| Porcupine quill |
LA Times Daily |
30 Oct 2025 |
| Backbone |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Oct 2025 |
| Book's backbone |
Commuter |
25 Sep 2025 |
| Vertebra location |
|
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| Backbone (5) |
Mirror Classic |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Invertebrate's lack |
|
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| Distinguishing feature of vertebrates (5) |
The Guardian Weekend |
12 Jul 2025 |
| The coccyx is the lowest part of the what? (5) |
|
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| Disc holder? |
Universal |
07 Jul 2025 |
| Prickly bit of a cactus |
|
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| Backbone |
Newsday |
02 Jul 2025 |
| Vertical edge of a book where the pages are connected (5) |
|
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| Column of vertebrae |
|
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| Invertebrate's lack |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jun 2025 |
| Back long after the beginning of summer (5) |
|
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| The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton (5) |
|
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| Invertebrate's lack |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jun 2025 |
| It generally faces outward on a bookshelf |
|
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| Part of a book that encloses the pages' inner edges (5) |
|
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| The Southern tree had a prickle (5) |
|
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| It may tingle when one is frightened |
|
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| Courage to get small tree |
Mirror Cryptic |
26 Apr 2025 |
| Backbone |
Mirror Quick |
26 Apr 2025 |
| Series of bones supporting the back (5) |
|
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| Courage to get small tree |
Mirror Cryptic |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Backbone |
Mirror Quick |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Showing backbone, turn the key (5) |
|
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| Novel's need |
Newsday |
27 Mar 2025 |
| Body part that's a metaphor for courage |
LA Times Daily |
10 Mar 2025 |
| Where one feels a prickle of fear (5) |
|
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| ___ chilling : eerie? |
|
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| Back of a book |
Universal |
05 Mar 2025 |
| Strength of character |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Prickly backbone (5) |
|
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| Turn the key - it's thin and pointed (5) |
|
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| Backbone |
USA Today |
31 Jan 2025 |
| It consists of 24 bones |
|
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| Series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton |
Mirror Quiz |
26 Jan 2025 |
| Prickly part of southern tree |
|
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| Porcupine quill |
Newsday |
24 Jan 2025 |
| Courage to get small tree |
Mirror Cryptic |
23 Jan 2025 |
| Backbone |
Mirror Quick |
23 Jan 2025 |
| Something that sticks in the back (5) |
|
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| Book title's place |
Commuter |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Backbone |
The Telegraph Mini |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Backbone |
USA Today |
05 Jan 2025 |
| Backbone |
Mirror Classic |
04 Jan 2025 |
| Part of a book that paradoxically faces one when shelved (5) |
|
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| It supports me but nips at this point |
|
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| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Dec 2024 |
| Visible part of a book on many bookshelves |
|
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| It supports me but nips at one point |
|
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| Book identifier, often |
New York Times |
13 Dec 2024 |
| What a worm lacks and somehow pines for? (5) |
|
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| Part of book that could prove chilling? (5) |
|
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| Pointed spike and small needle producer (5) |
|
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| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Nov 2024 |
| This will prickle the back (5) |
|
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| Backbone |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Nov 2024 |
| Backbone |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Nips at this point of one's backbone |
|
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| It's attached to covers and sheets |
New York Times |
10 Nov 2024 |
| Courage of spies, mainly, getting tense at heart (5) |
|
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| Bone column in the back |
|
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| Backbone |
Mirror Classic |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Gumption |
Newsday |
10 Oct 2024 |
| Chine |
|
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| Backbone of a book |
Commuter |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Body part made up of 33 vertebrae |
|
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| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Sep 2024 |
| Row of backbones (5) |
|
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| Body part that anagrams to "penis" |
|
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| Backbone |
USA Today |
17 Sep 2024 |
| It has its point, putting book title on it (5) |
|
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| Backbone shown by Greek character in three directions (5) |
|
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| Loaded information at end of magazine column |
|
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| Backbone |
The Times Concise |
27 Aug 2024 |
| Book title location, typically |
Universal |
25 Aug 2024 |
| Determination to turn east (5) |
|
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| Courage to get second tree |
Mirror Cryptic |
22 Aug 2024 |
| Backbone |
Mirror Quick |
22 Aug 2024 |
| The backbone (5) |
|
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| Body part with discs |
Universal |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Courage |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2024 |
| Column in the back of a book! (5) |
|
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| Pines to have the required backbone |
|
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| It shows book title may be prickly (5) |
|
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| This pin enough to hide row of bones (5) |
|
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| ___-tingling (eerie) |
|
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| "My ___ split from carrying us up the hill" |
USA Today |
30 Jun 2024 |
| Porcupine feature |
|
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| How she pines but still shows backbone |
|
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| Location of the vertebra |
|
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| Sharp-backed mountain or ridge |
Puzzler Backwords |
31 May 2024 |
| It's painful when stuck in the back (5) |
|
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| Center of a book ... or a person |
|
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| Something prickly in the back of the book (5) |
|
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| Book's side |
|
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| Mental toughness shown in 19A/11 |
|
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| Needing backbone, she pines away |
|
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| It gives one personal backing and support |
|
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| Bottle some delicious pineapples |
|
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| Resolve |
LA Times Daily |
27 Apr 2024 |
| Backbone |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Apr 2024 |
| What an invertebrate lacks |
Universal |
24 Apr 2024 |
| Pines to have some backbone |
|
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| Backbone |
USA Today |
15 Apr 2024 |
| Turn the top of Erdinger bottle |
|
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| It's a prickly thing, backbone (5) |
|
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| Fortitude |
New York Times |
31 Mar 2024 |
| Part of a book or a skeleton |
USA Today |
29 Mar 2024 |
| Backbone |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Mar 2024 |
| Needle from small tree |
The Sun Two Speed |
22 Mar 2024 |
| A sharp projection at the back of the book (5) |
|
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| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Mar 2024 |
| This will stick in the back (5) |
|
|
| Its top part consists of the seven C's |
|
|
| Vertebrate feature |
Universal |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Backbone |
New York Times Mini |
17 Jan 2024 |
| A book, film, etc that arouses terror, _ -chiller (5) |
|
|
| Pines to show some backbone! |
|
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| Series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton |
Mirror Quiz |
24 Dec 2023 |
| Backbone |
Newsday |
29 Nov 2023 |
| Is it at the back of the book on anatomy? (5) |
|
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| Backbone |
Universal |
13 Nov 2023 |
| Back part of a book |
Newsday |
31 Oct 2023 |
| Backbone |
|
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| Cactus feature |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Aug 2023 |
| Criticise president being elevated, showing determination |
The Guardian Cryptic |
29 Aug 2023 |
| Book's backbone |
Newsday |
02 Aug 2023 |
| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Jul 2023 |
| Backbone |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Jul 2023 |
| Rapidly turn east, showing guts? |
The Times Cryptic |
08 May 2023 |
| Book's backing |
Newsday |
23 Apr 2023 |
| "The movie sent shivers down my ___" |
|
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| Backbone |
|
|
| Hard section of a textbook, perhaps |
LA Times Daily |
27 Jan 2023 |
| It's composed of 33 vertebrae |
Universal |
25 Dec 2022 |
| Firm resolution |
Newsday |
24 Dec 2022 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Book part |
LA Times Daily |
06 Nov 2022 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Book title spot |
Universal |
06 Aug 2022 |
| Novel part |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Aug 2022 |
| Title holder |
LA Times Daily |
22 Jul 2022 |
| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Jul 2022 |
| Urchin's stinger |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jun 2022 |
| Book's backbone |
USA Today |
01 Jun 2022 |
| Chiropractor’s focus |
Wall Street Journal |
09 May 2022 |
| Prominent location for a title |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Apr 2022 |
| Coward's lack, metaphorically |
|
|
| Backbone |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Mar 2022 |
| Coward's lack, figuratively |
The Washington Post |
20 Feb 2022 |
| Coward's lack, figuratively |
LA Times Daily |
20 Feb 2022 |
| Guts, so to speak |
The Washington Post Sunday |
16 Jan 2022 |
| Chiropractor's focus |
USA Today |
09 Jan 2022 |
| Sea urchin protrusion |
USA Today |
10 Nov 2021 |
| Thorn from small tree |
|
|
| Place for a title |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Sep 2021 |
| Courage |
LA Times Daily |
05 Sep 2021 |
| Courage |
The Washington Post |
05 Sep 2021 |
| ___-tingling (eerie) |
USA Today |
01 Sep 2021 |
| Back of the book |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Aug 2021 |
| Backbone |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Jul 2021 |
| Back column |
Premier Sunday |
27 Jun 2021 |
| Pines planted around your personal column? |
|
|
| Special long needle |
|
|
| Decisiveness |
LA Times Daily |
21 Apr 2021 |
| Decisiveness |
The Washington Post |
21 Apr 2021 |
| Backbone |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Place for a book title |
USA Today |
15 Apr 2021 |
| Pluck |
The Washington Post Sunday |
28 Mar 2021 |
| What's read from a bookshelf |
Newsday |
21 Mar 2021 |
| Moral fiber |
Newsday |
07 Mar 2021 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Backbone |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Dec 2020 |
| Bottle first of port during function |
|
|
| Crack heard every so often under small wooden sleeper in Victoria |
|
|
| Title holder |
The Washington Post |
15 Nov 2020 |
| Title holder |
LA Times Daily |
15 Nov 2020 |
| Backbone |
USA Today |
06 Nov 2020 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Willpower |
LA Times Daily |
06 Sep 2020 |
| Willpower |
The Washington Post |
06 Sep 2020 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Book part that is also present in the human body |
|
|
| Book part |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Jul 2020 |
| Part of a book |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Jul 2020 |
| Porcupine's point |
Universal |
24 Jul 2020 |
| Strength of character |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Jun 2020 |
| Backbone |
The Times Concise |
07 Apr 2020 |
| Gumption |
The New Yorker |
02 Mar 2020 |
| Book's backbone |
Newsday |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Where a shiver is felt |
Universal |
15 Jul 2019 |
| Fortitude |
New York Times |
23 Jun 2019 |
| Book's backing |
Newsday |
26 May 2019 |
| What a courageous person 'grows' |
The Washington Post Sunday |
12 May 2019 |
| Backbone |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2019 |
| What you might turn your head sideways to read, in a bookstore |
The New Yorker |
08 Apr 2019 |
| Coward's lack |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2019 |
| Series of vertebrae |
Irish Times Simplex |
09 Jan 2019 |
| Fortitude |
|
|
| Where a shiver is felt |
|
|
| Strength of character |
|
|
| Coward's lack |
|
|
| Strength of character |
Newsday |
22 Dec 2018 |
| Chiropractor's focus |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2018 |
| Chiropractors work it |
Universal |
13 Oct 2018 |
| Yen and cents in old money? That's scary |
|
|
| Leaders of strong parties, if necessary, exhibit backbone |
|
|
| Bottle first of Edradour drams up |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 May 2018 |
| Backbone |
The Washington Post |
04 May 2018 |
| Backbone |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2018 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Needle from small tree |
|
|
| Part of book's jacket |
The Times Concise |
05 Jan 2018 |
| Chiropractors work it |
|
|
| Chiropractor's focus |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Part of a book that holds it together |
Family Time |
24 Sep 2017 |
| Book part |
Canadiana |
18 Sep 2017 |
| Hold fast in corner, showing resolve |
|
|
| Book title's place |
USA Today |
22 Jul 2017 |
| Backbone |
New York Times |
17 Jul 2017 |
| Scary and upsetting, clutching awfully nice husband |
|
|
| Porcupine quill |
Newsday |
11 Jun 2017 |
| Chiropractor's concern |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jun 2017 |
| Chiropractor's concern |
The Washington Post |
01 Jun 2017 |
| Book title location |
Wall Street Journal |
15 May 2017 |
| Cactus feature |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Apr 2017 |
| ___-tingling |
Universal |
07 Apr 2017 |
| Holder of disks |
LA Times Daily |
02 Apr 2017 |
| Holder of disks |
The Washington Post |
02 Apr 2017 |
| Title locale |
New York Times |
17 Mar 2017 |
| Hardcover book part |
Universal |
17 Feb 2017 |
| It may tingle when one is frightened |
Universal |
26 Jan 2017 |
| Title locale |
|
|
| Chiropractor's concern |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| It may tingle when one is frightened |
|
|
| ___-tingling |
|
|
| Book title's place |
|
|
| Chiropractic concern |
The Washington Post |
16 Nov 2016 |
| Book's backbone |
USA Today |
12 Oct 2016 |
| Backbone |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Sep 2016 |
| Coward's lack, figuratively |
USA Today |
15 Sep 2016 |
| Place for a book title |
Newsday |
14 Aug 2016 |
| Gumption |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
05 Aug 2016 |
| Moral fiber |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jun 2016 |
| In old money, wood is scary |
|
|
| Guts, oddly |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
29 Jan 2016 |
| Book backing |
Newsday |
17 Jan 2016 |
| Moral fiber |
|
|
| Coward's lack, figuratively |
|
|
| Guts, oddly |
|
|
| Gumption |
|
|
| Second long part of hardback? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Dec 2015 |
| Book back |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Dec 2015 |
| Personal column? |
|
|
| Back of a book? |
USA Today |
30 Oct 2015 |
| Chiropractor's concern |
Universal |
22 Aug 2015 |
| Title holder? |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Apr 2015 |
| Backbone |
|
|
| Back of a book? |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Chiropractor's concern |
|
|
| Coward's lack |
|
|
| Book's backbone |
|
|
| Thorn from small tree |
|
|
| Book or body part |
|
|
| Might get a chill down it, during show |
|
|
| Chiropractic concentration |
|
|
| Book binding |
|
|
| Gumption |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| It may tingle |
|
|
| What cowards lack |
|
|
| Backbone of a book |
|
|
| Small piano |
|
|
| Book and body part |
|
|
| What a chiropractor manipulates |
|
|
| Porcupine quill |
|
|
| What a chiropractor manipulates |
|
|
| Skeletal axis |
|
|
| Chiropractor's target |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Invertebrate's lack |
|
|
| They Might Be Giants '04 album "The ___" |
|
|
| Contortionist's bendy part |
|
|
| Chicken's lack |
|
|
| Where the chills happen at show |
|
|
| Coward's lack |
|
|
| 2004 They Might Be Giants album (with "The") |
|
|
| Vertebra locale |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Chicken's lack |
|
|
| Book backing |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| Moral fiber |
|
|
| Cactus needle |
|
|
| Hedgehog feature |
|
|
| Place for a book title |
|
|
| Gumption |
|
|
| Chiropractor's target |
|
|
| Title holder |
|
|
| Moral fiber |
|
|
| Book backbone |
|
|
| Chiropractor's target |
|
|
| Courage |
|
|
| Gumption |
|
|
| Coward's lack |
|
|
| Place for a book title |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Courage |
|
|
| Porcupine quill |
|
|
| What a chiropractor manipulates |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Courage |
|
|
| Place for a book title |
|
|
| Courage |
|
|
| Fish leftover |
|
|
| Back of the book? |
|
|
| Subject for a chiropractor |
|
|
| Coward's lack |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Gumption |
|
|
| It may be tingling |
|
|
| Resolve |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Title location |
|
|
| Resoluteness |
|
|
| Place for many a title |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Title location |
|
|
| Quill, e.g. |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Place for a title |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Small harpsichord |
|
|
| It can be tapped |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| Milksop's lack |
|
|
| Place for a title |
|
|
| Title holder? |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| Part of a book |
|
|
| Courage |
|
|
| Part of a book |
|
|
| Resolve |
|
|
| Backbone of a book |
|
|
| Coward's lack, figuratively |
|
|
| Epidural site |
|
|
| Hedgehog feature |
|
|
| It tingles at times |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| Coward's lack |
|
|
| Backbone |
|
|
| Title holder? |
|
|
| It has disks |
|
|
| Bookbinder's back |
|
|
| ___ -tingling: eerie |
|
|
| Book backbone |
|
|
| ___ -tingling: eerie |
|
|
| Chiropractor's concern |
|
|
| Assertiveness |
|
|
| Porcupine's pointer |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Refusal to buckle |
|
|
| Book's back |
|
|
| Tingle area? |
|
|
| Chiropractor's concern |
|
|
| Milksop's lack |
|
|
| Orthopedists's concern |
|
|
| Bookbinding piece |
|
|
| Paemani's leader seized by Caesar's without conviction? |
|
|
| Book or body part |
|
|
| Gumption |
|
|
| Quill |
|
|
| Fish leftover |
|
|
| Part of a book |
|
|
| ___-tingling |
|
|
| Back of a book |
|
|
| Book part |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| Vertebra locale |
|
|
| Back of the book |
|
|
| Quill |
|
|
| Hardcover part |
|
|
| Part of a book |
|
|
| Stiffness |
|
|
| Part of a book |
|
|
| Book's back |
|
|
| Part of a tome |
|
|
| Book back |
|
|
| Courage |
|
|
| Rachis |
|
|
| Prickle |
|
|
| Thorn |
|
|
| Intestinal fortitude |
|
|
| Porcupine's protection |
|
|
| Part of a cactus |
|
|
| Bookbinder's item |
|
|
| Part of a book cover |
|
|
| Ridge |
|
|
| Symbol of courage |
|
|
| Cactus bristle. |
|
|
| Part of a book. |
|
|
| Book part that displays a title |
|
|
| Backbone. |
|
|
| Cactus feature. |
|
|
| Feature of 45 Across. |
|
|
| Ridge. |
|
|
| Part of a cactus. |
|
|
| Back line? |
|
|
| "Do they so want peace . . . that they've lost their ___?"—Page. |
|
|
| Sharp point. |
|
|
| Porcupine's quill. |
|
|
| The back of a book cover. |
|
|
| The back of a book. |
|
|
| Tip of a holly leaf. |
|
|
| Back of a book. |
|
|
| Back of a bound book. |
|
|
| Quill. |
|
|
| Book part. |
|
|
| Thorn. |
|
|
| Thornlike process. |
|
|
| Title holder |
|
|
| Central axis. |
|
|
| Porcupine quill. |
|
|