
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| Extortionate amount? (6) |
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| Price paid for release of Romans (6) |
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| A sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive (6) |
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| Charge the prisoner is held to (6) |
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| Redeem from captivity |
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| No arms payment to get the hostage back (6) |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
Mirror Classic |
01 Nov 2024 |
| Norma's arranged the place of freedom (6) |
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| A kidnapper's demand (6) |
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| At heart. veteran so mean to demand payment (6) |
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| Release fee (6) |
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| Kind of note that might be made with cut out magazine letters |
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| Money that's extorted |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Aug 2024 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
The Times Concise |
05 Aug 2024 |
| King's ___, huge sum of money |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Money paid to have a kidnapped person set free (6) |
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| Kidnapper's fee (6) |
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| Sum of money demanded for the release of a captive hidden on catamaran, somewhere |
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| The price of saving derelict manors (6) |
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| Money paid for the freeing of a hostage (6) |
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| Payment for a hostage |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Jun 2024 |
| Payment for redemption (6) |
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| Payment for freedom (6) |
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| Kidnap payment (6) |
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| Charge associated with kidnapping (6) |
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| On Mars, perhaps, one could refuse to be held to it (6) |
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| Kidnappers' payment (6) |
Mirror Classic |
29 Apr 2024 |
| Money demanded by a kidnapper (6) |
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| Buy the freedom of |
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| Buy freedom in Iran somehow |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Apr 2024 |
| Release payment |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Apr 2024 |
| Price demanded by captor |
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| Got a move on, apparently by blackmail (6) |
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| Norma's asking an extortionate price for this one! |
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| Money for release of Romans (6) |
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| Supremo's narcissism holding rescue back |
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| Rescue payment |
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| Romans upset by a demand for cash (6) |
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| Payment demanded by youth thief? (6) |
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| Kidnapper's request |
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| It may involve a note |
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| Money paid to free a hostage |
Puzzler Backwords |
12 Jan 2024 |
| Managed to some extent some money for payment to criminal (6) |
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| Payment demanded for the release of 2 down |
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| Money that Phil Mitchell and Sharon Watts paid for Albie's return in EastEnders (6) |
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| Extortionate price asked for one kept on Mars |
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| Extortion money (6) |
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| Demand to be released |
The Guardian Cryptic |
28 Aug 2023 |
| Kidnap cost |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Aug 2023 |
| King's ___ (large sum of money) |
Universal |
16 Aug 2023 |
| Romans adjusted price of freedom |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Jun 2023 |
| Payment for the release of someone or something |
Irish Times Simplex |
26 Apr 2023 |
| Hostage money |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Sep 2022 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
LA Times Daily |
20 Sep 2022 |
| Amazon creator's cut, an extortionate sum |
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| Price of freedom? |
Universal |
08 Jul 2022 |
| Sounds like children's author demanded money |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Jun 2022 |
| Money demanded for release of answer held in memory |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Jun 2022 |
| Money paid for release |
The Times Concise |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Money for freedom |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Feb 2022 |
| Release money |
LA Times Daily |
06 Feb 2022 |
| Release money |
The Washington Post |
06 Feb 2022 |
| Redemption money a children’s author talked of |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Nov 2021 |
| Presumably, this is the free money that is paid in return for what's been taken |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Sep 2021 |
| Hurried a bit, nearly producing kidnapper's demand |
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| Money for release |
The Times Concise |
24 Jun 2021 |
| Payment for the release of someone or something |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Jun 2021 |
| Free, in a way, but it comes at a cost |
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| US poet's redemption |
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| Organised amount reportedly for Shanghai? |
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| Release payment |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Apr 2021 |
| Buy freedom in Iran somehow |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Apr 2021 |
| Veteran sommelier pocketing pay–off |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Price demanded to remove top of fanlight in America |
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| 1996 Mel Gibson film |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Jan 2021 |
| Automaker Olds |
Newsday |
29 Jan 2021 |
| Free with money? |
The Sun Two Speed |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Lost on Mars? For such a fee, this will get you back! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
29 Dec 2020 |
| Did career thus mark the price of freedom? |
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| Buy freedom in Tehran somewhere |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Nov 2020 |
| Managed rumoured amount that's needed for release |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Nov 2020 |
| Take Freemason's money in return for hostages |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
The Washington Post |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
Family Time |
08 Jun 2020 |
| Money demanded from Romans — outrageous |
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| Cash for release charged, a bit short |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 May 2020 |
| Buy a way out from Cwmbran somehow |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Feb 2020 |
| Payment for release |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Feb 2020 |
| Money demanded for release |
The Times Concise |
25 Oct 2019 |
| Getty money in ''All the Money in the World'' |
Newsday |
05 Oct 2019 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Sep 2019 |
| Price of freedom |
New York Times |
24 Sep 2019 |
| Sons in manor surprisingly free with money? |
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| Hurried to get ordered amount for kidnapper's payoff |
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| Demand from a kidnapper |
Premier Sunday |
07 Apr 2019 |
| Abductor's demand |
USA Today |
21 Mar 2019 |
| $2 million, in a 1996 film (or the film's title) |
The Washington Post Sunday |
10 Mar 2019 |
| A liberating demand from strange Romans |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Feb 2019 |
| Abductor's demand |
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| Price of freedom |
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| Coerced payment |
LA Times Daily |
31 Dec 2018 |
| Coerced payment |
The Washington Post |
31 Dec 2018 |
| Payment for the release of someone |
Irish Times Simplex |
29 Aug 2018 |
| Subject of hostage negotiation talks |
The Washington Post Sunday |
26 Aug 2018 |
| Wanting drug, smuggled a bit for dirty money |
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| Payment for hijacked data |
USA Today |
04 Aug 2018 |
| Kidnap price |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Apr 2018 |
| Coerced payment |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Mar 2018 |
| Holding charge |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2018 |
| Holding charge |
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| Payment for hijacked data |
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| Coerced payment |
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| Hostage money |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Right man so wrong for hostage payment |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Return fee? |
New York Times |
19 Nov 2017 |
| Delivery charges? |
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| Managed thus to get millions as price to be paid |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Jul 2017 |
| King's __ (much money) |
Newsday |
13 Jun 2017 |
| See 7 |
The Guardian Speedy |
10 Jun 2017 |
| Payment to kidnapper |
The Guardian Speedy |
20 May 2017 |
| Return fare? |
New York Times |
11 May 2017 |
| Unreliable Roman's demand for liberation |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Feb 2017 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
Universal |
23 Jan 2017 |
| Return fare? |
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| Return fee? |
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| Extorted money and smuggled a bit out of Spain |
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| Free Roman's demand for liberation |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Nov 2016 |
| Kidnapper's demand |
USA Today |
24 Sep 2016 |
| Duffel bag filler, in a thriller |
LA Times Daily |
25 Aug 2016 |
| Managed little reportedly towards price to pay |
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| Return payment? |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jun 2016 |
| ___ note |
New York Times |
24 Apr 2016 |
| Kidnap demand |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Apr 2016 |
| Recovery monies trickled down a little? Not quite! |
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| Go beyond (a level) |
The Times Concise |
08 Mar 2016 |
| Illicit sum |
New York Times |
28 Feb 2016 |
| Payment of a sort |
The Washington Post |
09 Feb 2016 |
| Duffel bag filler, in a thriller |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Writer falling short of kidnapper's demand |
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| Payment for a return |
LA Times Daily |
19 Aug 2015 |
| Redeeming feature of a kidnapping |
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| 1996 Gibson/Sinise flick |
Jonesin |
11 Jun 2015 |
| Save crumbling manors |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Jun 2015 |
| Means to release prisoner Romans maltreated |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Mar 2015 |
| King's __ (much money) |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Payment for a return |
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| The price of freedom? |
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| Payment for freedom managed like this with money |
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| Release payment |
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| Took flight, thus, with miles to redeem |
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| Pre-release demand |
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| Return payment? |
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| Pre-release demand |
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| Veteran sometimes pockets money from reluctant donor |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Pirate's demand |
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| Release payment |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Abductor's demand |
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| Abductor's demand |
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| Payment for release |
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| King's __ (large amount of money) |
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| Free, but not for free |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| King's __ |
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| King's __ |
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| Money of exchange |
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| Contingency for release |
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| 1956 Glenn Ford film remade in 1996 |
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| Return payment? |
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| Suitcase contents, in some thrillers |
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| Forced fee for freedom |
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| 1996 Mel Gibson film |
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| Pre-release demand |
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| 1996 Mel Gibson film |
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| Pre-release demand |
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| Rate of return? |
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| Dropped money? |
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| 1956 Glenn Ford crime drama |
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| 1996 movie with the tagline "Someone is going to pay" |
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| Money in the bag, maybe |
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| Kidnappers' demand |
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| Kidnap demand |
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| Price of redemption |
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| Buy back |
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| King's ___ (large amount of money) |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Money left at a secret location, maybe |
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| REDEMPTION FOR A PRICE |
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| REDEMPTION FOR A PRICE |
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| 1996 Ron Howard thriller |
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| 1996 film directed by Ron Howard |
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| Free money? |
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| Contingency for release |
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| Carmaker Olds's first name |
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| Contingency for release |
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| 1996 Mel Gibson film |
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| 1996 Mel Gibson movie |
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| Money on demand? |
|
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| 1996 Mel Gibson film |
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| Captive's cost |
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| Rescue price, perhaps |
|
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| Part of REO |
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| Redemption money a children's author talked of |
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| Money in a paper bag, maybe |
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| Kidnapper's payoff |
|
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| Mel Gibson film |
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| Mel Gibson flick |
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| Price of redemption |
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| Mel Gibson flick |
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| Redemption price |
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| '96 Mel Gibson flick |
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| With 41-Across, kidnapper's correspondence |
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| Kidnapper's demand |
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| Redeem |
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| Unfortunate price to pay |
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| Redeem, in a way |
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| Purchase release |
|
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| Bucks for captives |
|
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| King's _____ |
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| Liberation |
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| Deliverance |
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| Novel by Jay McInerney |
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| Redeem |
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| Kidnapper's objective |
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| O. Henry's "The ___ of Red Chief" |
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| Poet John Crowe ___ |
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| Payoff of a sort |
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| Price for Red Chief |
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| Kidnapper's concern |
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| Redeem the hard way |
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| Payment of a sort. |
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| Cash on demand? |
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| Figure in a kidnapping case |
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| Price of freedom? |
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| Buy out of bondage. |
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| Cost of redeeming a hostage. |
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| Redemption fee. |
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| Pay in a way |
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| Redemption of a kind. |
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| Redeem. |
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| Money for a hostage. |
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