| Start a set |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Mar 2026 |
| Deliver the first ball of a point (tennis) (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
12 Feb 2026 |
| Attend to (customers) (5) |
Puzzler |
18 Jan 2026 |
| Start to rally? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
13 Jan 2026 |
| Dish out |
Commuter |
06 Jan 2026 |
| Start a tennis game |
Commuter |
13 Dec 2025 |
| Ace, e.g. |
New York Times |
12 Dec 2025 |
| Bring out dinner |
Newsday |
09 Nov 2025 |
| Be in the military |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2025 |
| Dish up |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Oct 2025 |
| Present food or drink to (5) |
Mirror Classic |
23 Sep 2025 |
| Bring out a meal |
Newsday |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Bring out a meal |
Newsday |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Start a tennis point, e.g. |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Aug 2025 |
| Minister to start game at Wimbledon? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 Aug 2025 |
| Start of a rally |
New York Times |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Wait on |
Newsday |
27 Jul 2025 |
| Wait tables |
Commuter |
23 Jul 2025 |
| Wait upon tennis delivery (5) |
|
|
| Start playing tennis |
Universal |
23 Jul 2025 |
| Start to rally, maybe |
New York Times |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Act as a waiter, say |
The Telegraph Mini |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Point starter |
|
|
| Wait tables |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jun 2025 |
| Dish up, ... the food |
|
|
| Do a waiter's work |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jun 2025 |
| Join the forces and work in the mess (5) |
|
|
| Start a pickleball volley |
Universal |
23 May 2025 |
| Be in the military |
Commuter |
22 May 2025 |
| Veer off to the south and wait (5) |
|
|
| Do wait at table |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
17 May 2025 |
| Start playing tennis to be of use |
|
|
| Distribute in function (5) |
|
|
| Be good enough to start the game (5) |
|
|
| First shot in tennis (5) |
|
|
| Spanish golfer, covering river, put the ball into play |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Apr 2025 |
| Dish up |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Apr 2025 |
| What is to do military duty? (5) |
|
|
| Initial court action is a reprimand (5) |
|
|
| Attend to (a customer) |
The Times Concise |
07 Mar 2025 |
| Benefit cut taking Republican to heart |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Mar 2025 |
| First stroke in a game of tennis |
|
|
| Do hit the first ball at Wimbledon? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Mar 2025 |
| Veers over to satisfy (5) |
|
|
| Wait at table (5) |
Puzzler |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Start a point in tennis |
Commuter |
17 Feb 2025 |
| Attend to the customers, do! (5) |
|
|
| Wait to be useful? (5) |
|
|
| Opening stroke in tennis (5) |
Puzzler |
07 Feb 2025 |
| Instigate proceedings at court? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
01 Feb 2025 |
| Initiate the deciding of a point in court (5) |
|
|
| Bring a meal to |
Newsday |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Start a tennis game |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Start a tennis match |
Newsday |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Begin a tennis match |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2025 |
| Wait on |
Universal |
03 Jan 2025 |
| Wait to start play (5) |
|
|
| What players often do in tennis? |
|
|
| Put the ball into play - or wait (5) |
|
|
| Attend to start of tennis match? |
|
|
| Wait on |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Dec 2024 |
| Wait to play first shot (5) |
|
|
| Try to play an ace (5) |
|
|
| Hit a tennis ball to begin play (5) |
|
|
| Start a match |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Nov 2024 |
| Help to (5) |
|
|
| Get the game going - or help to (5) |
|
|
| Start a tennis game with this |
|
|
| Wait on |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Oct 2024 |
| Freestyle verse? It's ace, maybe (5) |
|
|
| Attend to customers |
|
|
| Start a volley |
Commuter |
25 Oct 2024 |
| Start play? Will do! (5) |
|
|
| Wait at table (5) |
Puzzler |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Tennis game opener |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Opening shot in tennis |
|
|
| Work as a waiter: - at the tables |
|
|
| Dish up |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Wait for action on tennis court |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Tennis stroke which puts the ball into play (5) |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Sep 2024 |
| Dishup, ... dinner |
|
|
| Wait on |
Mirror Classic |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Wait on |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Sep 2024 |
| To hand food round will suffice (5) |
|
|
| Be useful and hit the ball first (5) |
|
|
| Be useful and set ball in play (5) |
|
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| Attend, support (5) |
|
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| Attend to customers |
|
|
| Wait on start of tennis game (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Wait on start of tennis game (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
27 Jul 2024 |
| Dish out meal in looser vest (5) |
|
|
| Be of use |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Jul 2024 |
| Wait to start a game perhaps (5) |
|
|
| Start a volleyball game |
LA Times Mini |
03 Jul 2024 |
| Do start tennis match? |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Dish up |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Engineer leaving sub gets shot |
|
|
| Start a set |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Jun 2024 |
| Carry out duties (5) |
|
|
| Dish up a meal (5) |
|
|
| Dish up new verse (5) |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Bring food to table |
|
|
| Work for |
Mirror Quick |
22 May 2024 |
| Wait to play the first shot |
Mirror Cryptic |
22 May 2024 |
| Verse about how to start a game of tennis (5) |
|
|
| Wait on |
Mirror Classic |
16 May 2024 |
| Wait on minister to deliver work for Deal |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
12 May 2024 |
| Dish up some coarser vegetables |
|
|
| Attend to customers |
|
|
| Dylan's "Gotta ___ Somebody" (5) |
|
|
| Pass as new verse (5) |
|
|
| Start a set |
Newsday |
20 Apr 2024 |
| Start a tennis set |
Commuter |
18 Apr 2024 |
| As a first shot, it will do (5) |
|
|
| Pass the ball? (5) |
|
|
| Wait to do military duty (5) |
|
|
| Start a tennis point |
New York Times |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Not the way to be a master at tennis? (5) |
|
|
| Wait to start game on court (5) |
|
|
| Attend to (customers) |
Puzzler Backwords |
22 Feb 2024 |
| Do duty (5) |
|
|
| Begin a tennis match |
Newsday |
18 Feb 2024 |
| Begin a point in volleyball |
|
|
| Revised verse with verbal abuse (5) |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Put into play, on a court |
|
|
| Wait to start a tennis game (5) |
|
|
| Tennis game's opening |
TV |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
USA Today |
14 Jan 2024 |
| First point of a tennis rally |
|
|
| Be of use and start action in court (5) |
|
|
| ___ a purpose |
Universal |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Wait to be in the army perhaps |
|
|
| Begin a tennis game |
Commuter |
23 Dec 2023 |
| Be helpful |
Newsday |
16 Dec 2023 |
| Do a waiter's job |
Commuter |
09 Dec 2023 |
| Start a tennis point (5) |
|
|
| Opening move in a tennis match |
|
|
| Work for |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Nov 2023 |
| Deliver a subpoena |
|
|
| Start a tennis match, say |
|
|
| Opening tennis stroke |
The Times Concise |
24 Oct 2023 |
| Soft ___ ice cream |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2023 |
| Tennis shot that starts off each point |
|
|
| Start a volley |
Premier Sunday |
08 Oct 2023 |
| Word that means 'look good' in ball culture |
USA Today |
28 Sep 2023 |
| Wait on |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Sep 2023 |
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Dish out |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Jun 2023 |
| Start of a volleyball rally |
USA Today |
02 Jun 2023 |
| Hand out food and drink, say |
|
|
| Bring out dinner |
Newsday |
07 May 2023 |
| Start a badminton game |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Be of use |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Mar 2023 |
| Bring out dinner |
Newsday |
27 Mar 2023 |
| Start a tennis match |
Newsday |
14 Mar 2023 |
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Starting action on a court |
New York Times |
20 Dec 2022 |
| Bring out, as dinner |
Newsday |
20 Dec 2022 |
| Start a set |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Nov 2022 |
| Be of use |
LA Times Daily |
12 Nov 2022 |
| Court action |
|
|
| A bad one is your fault |
New York Times |
05 Nov 2022 |
| Act the waiter |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Sep 2022 |
| Lifting topless porcelain dish up |
The Times Cryptic |
06 Sep 2022 |
| Dish up, as a dish |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| 'They also ... who only stand and wait' (Milton) |
|
|
| Be adequate |
Newsday |
21 Apr 2022 |
| Act the waiter |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Apr 2022 |
| Start a set |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Feb 2022 |
| Perform duties for |
The Times Concise |
25 Dec 2021 |
| Help! Verse is jumbled |
|
|
| Spend (time in prison) |
The Guardian Quick |
17 Nov 2021 |
| Opening tennis shot |
USA Today |
16 Nov 2021 |
| Tennis shot |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Sep 2021 |
| Put the tennis ball in play |
|
|
| ''They also ... who only stand and wait'' (Milton) |
|
|
| Do start tennis match? |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 May 2021 |
| Dish up |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 May 2021 |
| Start a set |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Golfer carrying putter finally gets help |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Mar 2021 |
| Start a volleyball game |
USA Today |
09 Mar 2021 |
| Act the waiter |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Feb 2021 |
| Bring a meal to |
Newsday |
09 Feb 2021 |
| Work for; suffice |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Feb 2021 |
| ''They also ... who only stand and wait'' (Milton) |
|
|
| Opening tennis shot |
USA Today |
01 Feb 2021 |
| Put the tennis ball in play |
|
|
| Work for |
Newsday |
10 Dec 2020 |
| Suffice |
LA Times Daily |
06 Dec 2020 |
| Golfer, carrying river, put the ball into play |
|
|
| Begin a volleyball game |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2020 |
| Place a meal on the table |
Newsday |
06 Oct 2020 |
| Start of a tennis rally |
New York Times |
14 Sep 2020 |
| Dish up, as a dish |
|
|
| Dish up, as a dish |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2020 |
| Deliver, at Wimbledon |
|
|
| Open opener? |
|
|
| Start of a tennis point |
|
|
| Assist |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Apr 2020 |
| Volley starter |
Premier Sunday |
15 Mar 2020 |
| Start a set |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Mar 2020 |
| Start a tennis game |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2020 |
| Ace maybe to be employed in Forces |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2019 |
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Tennis match starter? |
|
|
| Work to start the game |
|
|
| Benefit cut shifting Republican to centre |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Aug 2019 |
| Launch, as a shuttlecock |
|
|
| Offer up nonsense verse |
|
|
| Start a court contest |
|
|
| Start a court contest |
LA Times Daily |
21 Jun 2019 |
| Wait as substitute about to go out |
|
|
| Bring to the table |
Universal |
13 Jun 2019 |
| Offer up nonsense verse |
|
|
| Minister to split moving right to centre |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Mar 2019 |
| Wait on |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Feb 2019 |
| Wait to look over recreational vehicle |
|
|
| Wait and leave course, needing to lose weight |
|
|
| Bring to the table |
|
|
| Start a court contest |
|
|
| Try for an ace, maybe |
Universal |
19 Dec 2018 |
| Hand out food and drink |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Try to break love |
Universal |
29 Sep 2018 |
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Hand out food, drink |
|
|
| Put into play |
USA Today |
09 Aug 2018 |
| Start a tennis game |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Jul 2018 |
| What those waiting do to start play? |
|
|
| Perform duties for |
The Times Concise |
09 May 2018 |
| Start a match |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Apr 2018 |
| Be adequate |
Newsday |
01 Apr 2018 |
| Be a waiter |
Universal |
25 Mar 2018 |
| Wait on |
New York Times |
23 Mar 2018 |
| Be of use |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Mar 2018 |
| Do some waiting |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Mar 2018 |
| Wait for action on tennis court |
|
|
| Tennis match start |
Universal |
04 Mar 2018 |
| Bring out dinner |
Newsday |
14 Feb 2018 |
| Start a tennis match |
Family Time |
11 Feb 2018 |
| Put dinner on the table |
Newsday |
17 Jan 2018 |
| Put into play |
|
|
| Do a tour of duty in the Persian Gulf, e.g. |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Try to break love |
|
|
| Try for an ace, maybe |
|
|
| Put the ball in play on court |
|
|
| Wait to begin a tennis game |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Dec 2017 |
| Wait at table |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Dec 2017 |
| Do military duty |
New York Times |
12 Dec 2017 |
| Do a hitch |
USA Today |
24 Nov 2017 |
| Wait on answer |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Nov 2017 |
| Start a tennis match |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2017 |
| Start a set |
Universal |
27 Oct 2017 |
| Dish out food |
Newsday |
24 Oct 2017 |
| Start of a tennis point |
|
|
| Start of a tennis point |
LA Times Daily |
09 Oct 2017 |
| Opening tennis shot |
The Times Concise |
18 Sep 2017 |
| Assist old golfer carrying putter at the finish |
|
|
| Tennis action where one aims for an ace |
|
|
| Minister to commence action in court before judges? |
|
|
| Be of use and dish up |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Jul 2017 |
| Fill the bill |
Newsday |
02 Jul 2017 |
| Bring to the table |
|
|
| Start a match |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Mar 2017 |
| Be of use |
Newsday |
19 Mar 2017 |
| Dish up |
The Times Concise |
21 Feb 2017 |
| Suffice |
Newsday |
10 Feb 2017 |
| Start a volleyball game |
|
|
| Do military duty |
|
|
| Start of a tennis point |
|
|
| Start a set |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Do a hitch |
|
|
| Bring to the table |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Attend to recreational vehicle parked in spot |
|
|
| Tennis match starter |
Universal |
24 Nov 2016 |
| Start of a tennis match |
USA Today |
17 Nov 2016 |
| Start a rally, in tennis |
USA Today |
26 Oct 2016 |
| Work for |
LA Times Daily |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Do some waiting? |
Universal |
20 Jul 2016 |
| Help carry out present |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
Newsday |
07 Jun 2016 |
| Match starter |
Universal |
01 Apr 2016 |
| Work for |
|
|
| Do some waiting? |
|
|
| Tennis match starter |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
Universal |
12 Dec 2015 |
| 25-Across starter |
LA Times Daily |
24 Oct 2015 |
| Court action over verse? |
|
|
| Attend |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Aug 2015 |
| Do the duty |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Mar 2015 |
| Dish up |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Feb 2015 |
| 25-Across starter |
|
|
| Dylan "Gotta ___ Somebody" |
|
|
| Return's precursor? |
|
|
| Use English, perhaps |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
|
|
| Start a match |
|
|
| Wait to start the game |
|
|
| Be of use - bring holy books into Bishop's place |
|
|
| Start a volleyball game |
|
|
| Launch a tennis ball |
|
|
| Start a volley |
|
|
| Dish up |
|
|
| Start court proceedings? |
|
|
| Do a hitch in the military |
|
|
| Start playing tennis |
|
|
| Bring out dinner |
|
|
| Join the Peace Corps, say |
|
|
| Dish out |
|
|
| Do the job |
|
|
| Bring dinner to the table |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Badminton opener |
|
|
| Start of a tennis match |
|
|
| Make oneself useful |
|
|
| Dish (up) |
|
|
| Badminton opener |
|
|
| Volunteer for the Peace Corps, say |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Go for an ace, maybe |
|
|
| Start a volley |
|
|
| Go for an ace, maybe |
|
|
| Set starter |
|
|
| Start a rally |
|
|
| Match initiator |
|
|
| Dish out |
|
|
| Begin a tennis match |
|
|
| Act (as) |
|
|
| Start a rally |
|
|
| Start a rally |
|
|
| Bring to the supper table |
|
|
| Do some waiting |
|
|
| Contribute to the cause |
|
|
| Dish out food |
|
|
| Dish up |
|
|
| Start a set |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
|
|
| Tennis opening |
|
|
| Start the tennis game |
|
|
| Match starter |
|
|
| Dish up |
|
|
| Put out, as dinner |
|
|
| Match starter |
|
|
| Dish up |
|
|
| Tennis opening |
|
|
| Do some waiting |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Dish up |
|
|
| Start a set |
|
|
| Accommodate |
|
|
| Start a set |
|
|
| Bring out a meal |
|
|
| Start court proceedings? |
|
|
| Game opener, sometimes |
|
|
| Try for an ace |
|
|
| Do duty as a soldier |
|
|
| Do some waiting |
|
|
| Game opener, sometimes |
|
|
| Tennis opener |
|
|
| Rally starter |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Dish out |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Fill the bill |
|
|
| Dish out |
|
|
| Bring to the table |
|
|
| Start a volleyball game |
|
|
| Be a waitron |
|
|
| Start a volleyball point |
|
|
| Dish up or dish out, e.g. |
|
|
| Put in time |
|
|
| Bring to the dinner table |
|
|
| Start a tennis match |
|
|
| Dish out |
|
|
| Start the match |
|
|
| Start a game, in a way |
|
|
| Ace, maybe |
|
|
| Start the point |
|
|
| Start a point, in tennis |
|
|
| Start the tennis match |
|
|
| Tennis starter |
|
|
| Assist |
|
|
| Serena specialty |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Hope for an ace |
|
|
| Do one's duty |
|
|
| Be useful |
|
|
| Start a point |
|
|
| Court action |
|
|
| Do a hitch |
|
|
| Start the match |
|
|
| Be of use |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
|
|
| Start a point |
|
|
| Be useful |
|
|
| Deliver, as a summons |
|
|
| Put the ball in play |
|
|
| Be of assistance to |
|
|
| Emulate a waiter |
|
|
| Fill the bill |
|
|
| Be of use |
|
|
| Suffice |
|
|
| Start a point |
|
|
| Try for an ace |
|
|
| More of the quip |
|
|
| Work for |
|
|
| Start a match |
|
|
| Open a tennis match |
|
|
| How to get an ace |
|
|
| Start a volleyball point |
|
|
| Deliver a la Sampras |
|
|
| Sampras asset |
|
|
| Do time |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
|
|
| Try for an ace, perhaps |
|
|
| Be of use |
|
|
| Supply the food |
|
|
| Wait on |
|
|
| Ace vehicle |
|
|
| Court opening |
|
|
| Launch a tennis ball |
|
|
| Wait tables |
|
|
| Fill the bill |
|
|
| Start a game, maybe |
|
|
| Graf's delivery |
|
|
| Start a match |
|
|
| Begin a tennis game |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
|
|
| Emulate Chang |
|
|
| Tennis term |
|
|
| Accommodate |
|
|
| Do one's duty |
|
|
| Put the ball in play |
|
|
| Tennis starter |
|
|
| Put into play |
|
|
| An ace is one |
|
|
| Cater |
|
|
| Begin tennis |
|
|
| Best part of Ivanisevic's game |
|
|
| Forte of 77 Across |
|
|
| Supply |
|
|
| Coward's "In Which We ___" |
|
|
| "In Which We ___," 1942 film |
|
|
| Cater to |
|
|
| Start a game with Graf |
|
|
| Boris Becker "boomer" |
|
|
| Put a tennis ball in play |
|
|
| Dish up |
|
|
| Tennis term |
|
|
| Start a tennis game |
|
|
| Open a tennis match |
|
|
| A Becker boomer |
|
|
| Boris Becker boomer |
|
|
| Minister |
|
|
| Try for aces |
|
|
| Set starter |
|
|
| Answer a purpose |
|
|
| Tennis play |
|
|
| Roscoe Tanner's cannonball |
|
|
| Wait on tables |
|
|
| Borg's initial blast |
|
|
| Start a set |
|
|
| Roscoe Tanner's strong point |
|
|
| Match opener |
|
|
| One of Evert's fortes |
|
|
| Suffice |
|
|
| Do time |
|
|
| Newcombe's forte |
|
|
| Come in handy |
|
|
| One of a tennis pair |
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| Tennis opener |
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| Start tennis or dinner |
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| Put on the soup |
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| Put in play |
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| Tennis start |
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| Tennis shot |
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| Tennis stroke |
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| "They also ___ . . . " |
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| Answer a purpose. |
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| Start play, in certain games. |
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| Hoad's specialty. |
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| Be in office. |
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| Do duty for a term. |
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| Fill the purpose. |
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| Olmedo's forte. |
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| Try for an ace, in tennis. |
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| Be adequate. |
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| Trabert's forte. |
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| Send toward Venus, say |
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| Wait on |
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| Further. |
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| Start a tennis game. |
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| Tennis play. |
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| Tennis action. |
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| Be of use. |
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| Hold public office. |
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| Tennis shot. |
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| Meaning of "dien" in "Ich dien." |
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| Tennis term. |
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| Waiters also do this. |
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| Tennis stroke. |
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