| Sort of gamble offering little in starting price (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
16 Aug 2025 |
| Brushman to wipe out at a stroke (5) |
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| Use a broom to clean the floor, say |
|
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| Sooty's co-star (5) |
|
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| Clean up in lottery |
|
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| Gather dust, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Cricket shot from a half-kneeling stance (S) 15 Laurent ...... former France defender who was also their head coach from 2010-12 (5) |
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| Make a clean-up at the lottery |
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| Use a broom |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Apr 2025 |
| Name for person who cleans chimneys (5) |
|
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| Clean with broom (5) |
|
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| Use brush (5) |
|
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| Pass swiftly in a curve to get a dust-up? (5) |
|
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| Win every game |
Universal |
26 Mar 2025 |
| Waste matter absorbed by special brush (5) |
|
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| Canine companion of glove puppet Sooty |
Mirror Quiz |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Leg side shot of Calcutta? (5) |
|
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| Brush off the funny looking sheep quietly (5) |
|
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| Clean up in the lottery perhaps (5) |
|
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| Use a broom to clear range (5) |
|
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| Heed the curling skip |
|
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| Sooty's pal (5) |
|
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| Clean compass |
|
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| The winning of all the prizes in legal lottery! (5,5) (See 5D) |
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| Use a broom |
Commuter |
18 Feb 2025 |
| Clean and search for bugs |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Clean up in a lottery (5) |
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| Wield a broom |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Go majestically |
|
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| Extent of blubber on lass's rear? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Jan 2025 |
| Clean up the lottery (5) |
|
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| Person who cleans chimneys (5) |
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| Use a broom for search (5) |
|
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| Use a broom |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Brush the floor |
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| Clean with a broom |
Mirror Tea Time |
24 Dec 2024 |
| Pass swiftly by lottery (5) |
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| Cry following son being forced into Victorian labour |
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| Use a brush on the floor, say |
The Telegraph Mini |
09 Dec 2024 |
| One who has a brush-up at work (5) |
|
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| Clean with a broom |
Mirror Classic |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Tidy up the floors |
|
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| Use a broom - but not the Cytisus type! (5) |
|
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| Use a broom to clean the floor, say |
|
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| Four wins out of four, e.g. |
New York Times Mini |
27 Oct 2024 |
| Canine friend of Sooty (5) |
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| Extend in a long arch |
|
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| Clean the floor |
Family Time |
13 Oct 2024 |
| Clear with a broom |
|
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| Large graceful curve |
|
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| Use a broom |
Mirror Tea Time |
25 Sep 2024 |
| ...and puppet who cleans chimneys (5) |
|
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| Brush out the pews around the end of the nave (5) |
|
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| Clean up a gambling enterprise (5) |
|
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| Win all the games of a series |
LA Times Mini |
13 Sep 2024 |
| Chimney cleaner |
Newsday |
08 Sep 2024 |
| TV's "Supermarket ___" |
|
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| Move majestically |
|
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| Sequence of sports wins |
|
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| Win every game |
Newsday |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Sooty's friend (5) |
|
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| Brush lottery (5) |
|
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| Use a broom |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Aug 2024 |
| Clean with a broom |
The Times Concise |
27 Jul 2024 |
| Cleaner oar (5) |
|
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| Sooty's best friend. (5) |
|
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| Odds on horse possessing little range |
|
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| Cocker spaniel puppet who joined The Sooty Show in 1957(5) |
|
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| Puppet friend of Sooty |
The Telegraph Mini |
29 Jun 2024 |
| Sooty's sidekick |
Mirror Tea Time |
26 Jun 2024 |
| Clean up crumbs |
|
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| Win every game of a series |
Universal |
17 Jun 2024 |
| He cleans up the lottery (5) |
|
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| Use broom |
|
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| Chimney cleaner |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Jun 2024 |
| Win all the games |
Universal |
03 Jun 2024 |
| Brush aside cry from prime suspect (5) |
|
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| Chimney cleaner |
Thomas Joseph |
31 May 2024 |
| Sooty's dog pal |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
25 May 2024 |
| Use the broom on those Eastern pews |
|
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| Remove dirt with a broom |
|
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| Use a broom |
Commuter |
01 May 2024 |
| Lottery makes son cry (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
28 Apr 2024 |
| Sooty's squeaky friend (5) |
|
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| Tidy the floors |
|
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| Use a broom |
Commuter |
10 Apr 2024 |
| One giving the chimney a brush up? |
|
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| Work with a broom |
|
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| Brush off the idea of such a chancy transaction |
|
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| First bit of stinking blubber to clean up |
|
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| Form a long curved shape |
|
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| Southwestern Energy's record surge |
|
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| Not much between the odds in gamble (5) |
|
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| Search range (5) |
|
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| Lottery makes son cry (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
10 Feb 2024 |
| Four-game World Series, e.g. |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Jan 2024 |
| Cricket shot taken from a half-kneeling stance (5) |
|
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| Do a household chore |
Commuter |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Second cry for chimney cleaner (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
16 Dec 2023 |
| Chimney cleaner |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Dec 2023 |
| Clean the floor |
Commuter |
05 Dec 2023 |
| Glide |
|
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| Win every game of a postseason series |
|
|
| Search could make son cry |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Nov 2023 |
| Use a broom |
LA Times Daily |
14 Nov 2023 |
| Clean with a broom |
USA Today |
10 Nov 2023 |
| Bug hunt |
Newsday |
14 Oct 2023 |
| Check for bugs in room: it's a lottery |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Sep 2023 |
| Search for bugs |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Sep 2023 |
| A clean one is a total victory |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Aug 2023 |
| Success succession |
Newsday |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Go undefeated in a tournament |
Universal |
15 May 2023 |
| Win all the games |
Universal |
11 May 2023 |
| Clean with a broom |
Newsday |
27 Feb 2023 |
| Use a broom |
Universal |
27 Feb 2023 |
| Clean with a broom |
The Times Concise |
13 Oct 2022 |
| Win every game of a series |
New York Times |
09 Aug 2022 |
| Remove dirt with a brush |
Irish Times Simplex |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Use a broom |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Brush |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 May 2022 |
| Work with a broom |
|
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| Move across a surface with a brush |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 Apr 2022 |
| Win every game |
USA Today |
23 Dec 2021 |
| Use a broom |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Nov 2021 |
| One can be clean — but not after work? |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Nov 2021 |
| Brush up — look for bugs |
The Guardian Quick |
05 Oct 2021 |
| Gather dust? |
Universal |
04 Oct 2021 |
| Clean with a broom |
|
|
| One of eight Yankee World Series victories |
LA Times Daily |
05 Sep 2021 |
| One of eight Yankee World Series victories |
The Washington Post |
05 Sep 2021 |
| One way to clean |
Newsday |
04 Jul 2021 |
| Win every game |
Newsday |
26 May 2021 |
| Tidy up a porch |
Universal |
24 May 2021 |
| Wield a broom |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Mar 2021 |
| Clean and search for bugs |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Mar 2021 |
| Push church seating back to accommodate end of cortege |
|
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| Win every game |
New York Times |
29 Nov 2020 |
| What the last defender might do on all sides today |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Nov 2020 |
| Clean a porch |
Universal |
04 Oct 2020 |
| Clean close to aisle in upturned seats |
|
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| Prize draw |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Jul 2020 |
| Kind of 15, one often dirty? It could be clean |
|
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| Take up broom? |
Jonesin |
30 Jun 2020 |
| Clean with a broom |
New York Times |
29 Jun 2020 |
| ___ the floor (clean) |
|
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| Check for bugs |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Mar 2020 |
| Win overwhelmingly |
New York Times |
03 Mar 2020 |
| Comprehensive search |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Mar 2020 |
| Use a broom to clean the floor, say |
|
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| Clean the floor with a broom, say |
|
|
| Look (for), as electronic bugs |
The Washington Post |
17 Dec 2019 |
| Look (for), as electronic bugs |
LA Times Daily |
17 Dec 2019 |
| Win every game |
LA Times Daily |
25 Sep 2019 |
| Win every game |
The Washington Post |
25 Sep 2019 |
| Gradually escape, spanning wide range |
|
|
| Use a broom |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Sep 2019 |
| Move across a surface with a brush |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Jun 2019 |
| Win every game |
Universal |
14 Jun 2019 |
| 4-0, e.g |
New York Times |
14 Apr 2019 |
| Take a broom to |
The Washington Post |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Take a broom to |
LA Times Daily |
02 Apr 2019 |
| Small painting's start holding small brush |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Mar 2019 |
| Sooty's pal Soo's beginning to cry |
|
|
| Use a broom |
Canadiana |
25 Mar 2019 |
| Win the first four World Series games |
The Washington Post |
14 Feb 2019 |
| Win the first four World Series games |
LA Times Daily |
14 Feb 2019 |
| Gather dust? |
New York Times |
18 Jan 2019 |
| Take a broom to |
|
|
| Gather dust? |
|
|
| 4-0, e.g. |
|
|
| Win the first four World Series games |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| 4-0 series, say |
New York Times |
23 Dec 2018 |
| Check for listening devices |
USA Today |
12 Dec 2018 |
| Win every game of |
Premier Sunday |
09 Dec 2018 |
| Lopsided playoff result |
The Washington Post Sunday |
25 Nov 2018 |
| Win every prize in |
New York Times |
04 Nov 2018 |
| Do a little housework |
Universal |
29 Oct 2018 |
| Wide scope |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Oct 2018 |
| Wield a broom |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Oct 2018 |
| Clean with brush |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Oct 2018 |
| Lottery odds? Very small, essentially |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Clean seats returned around end of June |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Sep 2018 |
| Win all games |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Aug 2018 |
| Extent of blubber on lass's rear? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jul 2018 |
| Clean with a whisk |
USA Today |
14 Jun 2018 |
| ''Clean'' series win |
Newsday |
13 May 2018 |
| Brush |
The Times Concise |
18 Mar 2018 |
| Chimney cleaner |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Feb 2018 |
| Win every prize in |
|
|
| Clean with a whisk |
|
|
| Do a little housework |
|
|
| Check for listening devices |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| 4-0 series, say |
|
|
| Popeye's boy |
New York Times |
03 Dec 2017 |
| Do a custodial job |
USA Today |
25 Aug 2017 |
| Win every game in a series |
Universal |
23 May 2017 |
| Dust benches erected around start of evensong |
|
|
| Win four of four games, say |
USA Today |
01 May 2017 |
| Puppet that's small? Small and quiet |
|
|
| Use a broom |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Feb 2017 |
| Suffer no losses |
Newsday |
28 Jan 2017 |
| Series shutout |
Universal |
23 Jan 2017 |
| Curving drive is clean |
|
|
| Win every game in a series |
|
|
| Win four of four games, say |
|
|
| Do a custodial job |
|
|
| Take four of four games, say |
USA Today |
12 Dec 2016 |
| Range is clear |
|
|
| Range is clear |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Dec 2016 |
| Go 4-0 in the Series, e.g |
New York Times |
21 Nov 2016 |
| Small, small page to examine electronically |
|
|
| Use a broom |
LA Times Daily |
20 Sep 2016 |
| Goes around skirting with brush |
|
|
| 4-0 series victory, e.g |
The Washington Post |
20 Jun 2016 |
| Wield a broom |
USA Today |
18 Mar 2016 |
| Defeat all competitors in |
The Washington Post |
12 Feb 2016 |
| Gambling where odds may be about negligible |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Jan 2016 |
| Go 4-0 in the Series, e.g. |
|
|
| Use a broom |
|
|
| Wield a broom |
|
|
| Take four of four games, say |
|
|
| Clean up in the lottery |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Nov 2015 |
| Win all the games |
Jonesin |
03 Nov 2015 |
| 4-0 World Series win, e.g |
Universal |
03 Nov 2015 |
| Wield a broom |
Universal |
21 Sep 2015 |
| 4-0 World Series win, e.g |
New York Times |
21 Sep 2015 |
| Clean the floor |
Family Time |
10 Aug 2015 |
| Brush; rush |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jun 2015 |
| Chimney cleaner |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 May 2015 |
| 4-0 World Series win, e.g. |
|
|
| 4-0 World Series win, e.g. |
|
|
| Wield a broom |
|
|
| Lottery's not big in Spain |
|
|
| Series shutout |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| Electronic security check |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| Prize may make son cry |
|
|
| Word with "chimney" or "clean" |
|
|
| Go 4-0, maybe |
|
|
| Bug hunt |
|
|
| Win the World Series without a loss |
|
|
| 4-0 series win, e.g. |
|
|
| Win four out of four, say |
|
|
| Gamble with broom? |
|
|
| Win it all |
|
|
| See 26 Across |
|
|
| Clean the floor |
|
|
| Four straight wins to start the World Series, e.g. |
|
|
| "Chimney" or "clean" follower |
|
|
| Check for electronic bugs |
|
|
| Karate move |
|
|
| Four-game World Series, e.g. |
|
|
| Clean the floor |
|
|
| Check for bugs |
|
|
| Examine electronically |
|
|
| Clean the floor |
|
|
| Lose no games |
|
|
| Win every game of a series |
|
|
| Lose no games |
|
|
| Clean with a broom |
|
|
| Clean, in a way |
|
|
| 7-0 record, e.g. |
|
|
| Win the World Series in four games, say |
|
|
| Remove dust bunnies |
|
|
| Use a broom |
|
|
| Remove dust bunnies |
|
|
| Win all the games |
|
|
| Win every game, as in the World Series |
|
|
| Lopsided postseason result |
|
|
| Take three of three, say |
|
|
| 4-0 World Series win, e.g. |
|
|
| Win without losing once |
|
|
| Football play |
|
|
| End run |
|
|
| Win three of three |
|
|
| Search thoroughly |
|
|
| The 2007 World Series, for one |
|
|
| Check for bugs |
|
|
| 4-0 series win, e.g. |
|
|
| Win the first four games in a World Series, e.g. |
|
|
| Use a broom |
|
|
| Military search |
|
|
| Check for bugs |
|
|
| Clean or chimney follower |
|
|
| Chimney chaser |
|
|
| Clean with a broom |
|
|
| Clean house? |
|
|
| Search thoroughly, as with radar |
|
|
| Vacuum |
|
|
| Four for four, say |
|
|
| 4-0 Series win |
|
|
| Search thoroughly, as with radar |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| "Clean" series win |
|
|
| Take three of three |
|
|
| Total victory |
|
|
| Win all games in a series |
|
|
| Word with chimney or clean |
|
|
| Take four of four, say |
|
|
| Take four out of four, maybe |
|
|
| Win them all |
|
|
| Use a broom |
|
|
| Take four of four, say |
|
|
| Reform, for one |
|
|
| Win the series in four |
|
|
| Clean the floor |
|
|
| One way to clean |
|
|
| Clean the carpet |
|
|
| Four-game World Series, e.g. |
|
|
| Check a room for bugs |
|
|
| Claim every prize |
|
|
| Full-scale victory |
|
|
| Use a broom |
|
|
| Clean a chimney |
|
|
| Win without losing |
|
|
| Dick Van Dyke, in "Mary Poppins" |
|
|
| Chimney cleaner |
|
|
| Wield a broom |
|
|
| Grand slam, e.g. |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| Win decisively |
|
|
| Clean finish? |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| Clean |
|
|
| Use a broom |
|
|
| What Cinderella had to do |
|
|
| Win every game of |
|
|
| Win the first four World Series games |
|
|
| Clean with a broom |
|
|
| It's often clean |
|
|
| Escape grasping wife, getting clean away? |
|
|
| Win each game of a series |
|
|
| Win every game |
|
|
| Check for electronic bugs |
|
|
| Win without losing once |
|
|
| "YANKS ___ PADRES!" |
|
|
| Range |
|
|
| Win everything |
|
|
| Win a series |
|
|
| Win the works |
|
|
| Win all the games |
|
|
| Football maneuver |
|
|
| Win completely |
|
|
| It's clean at times |
|
|
| Succession of wins |
|
|
| Lottery, for short |
|
|
| Tidy up |
|
|
| Win every match |
|
|
| Win all the games in a series |
|
|
| Range or compass |
|
|
| Win all of a series |
|
|
| Pass swiftly over |
|
|
| Long oar |
|
|
| Chimney or clean follower |
|
|
| Pass in a stately way |
|
|
| Win every game in a series |
|
|
| Do cleaning work |
|
|
| Chimney cleaner |
|
|
| Conquer all |
|
|
| Clean or chimney |
|
|
| Brush. |
|
|
| Clean up. |
|
|
| Win 4 out of 4 |
|
|
| Brush away. |
|
|
| Post-election office cleanup. |
|
|
| Clean by brushing. |
|
|
| Clean ___. |
|
|
| Swift onward course. |
|
|
| Do a household chore. |
|
|
| Complete victory. |
|
|
| Unimpeded forward movement. |
|
|
| Win all events. |
|
|
| Long oar. |
|
|
| Oar. |
|
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