| Part of a barrel |
Commuter |
07 Mar 2026 |
| Stick with lines for scoring (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
28 Feb 2026 |
| Barrel component |
LA Times Daily |
22 Feb 2026 |
| Part of a barrel |
Commuter |
06 Jan 2026 |
| Musical staff; Vesta (anag.) |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
31 Oct 2025 |
| Barrel piece |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Oct 2025 |
| Strip of wood from which a bow is carved |
New York Times |
20 Sep 2025 |
| Trump initially brought in to cut back staff (5) |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Aug 2025 |
| Musical grid |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Jul 2025 |
| Type initially brought in to cut back staff |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Jul 2025 |
| Curved wood strip |
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| Barrel part |
Commuter |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Musical staff |
The Telegraph Mini |
25 Jun 2025 |
| Two ways to break in (5) |
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| Part of a cask's side |
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| Pitch lines for written music (5) |
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| Musical notation line (5) |
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| What is a curved piece of wood in the side of a cask? (5) |
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| Two short ways to make wooden strip |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Feb 2025 |
| Vertical wooden post (5) |
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| Vertical wooden post retained by this tavern (5) |
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| Postpone something bad |
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| Score lines marked out on a vest (5) |
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| Hold (off) |
LA Times Daily |
14 Dec 2024 |
| Use a vest to break the cask (5) |
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| Barrel part |
Commuter |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Avert, with "off" |
LA Times Mini |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Musical staff; wooden stick |
The Telegraph Plusword |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Ward (off) |
LA Times Daily |
19 Nov 2024 |
| Break in staff (5) |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Trump initially brought in to cut back staff |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Musical grid |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Five musical lines (5) |
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| Musical grid |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Type initially brought in to cut back staff |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Fend (off) |
New York Times |
09 Sep 2024 |
| Barrel slat |
Family Time |
02 Sep 2024 |
| Barrel part |
Commuter |
27 Jul 2024 |
| What to write notes on |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
22 Jul 2024 |
| Five lines on which music is written (5) |
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| Hail to the saint in the barrel! (5) |
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| Musical staff |
The Telegraph Mini |
26 May 2024 |
| Stick to five lines (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
22 Apr 2024 |
| ____ off (avert) |
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| Strip of wood on barrel (5) |
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| Verse of poem links street and avenue (5) |
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| Cask section |
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| Staff in music |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Barrel strip |
LA Times Daily |
17 Mar 2024 |
| Just what the music student should make notes on (5) |
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| Narrow piece of wood |
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| Musical lines from "14 Down" (5) |
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| Section of First Avenue on which bars are found |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Jan 2024 |
| Section of First Avenue on which bars are found (5) |
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| Barrel strip |
Newsday |
05 Jan 2024 |
| Set of lines in music (5) |
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| In music, an individual group of five lines and four spaces used in staff notation (5) |
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| Barrel strip |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Dec 2023 |
| ___ off, delay (5) |
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| ___ off (prevent) |
USA Today |
01 Dec 2023 |
| Barrel piece |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Sep 2023 |
| Ward (off) |
Newsday |
30 Aug 2023 |
| Narrow length of wood used to make barrels or pipes |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
16 Jul 2023 |
| ___ off (keep at bay) |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2023 |
| __ off (avert) |
Newsday |
16 Nov 2022 |
| Two short ways to create part of musical system |
The Guardian Quiptic |
03 Oct 2022 |
| Two short ways to create part of musical system |
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| Lines on which music is written |
New York Times |
25 Sep 2022 |
| Fend (off) |
LA Times Daily |
07 Aug 2022 |
| __ off (avert) |
Newsday |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Ward (off) |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Ward (off) |
LA Times Daily |
01 May 2022 |
| Ward (off) |
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| Wood in inverted barrels close to quayside? |
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| ___ off (prevent) |
USA Today |
04 Apr 2022 |
| Barrel piece |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Feb 2022 |
| Barrel part |
Newsday |
06 Feb 2022 |
| Barrel piece |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Jan 2022 |
| Part of wooden barrel |
The Times Concise |
30 Dec 2021 |
| Barrel plank |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Dec 2021 |
| ___ off (prevent) |
USA Today |
06 Sep 2021 |
| Notes written here in Home Counties about tax return |
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| A couple of small streets' staff |
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| Poem portion |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Jun 2021 |
| ___ off (prevent) |
USA Today |
14 May 2021 |
| Wine barrel strip |
New York Times |
02 May 2021 |
| Barrel strip |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Apr 2021 |
| Word used in place of 'chapter' in 'A Christmas Carol' |
New York Times |
18 Mar 2021 |
| Bevelled plank for making a barrel - or fivel horizontal lines in music notation |
The Guardian Weekend |
27 Feb 2021 |
| Hold (off) |
Newsday |
10 Feb 2021 |
| Strip of wood: stanza |
The Guardian Speedy |
10 Jan 2021 |
| Ward (off) |
LA Times Daily |
06 Oct 2020 |
| Ward (off) |
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| Barrel piece |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Sep 2020 |
| Barrel component |
LA Times Daily |
23 Aug 2020 |
| Barrel component |
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| Prevent, with ''off'' |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2020 |
| __ off (keep from happening) |
Newsday |
13 Apr 2020 |
| ___ off (fend off a threat) |
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| Run into pole — fast! |
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| Hold (off) |
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| Fend (off) |
Premier Sunday |
17 Nov 2019 |
| Fend (off) |
Newsday |
27 Oct 2019 |
| ___ off (avert) |
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| Fend (off) |
Universal |
02 Sep 2019 |
| Trump initially brought in to cut back staff |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Aug 2019 |
| Musical grid |
The Sun Two Speed |
15 Aug 2019 |
| Strip of a barrel |
Newsday |
07 Jul 2019 |
| Repel, with ''off'' |
Newsday |
31 Mar 2019 |
| Avert with "off" |
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| Verse, in poet, looking back, not his first? Could be |
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| ___ off (fend off a threat) |
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| Avoid, when used with "off" |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Barrel piece |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Dec 2018 |
| Ward (off) |
Newsday |
19 Nov 2018 |
| Staff in more ways than one |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Nov 2018 |
| Ward (off) |
Premier Sunday |
14 Oct 2018 |
| Barrel part |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2018 |
| Cask component |
USA Today |
29 Sep 2018 |
| Cooper's piece |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Aug 2018 |
| Avert, with "off" |
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| Barrel strip |
Universal |
05 May 2018 |
| Barrel slat |
Premier Sunday |
25 Mar 2018 |
| System of five horizontal lines in written music |
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| Barrel part |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Cask component |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Cooper's piece |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Barrel slat |
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| Piece of wood to recover? About time! |
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| Fend (off) |
New York Times |
27 Jul 2017 |
| Bar seen on roads |
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| Barrel part |
New York Times |
22 Mar 2017 |
| Staff to cut costs? About time |
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| Avert, with 'off' |
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| Barrel part |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Avoid, with "off" |
LA Times Daily |
08 Nov 2016 |
| Two ways to make musical lines |
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| A vet's arranged place for notes |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Jul 2016 |
| Repel, with "off" |
USA Today |
30 Jun 2016 |
| Staff hitting one small road after another |
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| Ward (off) |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Jan 2016 |
| Wooden pail part |
New York Times |
02 Jan 2016 |
| Avoid, with "off" |
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| Repel, with "off" |
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| Wooden pail part |
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| Barrel support |
LA Times Daily |
09 Dec 2015 |
| Lines for writing music |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Dec 2015 |
| Stick to five lines |
The Sun Two Speed |
02 Dec 2015 |
| The lines on which music is written |
The Times Concise |
13 Aug 2015 |
| Forestall, with 'off' |
New York Times |
26 Apr 2015 |
| __ off (avert) |
Newsday |
06 Apr 2015 |
| Forestall, with "off" |
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| Barrel support |
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| __ off (avert) |
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| Avert, with "off" |
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| Forestall, with "off" |
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| Barrel rib |
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| Barrel component |
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| Repel, with "off" |
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| ___ off (forestall) |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Barrel slat |
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| ___ off (forestall) |
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| Part of a barrel |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Barrel support |
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| Barrel slat |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Cask component |
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| __ off (forestall) |
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| Barrel support |
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| Barrel board |
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| Avert, with "off" |
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| Fight (off) |
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| Barrel rib |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Hold (off) |
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| Barrel rib |
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| Barrel component |
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| Part of a barrel |
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| Part of a barrel |
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| Prevent, with "off" |
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| Barrel part |
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| Hold (off) |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Barrel slat |
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| Barrel bracer |
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| Cask slat |
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| Avert (with "off") |
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| Song verse |
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| Barrel support |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Barrel part |
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| Cask part |
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| Cooper's part |
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| __ off (repel) |
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| Barrel slat |
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| Ward (off) |
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| Cask component |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Barrel part |
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| Barrel part |
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| Avert, with "off" |
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| Prevent, with "off" |
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| Barrel part |
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| Avoid, with "off" |
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| Avert, with "off" |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Barrel part |
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| Strip of the barrel |
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| Cask part |
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| Part of a barrel |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Cask part |
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| Barrel slat |
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| Barrel strip |
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| It takes notes |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Barrel part |
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| Barrel element |
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| Barrel element |
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| Cask element |
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| Wood strip |
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| Feature of 21 Across |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Barrel piece |
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| Cooper's board |
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| Stanza |
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| ___ off: forestall |
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| Fend off |
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| Barrel strip |
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| Barrel slat |
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| Cask part |
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| Part of the cask |
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| Norwegian___church |
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| Rung |
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| Cooper's material |
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| Cudgel |
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| Barrel constituent |
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| See 30 Across |
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| Smash inward |
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| Vat slat |
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| __ off (forestall) |
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| Keg part |
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| Break up |
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| Friar Tuck's cudgel |
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| Poetic stanza |
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| Stanza |
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| Rung, for one |
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| Set of verses |
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| Crush inward |
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| Fend (off) |
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| Ladder rung |
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| Part of a cask |
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| Poem part |
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| Part of poem |
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| Verse |
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| Part of a poem |
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| Chair rung |
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| Stick. |
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| Lines on which music is written. |
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| Ladder bar. |
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| Poem part. |
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| Iron band. |
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| A verse or stanza. |
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| Poetry stanza |
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| Cooper's piece |
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| Stick of wood. |
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| Musical division. |
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| Rung. |
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| Ladder rung. |
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| Break up or in. |
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| Barrel slat. |
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| Barrel side. |
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| Musical staff. |
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| Part of a barrel or bucket. |
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| Piece of a barrel. |
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| Stick or staff. |
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| Cudgel for Robin Hood. |
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| Part of a cask. |
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| Ward (off). |
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| Stanza. |
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| Verse. |
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| Cudgel. |
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| Part of a keg. |
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| Barrel part. |
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| Set of verses. |
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| Set of verses, as a stanza. |
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| Part of a barrel. |
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