| Unpaid servant (5) |
Mirror Quick |
25 Apr 2026 |
| Addict left during rescue (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
25 Apr 2026 |
| Addict left during rescue (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
18 Sep 2025 |
| Servant (5) |
Mirror Quick |
18 Sep 2025 |
| Work very hard, invest, keeping pounds (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Sep 2025 |
| Work very hard, invest, keeping pounds (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Aug 2025 |
| East European first to work hard (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
12 Jul 2025 |
| ____ away, work very hard |
The Telegraph Plusword |
08 Jul 2025 |
| Person held as property (5) |
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| Work very hard to salvage about fifty (5) |
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| Addict left during rescue |
Mirror Cryptic |
22 May 2025 |
| Unpaid servant |
Mirror Quick |
22 May 2025 |
| Work hard to put by fifty in it (5) |
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| "12 Years a ___" (2013 Best Picture winner) |
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| 12 Years a _, 2013 film (5) |
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| Addict leaves hurriedly, without key (5) |
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| Person forced to work for another (5) |
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| A bondsman has to work so hard (5) |
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| Chiwetel Ejiofor movie, 12 Years a ___-- (5) |
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| Spartacus, notably |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
20 Mar 2025 |
| Mechanism controlled by another, except for about a pound (5) |
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| ____ to the Rhythm, Grace Jones song |
The Telegraph Mini |
22 Feb 2025 |
| Left inside, except addict (5) |
|
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| Work very hard to rescue a number trapped in (5) |
|
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| I'm a ...4 U (Britney Spears hit) (5) |
|
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| Forced labourer |
The Telegraph Mini |
28 Jan 2025 |
| Not a willing worker (5) |
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| See 7 Across |
Mirror Quiz |
28 Dec 2024 |
| Many a character in "Roots" |
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| Work very hard, invest, keeping pounds |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Nov 2024 |
| Skivvy |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Nov 2024 |
| Work excessively hard to put by about a pound (5) |
|
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| Labour (over) |
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| Hard worker left locked up by husband (5) |
|
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| Veal's cooked by serf (5) |
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| (and 5 Across) Exploitation of people or valuables somehow (5,6) |
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| Exploitation of people or valuables somehow (5,6) |
|
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| Enforced labourer (5) |
|
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| Keep about fifty to work as drudges (5) |
|
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| Addict left during rescue |
Mirror Cryptic |
29 Aug 2024 |
| Servant |
Mirror Quick |
29 Aug 2024 |
| Northwest Territories body of water, Great ___ Lake |
|
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| Skivvy |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Work very hard, invest, keeping pounds |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Aug 2024 |
| "12 Years a " |
|
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| It's not the master who will put by about a pound (5) |
|
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| He's bound to do a hard day's work |
|
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| Work hard, save about 50 (5) |
|
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| Work very hard (colloq) (5) |
|
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| Captive worker |
|
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| Work extremely hard to put by about a pound (5) |
|
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| Keep student inside as a servant (5) |
|
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| Except having left serf |
Mirror Cryptic |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Unpaid worker |
Mirror Quick |
18 Apr 2024 |
| One must work very hard, being a vassal (5) |
|
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| Someone who is owned |
|
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| Unpaid toiler |
|
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| Work extremely hard to put by about fifty (5) |
|
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| 12 Years a ___ (Nyong'o movie) |
|
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| Movie, 12 Years A... |
|
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| "12 Years a __" |
|
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| Memoir of American abolitionist Solomon Northup from 1853 (6,5,1,5) |
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| Drudge |
|
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| Work excessively hard |
The Times Concise |
05 Dec 2022 |
| Work too hard |
Newsday |
20 Nov 2022 |
| Heston Oscar role |
Newsday |
26 Jun 2021 |
| '12 Years a ___' |
New York Times |
05 Jan 2021 |
| Bondsman, thrall |
The Times Concise |
04 Aug 2020 |
| Work like a dog |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Mar 2020 |
| "12 Years a ___," 2013 biographical period drama film adapted from the 1853 memoir of the same name, whose music was composed by Hans Zimmer |
|
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| Oscar-winning hit "12 Years a ___" |
|
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| Unpaid worker |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Feb 2019 |
| Oscar-winning film, "12 Years a ___" |
|
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| Work like a dog |
USA Today |
18 Feb 2019 |
| Work like a dog |
|
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| Person 'owned' by another |
|
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| Kunta Kinte, for one |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Jul 2018 |
| Many a worker in ancient Rome |
New York Times |
22 Jul 2018 |
| Human chattel |
|
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| Spartacus, for one |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jun 2018 |
| Really work |
Premier Sunday |
03 Jun 2018 |
| Work like a dog |
New York Times |
01 May 2018 |
| "12 Years a ___" |
Universal |
19 Feb 2018 |
| "12 Years a ___," an Oscar-winning film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor |
|
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| Work really hard |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jan 2018 |
| Work really hard |
|
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| Galley oarsman, e.g |
USA Today |
06 Jan 2018 |
| Work really hard |
|
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| Work like a dog |
|
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| Many a worker in ancient Rome |
|
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| Spartacus, for one |
|
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| Kunta Kinte, for one |
|
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| Galley oarsman, e.g. |
|
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| "12 Years a ___" |
|
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| "___ to the Grind" |
Universal |
16 Dec 2017 |
| Work excessively hard |
The Times Concise |
07 Dec 2017 |
| Ben-Hur, for one |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Oct 2017 |
| Bondservant |
Universal |
05 Oct 2017 |
| Really toil |
Premier Sunday |
24 Sep 2017 |
| Spartacus, e.g |
Thomas Joseph |
05 May 2017 |
| Spartacus, for one |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Mar 2017 |
| Toil away |
USA Today |
24 Feb 2017 |
| Bondservant |
|
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| Toil away |
|
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| "___ to the Grind" |
|
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| Underground Railroad user |
Universal |
14 Dec 2016 |
| One in bondage |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Nov 2016 |
| Aida or Androcles |
USA Today |
19 Nov 2016 |
| Toil away |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Oct 2016 |
| Work very hard to put money aside when about fifty |
|
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| Frederick Douglass was one |
Universal |
22 Aug 2016 |
| One emancipated by emancipation |
New York Times |
25 Jul 2016 |
| Ascending in medieval society, one worked hard |
|
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| Frederic Douglass was one |
Universal |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Toil away |
Universal |
01 Jul 2016 |
| Toil (away) |
LA Times Daily |
22 May 2016 |
| Work day and night |
USA Today |
18 Mar 2016 |
| Serf |
|
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| Work too hard |
Newsday |
28 Feb 2016 |
| Put money aside to cover student work |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Jan 2016 |
| Toil away |
|
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| Underground Railroad user |
|
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| One emancipated by emancipation |
|
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| Frederic Douglass was one |
|
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| Frederick Douglass was one |
|
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| Toil (away) |
|
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| Work very hard |
Newsday |
19 Oct 2015 |
| Emancipation Proclamation subject |
USA Today |
14 Sep 2015 |
| Caliban in 'The Tempest,' e.g |
New York Times |
30 Aug 2015 |
| Thirteenth Amendment beneficiary |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jul 2015 |
| Work hard |
LA Times Daily |
16 Jul 2015 |
| Toil (away) |
New York Times |
07 Apr 2015 |
| Work one's fingers to the bone |
USA Today |
24 Feb 2015 |
| Emancipation Proclamation subject |
LA Times Daily |
10 Feb 2015 |
| Person owned by another |
|
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| Bond servant |
USA Today |
14 Jan 2015 |
| Thirteenth Amendment beneficiary |
|
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| Emancipation Proclamation subject |
|
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| Work hard |
|
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| Work very hard |
|
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| Caliban in "The Tempest," e.g. |
|
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| Toil (away) |
|
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| Bond servant |
|
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| Emancipation Proclamation subject |
|
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| Work one's fingers to the bone |
|
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| Toil |
|
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| Verdi's Aida, e.g. |
|
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| Nat Turner or Dred Scott |
|
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| Amistad passenger |
|
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| Spartacus, at one time |
|
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| Work one's fingers to the bone |
|
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| "12 Years a ___" |
|
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| Bondservant |
|
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| Underground Railroad "passenger" |
|
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| Dred Scott, once |
|
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| Skid Row "___ to the Grind" |
|
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| Ben-Hur, for a while |
|
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| Underground Railroad "passenger" |
|
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| Drudge |
|
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| Underground Railroad traveler |
|
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| Spartacus, for one |
|
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| Underground Railroad traveler |
|
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| Plug away |
|
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| "Amistad" passenger |
|
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| ___ driver |
|
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| Thirteenth Amendment beneficiary |
|
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| Toil (away) |
|
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| Work too hard |
|
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| Toil |
|
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| Work hard |
|
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| Put in long hours |
|
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| Galley drudge |
|
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| Work your fingers to the bone |
|
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| Dred Scott, e.g. |
|
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| Work like a dog |
|
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| Ben-Hur, for a time |
|
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| Britney's "I'm a ___ 4 U" |
|
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| Sweat blood |
|
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| Bond servant |
|
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| Work with scant appreciation |
|
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| Verdi's Aida, e.g. |
|
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| Underground Railroad "passenger" |
|
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| Ben-Hur, for a time |
|
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| Verdi's Aida, e.g. |
|
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| Toil away |
|
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| Ben-Hur, for a time |
|
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| Slog |
|
|
| Freedman, once |
|
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| Harriet Tubman "passenger" |
|
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| Toil away |
|
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| Toil too hard |
|
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| Spartacus, for one |
|
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| Harriet Tubman "passenger" |
|
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| "Amistad" extra |
|
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| Work like a dog |
|
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| Bust one's hump |
|
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| Ben-Hur, for one |
|
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| Amistad passenger |
|
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| Emancipation Proclamation subject |
|
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| Work hard |
|
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| "Amistad" extra |
|
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| Work really hard |
|
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| Amistad passenger |
|
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| Toil |
|
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| Exploited worker |
|
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| Joseph, while in Egypt |
|
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| Aida, e.g. |
|
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| Labor feverishly |
|
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| Spartacus, e.g. |
|
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| Drudge |
|
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| Underground Railroad user |
|
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| Nat Turner, e.g. |
|
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| Old plantation worker |
|
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| Old plantation worker |
|
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| Nat Turner, e.g. |
|
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| Kind of wages |
|
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| Toil |
|
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| Esne |
|
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| "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half ___ and half free": Abraham Lincoln |
|
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| Machine triggered by another |
|
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| Work your fingers to the bone |
|
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| Androcles, e.g. |
|
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| Dred Scott, e.g. |
|
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| Androcles, for one |
|
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| Toil |
|
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| Toil |
|
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| Canada's Great __ Lake |
|
|
| Spartacus, e.g. |
|
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| 'Gladiator' extra |
|
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| Bond servant |
|
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| Work too hard |
|
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| Work very hard |
|
|
| Aïda, for instance |
|
|
| Aesop or Epictetus |
|
|
| Master's minion |
|
|
| Nat Turner was one |
|
|
| Bond servant |
|
|
| Androcles, e.g. |
|
|
| Computer device controlled by another |
|
|
| Aida was one |
|
|
| Great __ Lake |
|
|
| Unpaid laborer |
|
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| Really toil |
|
|
| Egregious trade in American history |
|
|
| Serf, essentially |
|
|
| Canada's Great __ Lake |
|
|
| Work like a horse |
|
|
| Spartacus, notably |
|
|
| Amistad passenger |
|
|
| "Amistad" character |
|
|
| Drudge |
|
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| Workhorse |
|
|
| Work, work, work |
|
|
| Computer peripheral |
|
|
| Work day and night |
|
|
| Work like a dog |
|
|
| Labor feverishly |
|
|
| Verdi's Aïda, e.g. |
|
|
| Spartacus, e.g. |
|
|
| Work with scant appreciation |
|
|
| Drudge |
|
|
| Ben-Hur, for one |
|
|
| Toil |
|
|
| Work one's fingers to the bone |
|
|
| Dred Scott or Nat Turner |
|
|
| Work hard |
|
|
| Wage - |
|
|
| Androcles e.g. |
|
|
| Toiler |
|
|
| Vassal |
|
|
| Kind of driver |
|
|
| Nat Turner was one |
|
|
| See 26 Across |
|
|
| Work, work, work |
|
|
| Aïda, for one |
|
|
| Dred Scott was one |
|
|
| Kind of labor |
|
|
| Dred Scott, e.g. |
|
|
| Frederic Douglass was one |
|
|
| Harriet Tubman was one |
|
|
| Serf |
|
|
| Joseph in Egypt |
|
|
| Turner or Tubman |
|
|
| Thrall |
|
|
| Little Harriet Tubman |
|
|
| Work hard |
|
|
| Spartacus was one |
|
|
| Choiceless worker |
|
|
| Helot |
|
|
| ___ bracelet |
|
|
| Eliza Harris, e.g. |
|
|
| Kind of bracelet |
|
|
| Canadian river, fed by the Peace |
|
|
| Caliban, to Prospero |
|
|
| Bondsman |
|
|
| Kind of labor or driver |
|
|
| Spartacus, for one |
|
|
| Bondman |
|
|
| Nat Turner, for one |
|
|
| Bracelet or ant |
|
|
| Joseph in Egypt, for one |
|
|
| Aesop, for one |
|
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| Toil |
|
|
| Serf. |
|
|
| "Be not the ___ of Words."—Carlyle. |
|
|
| Citizen of Hitler's new order. |
|
|
| Work like a dog |
|
|
| What Aesop was. |
|
|
| What Spartacus was. |
|
|
| Onetime status of Booker T. Washington. |
|
|
| Drudge. |
|
|
| Aida's status. |
|
|
| Toil. |
|
|
| Tom, in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." |
|
|
| Great ___ Lake. |
|
|
| Vassal. |
|
|
| Aida was one. |
|
|
| ___ bracelet. |
|
|
| Demetrius in "The Robe." |
|
|
| Bondsman. |
|
|
| ___ driver. |
|
|
| Worker for Simon Legree. |
|
|
| Spartacus was one. |
|
|
| Great ___ Lake, in Canada. |
|
|
| Dominated person. |
|
|
| Booker T. Washington was one. |
|
|
| Uncle Tom, for instance. |
|
|
| ___ labor. |
|
|
| One who is completely dominated. |
|
|
| Dred Scott was one. |
|
|
| Dred Scott. |
|
|
| Eliza Harris, for example. |
|
|
| Aesop's early status |
|
|