| Sink the cue ball |
Commuter |
13 Aug 2025 |
| Sink the cue ball |
Commuter |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Surface wound |
The Times Concise |
20 Jun 2025 |
| Minor injury, so no handicap (7) |
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| Withdraw from top class golf tournament? (7) |
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| "Earn a living only with difficulty" does hurt a little (7) |
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| Small problem keeping Republican in nick |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
25 May 2025 |
| No handicap when it comes to treating itch (7) |
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| Small cut or mark (7) |
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| Prison sentence one may make go farther (7) |
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| Injure with a 54-Down |
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| Beginning to irritate (7) |
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| Score with a sharp object |
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| No handicap needed to alleviate the itch (7) |
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| Where your hand goes and what is it doing when puzzling over this clue - but it is all good (2,2,7) |
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| From the very beginning, are irritating (7) |
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| Ted Nugent's "Cat ___ Fever" |
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| Mark typical of a proficient golfer? (7) |
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| Hurt when you refuse to play (7) |
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| Small cut or scrape |
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| Withdraw with a minor injury (7) |
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| Minor abrasion |
LA Times Daily |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Slight cut? Rest assured that cuts hurt at first (7) |
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| Withdraw from race with minor injury (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
22 Mar 2025 |
| Withdraw from competition due to minor injury (7) |
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| Itch remedy, and a synonym for "small imperfection" |
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| Take a sportsman out of the team - one without a handicap (7,6) |
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| Withdraw casual cash (7) |
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| Mark's a player with no handicap (7) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
29 Jan 2025 |
| Withdraw with a slight injury |
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| Nick caught rodent in school |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Jan 2025 |
| What the competent come up to score (7) |
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| Casual scoundrel about to break into school |
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| Nick what capable people are up to |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Small cut |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Mark caught rodent in school |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Scrape with your fingernail (7) |
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| Feel the need to itch: - your back |
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| Mark is a good golfer (7) |
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| Minor abrasion: just a - |
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| Withdraw from competition through small surface wound (7) |
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| Rough score (7) |
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| Small cut |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Dec 2024 |
| Slight wound is no handicap |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Dec 2024 |
| Mark with fingernail (7) |
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| It is no handicap to use one's nails (7) |
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| Write hurriedly for ready money (7) |
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| Itch: - your skin |
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| Charts about to be drawn up for itch treatment (7) |
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| A minor injury that's no handicap (7) |
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| Withdraw from contest with a slight wound |
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| Chafe from the very beginning (7) |
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| Drop out from the competition with a slight injury (7) |
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| Etch from the beginning? (7) |
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| Withdraw racehorse with a claw mark (7) |
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| Sink the cue ball |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Oct 2024 |
| Scrape with a fingernail, ... an itch |
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| Fronts of two cars in dangerous crash might result in this? (7) |
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| Take out of race due to small injury (7) |
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| Rub itchy spot (7) |
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| Withdraw (from a competition) (7) |
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| Remove sign of damage |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Sep 2024 |
| From the very beginning, is good at golf (7) |
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| Only a slight wound may make one withdraw from race (7) |
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| Son runs into trap getting minor wound |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Sep 2024 |
| Outstanding drivers who aren't handicapped (7,7) |
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| Injure using the fingernails (7) |
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| Irritate from the beginning (7) |
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| Withdraw from contest because of irritation? (7) |
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| Long, narrow superficia wound on the skin (7) |
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| Impromptu score (7) |
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| Withdraw from race with claw wound (7) |
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| Not handicapped by slight injury (7) |
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| What the unhandicapped beginner does (6,4,7) |
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| A blemish to eliminate (7) |
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| Satisfy an itch to withdraw from a contest (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
16 May 2024 |
| Withdraw from the game without handicap (7) |
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| Damage to a 45 or LP (or cure for an itch) (7) |
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| Mark's quite rough-and-ready |
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| An abrasion is no handicap (7) |
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| Unhandicapped player runs to intercept second dismissal |
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| It is in irritating response, to withdraw one's entry (7) |
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| Rub an itch (7) |
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| In golf, what term describes a player with a handicap of zero strokes? (7) |
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| Mark square one |
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| Retire from the contest - not up to it? |
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| Retire from the contest - not up to it? (7) |
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| Make your mark as a non-runner? |
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| Beginning to make your mark (7) |
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| Graze (7) |
Puzzler |
23 Mar 2024 |
| Beginning as only a slight injury |
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| Itch remedy, and a synonym for "small imperfection" |
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| Relieve itch |
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| Withdraw due to a slight injury (7) |
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| Start to solve problem getting right score |
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| Withdraw from contest with slight injury (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 Feb 2024 |
| Lee ___ Perry, Jamaican artist (7) |
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| Mark with fingernails (7) |
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| Zero handicap (golf) (7) |
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| One may itch to do it |
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| One may itch to do it (7) |
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| Graze and withdraw from competition (7) |
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| Relieve an itch (7) |
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| Withdraw from race (7) |
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| To satisfy an itch when it comes to handicap race (7) |
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| What criminal might do with key before door's opening - might that prove lucky? (7,4) |
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| What criminal might do with key before door's opening - might that prove lucky? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
08 Jan 2024 |
| Mark's a competitor without a handicap (7) |
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| Mark King with a temperature in school |
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| Get rid of defective carts dumped by church (7) |
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| Good golfer might achieve this score |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Nov 2023 |
| Chicken ___ (difficult-to-read handwriting) |
USA Today |
13 Oct 2023 |
| Slight hurt primarily caused by telltale in school |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Sep 2023 |
| Nick caught vermin in school |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Sep 2023 |
| Scrape |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Starting point |
Newsday |
15 Jul 2023 |
| Like a golfer who usually shoots around par |
LA Times Daily |
27 May 2023 |
| Mark or cut with a point |
The Times Concise |
06 May 2023 |
| Withdraw versatile material many new things are made from! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Apr 2023 |
| Salmon's head right in net — pull out |
The Guardian Cryptic |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Nick may be up to this if good enough |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Oct 2022 |
| Withdraw; graze |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Sep 2022 |
| Withdraw cash |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Jun 2022 |
| Score, mark |
The Times Concise |
12 Mar 2022 |
| Nothing on course to relieve irritation |
The Guardian Cryptic |
20 Jan 2022 |
| Nothing on course to relieve irritation |
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| Hit the cue ball into a pocket |
Universal |
07 Jan 2022 |
| Start from ___ |
USA Today |
13 Sep 2021 |
| Square one |
Newsday |
13 Jun 2021 |
| Score that's zero for golfer |
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| Improvised score |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Feb 2021 |
| The beginning, in an idiom |
New York Times |
20 Dec 2020 |
| Crash badly, sustaining extremely traumatic wound |
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| Wound like a cat would |
The Washington Post Sunday |
08 Nov 2020 |
| Withdraw (from an event) |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Nov 2020 |
| Claw mark? |
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| Capsized sailor, caught in school, improvised |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Oct 2020 |
| School acquiring oddly neglected Scarlatti score |
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| One might start from here to find about getting embedded in the misleading charts |
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| Scrape |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Sep 2020 |
| Cut without any handicap |
|
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| Money, in slang |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Jul 2020 |
| Minor injury no handicap |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Jun 2020 |
| Small problem with resistance leader in nick |
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| Cash -- shilling -- Scrooge's clerk hasn't got it |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Apr 2020 |
| Mark caught rodent in school |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Apr 2020 |
| Small cut |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Apr 2020 |
| Mark's secure attic she entered occasionally |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Mar 2020 |
| Minor injury certainly no handicap |
|
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| Withdraw shilling ('Bob') from Dickens at Xmas – it's gone |
|
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| Satisfy an itch |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Jan 2020 |
| Body shop concern |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Dec 2019 |
| Score with a point |
The Times Concise |
16 Dec 2019 |
| Top of singles 100 chart, composed score |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
26 Oct 2019 |
| Slight wound as son runs into trap |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Sep 2019 |
| Mark good enough, if up to this? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Aug 2019 |
| Mark gets caught, snitch in school |
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| Cancel score |
|
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| '15 shillings? Leave it out!' – Dickensian Bob |
|
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| Nick caught rodent in school |
|
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| Nick prepared charts about launch of cosmetics |
|
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| Withdraw from competition, having a slight injury |
|
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| Write hurriedly to cancel test money |
|
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| Special cart distributed church's cash |
|
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| Cut of endless fish taken home by fishermen around end of pier |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 Jan 2019 |
| Fail to appear for an informal event |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Oct 2018 |
| Nick hastily got together cash, having no handicap |
|
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| School presses rogue clubs to withdraw from competition |
|
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| Small cut or graze |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Apr 2018 |
| Slight wound is no handicap |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Apr 2018 |
| Get out of money |
|
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| Withdraw score |
|
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| Superficial wound |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Oct 2017 |
| Satisfy an itch |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Aug 2017 |
| Slight injury is no handicap |
|
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| Score in second haul of fish about right |
|
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| Graze |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Apr 2017 |
| Withdraw from competition |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Mar 2017 |
| From ___ (from the beginning) |
|
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| Cancel score |
|
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| Pull out claw |
|
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| Withdraw claw |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Jan 2017 |
| Abraded skin areas |
Irish Times Simplex |
05 Jan 2017 |
| Cancel; score |
The Times Concise |
22 Dec 2016 |
| Cancel score |
|
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| Minor injury making one withdraw from event |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Dec 2016 |
| Golf handicap of zero |
New York Times |
30 Sep 2016 |
| CD flaw |
Newsday |
22 Sep 2016 |
| Remove handicap for excellent golfer |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 May 2016 |
| Withdraw with minor injury |
|
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| Find something irritating and withdraw from event |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jan 2016 |
| Golf handicap of zero |
|
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| Minor injury is no handicap |
|
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| Some wealth |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Dec 2015 |
| Withdraw with slight injury |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Dec 2015 |
| Animal crackers primarily available in school to make money |
|
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| It's like a top golfer to withdraw from competition |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Sep 2015 |
| Score with second hook, bagging runs |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Sep 2015 |
| Remove one of the golfers |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 May 2015 |
| Leader of High Court bends over to relieve irritation |
|
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| Slight wound from constant rogue in school |
|
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| Some wealth |
|
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| Mark is to withdraw from contest |
|
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| A slight injury causing one to withdraw |
|
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| Money, in slang |
|
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| Square one, so to speak |
|
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| Withdraw from contest with slight injury |
|
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| Square one |
|
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| Cancel |
|
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| Starting place |
|
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| Delete, so to speak |
|
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| Square one |
|
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| Square one |
|
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| Sniff partner |
|
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| Sink the cue ball |
|
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| Deal with poison ivy, in a way |
|
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| Deal with poison ivy, in a way |
|
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| Use one's nails |
|
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| Kentucky Derby cancellation |
|
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| No-go at the track |
|
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| Pool error |
|
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| Zip |
|
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| Slangy money |
|
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| Pool error |
|
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| Bucks |
|
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| Starting point |
|
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| Withdraw from competition |
|
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| Pool problem |
|
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| Old ___ (Satan) |
|
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| The Devil, with "Old" |
|
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| Pool misplay |
|
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| Horse withdrawn from a race |
|
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| Tabletop woe |
|
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| Hen marking |
|
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| Where to start from |
|
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| Moolah |
|
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| Start from ___ |
|
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| Cross (out). |
|
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| Racetrack term. |
|
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| Get feline revenge |
|
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| Withdraw from a contest. |
|
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| Withdraw, as a horse, from a race. |
|
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| Money: Slang. |
|
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| Billiard miscue. |
|
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| Old ___, the Devil. |
|
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| Do a DJ's job |
|
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| Starting line. |
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