| Veracity |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
02 Sep 2025 |
| Veracity (5) |
Mirror Classic |
14 Aug 2025 |
| "Facts!" |
LA Times Daily |
18 Jul 2025 |
| Veracity |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jul 2025 |
| "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of ___ upon them" (Ida B. Wells) |
LA Times Mini |
19 Jun 2025 |
| Philosopher's pursuit |
New York Times |
18 May 2025 |
| 'Is there no _ in beauty?' (George Herbert 'Jordan (1)) |
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| Witness requirement |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Apr 2025 |
| Veracity(5) |
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| Answer honestly: tell the - |
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| Factual statement |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Gospel |
New York Times |
10 Apr 2025 |
| Time For _ (5) |
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| The Ugly -, Katherine Heigl romcom (5) |
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| Our star's movie: The Whole - |
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| "___ or dare?" (party game) |
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| Veracity |
Mirror Classic |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Factual accuracy |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Feb 2025 |
| Dare alternative |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Feb 2025 |
| Honest statement that can be stretched and made dishonest |
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| Factual statement |
Newsday |
14 Jan 2025 |
| "To tell you the - ..." |
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| A letter to Ruth from Vera (5) |
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| Honesty |
Mirror Tea Time |
22 Nov 2024 |
| The X-Files slogan: The - is out there |
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| I left it to the woman to provide facts (5) |
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| In plain fact, a letter can possibly hurt (5) |
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| Verity, a model Moabite woman (5) |
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| Veracity |
Mirror Classic |
17 Nov 2024 |
| Be honest: tell the - |
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| "The ___ will set you free. But not until it is finished with you": David Foster Wallace |
New York Times Mini |
05 Nov 2024 |
| Honest fact |
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| Social media platform owned by Donald Trump. (5,6) |
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| Real story of the first Bible book (5) |
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| The first lady called Verity (5) |
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| A tow-headed girl, in fact (5) |
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| Even half of it can possibly hurt! (5) |
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| What's accurate might hurt tip-top version (5) |
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| The -, 2012 novel by Michael Palin |
Mirror Quiz |
14 Sep 2024 |
| Honesty in a letter to a girl |
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| Veracity, the ... of the matter |
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| Veracity |
Mirror Classic |
29 Aug 2024 |
| __ or dare |
Commuter |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Veracity |
Mirror Classic |
11 Aug 2024 |
| Known facts of the first Bible book (5) |
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| Absolute fact (5) |
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| "It is a ___ universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune...," opening line of "Pride and Prejudice" |
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| ___ or dare (teenager's game) |
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| State of being true (5) |
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| Verity has time with another lady (5) |
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| In all this it isn't lying (5) |
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| Veracity |
Mirror Classic |
20 Apr 2024 |
| PlusWord No 689 |
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| '___be told.. ' |
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| "___ be told . . ." |
USA Today |
29 Mar 2024 |
| The first casualty of war, supposedly (5) |
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| "___ or dare?" (party game) |
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| According to Buddha, three things that cannot be long hidden are the sun, the moon, and the what? (5) |
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| Known facts |
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| Letter to a girl, in fact (5) |
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| Initially told girl gleaner the facts (5) |
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| "Agreed!" |
New York Times |
08 Feb 2024 |
| Fact: Hard to follow faith without slightest self-doubt (5) |
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| Honest statement that can be stretched and made dishonest |
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| A fact that has been verified (5) |
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| Sometimes it hurts |
New York Times Mini |
11 Jan 2024 |
| Veracity |
Mirror Classic |
02 Jan 2024 |
| "___ or Dare" (party game) |
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| Tell the __ (don't lie) |
Newsday |
22 Aug 2023 |
| It's a fact |
Newsday |
13 Aug 2023 |
| "___ or dare" (party game) |
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| Contents of some kernels |
Newsday |
27 May 2023 |
| 'Preach!' |
New York Times |
21 May 2023 |
| Actuality |
Newsday |
05 Apr 2023 |
| Veracity |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Feb 2023 |
| Dare alternative |
USA Today |
03 Feb 2023 |
| It's 'rarely pure and never simple,' per Oscar Wilde |
New York Times |
13 Nov 2022 |
| It’s “rarely pure and never simple,” per Oscar Wilde |
New York Times |
13 Nov 2022 |
| Veracity |
The Times Concise |
27 Oct 2022 |
| Abolitionist Sojourner |
USA Today |
03 Oct 2022 |
| Veracity |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Aug 2022 |
| Verified fact |
The Guardian Quick |
04 Jul 2022 |
| See 53-Across |
New York Times |
03 Jul 2022 |
| Objective fact |
Universal |
22 May 2022 |
| ___ or dare |
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| Veracity |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Nov 2021 |
| "To Tell the ___," American TV panel show whose longest host was Alex Trebek |
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| It's often hard to tell |
Universal |
12 Sep 2021 |
| It's 'rarely pure and never simple,' Oscar Wilde once wrote |
New York Times |
13 Aug 2021 |
| Word in a court oath |
LA Times Daily |
29 Jul 2021 |
| Word in a court oath |
The Washington Post |
29 Jul 2021 |
| ___ or dare? |
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| Veracity |
The Times Concise |
10 May 2021 |
| ___ or Dare, popular game played at 1a |
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| "___ Hurts," song by Lizzo which won the 2020 Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance |
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| This is reality: being ruthless to make time |
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| Dare alternative |
USA Today |
13 Aug 2020 |
| "___ Hurts," song by Lizzo that won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance in 2020 |
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| Straight dope |
Wall Street Journal |
23 May 2020 |
| 'The __ is out there': 'The X-Files' catchphrase |
The Washington Post |
25 Feb 2020 |
| "Tell all the ___ but tell it slant": Emily Dickinson |
The New Yorker |
03 Feb 2020 |
| It's therapeutic releasing a piece of honesty |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Nov 2019 |
| What's so smart about saving time? |
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| "____ or Dare" (party game) |
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| It may be stranger than fiction |
USA Today |
05 Feb 2019 |
| It may be stranger than fiction |
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| "An Inconvenient ___," 2006 documentary film about former US Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming |
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| Demand from a trial witness |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Oct 2018 |
| Verified fact |
Newsday |
24 Oct 2018 |
| Part 3 of today's quote |
Canadiana |
15 Oct 2018 |
| Consequences alternative? |
Universal |
25 Sep 2018 |
| ___ or dare (party game) |
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| Word that's considered an alternative to the last word of each theme phrase |
Jonesin |
03 Jul 2018 |
| Defamation defense |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Mar 2018 |
| Kind of serum |
Universal |
25 Jan 2018 |
| Kind of serum |
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| Consequences alternative? |
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| Demand from a trial witness |
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| "Dare" alternative, in a party game |
USA Today |
08 Nov 2017 |
| Belief accepted as correct |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Oct 2017 |
| It's factual |
Premier Sunday |
03 Sep 2017 |
| It's stranger than fiction |
Wall Street Journal |
20 May 2017 |
| Factual statement |
Newsday |
03 May 2017 |
| Honesty |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 May 2017 |
| The way it is |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Apr 2017 |
| ___ or Dare |
Universal |
05 Mar 2017 |
| It's what you tell the judge |
Universal |
27 Jan 2017 |
| Consequences alternative |
Universal |
03 Jan 2017 |
| Consequences alternative |
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| "Dare" alternative, in a party game |
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| Matter of fact? |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Nov 2016 |
| Verified fact |
USA Today |
12 Oct 2016 |
| Veracity |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Oct 2016 |
| Dare alternative |
Universal |
27 Feb 2016 |
| Sincerity, as a matter of fact |
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| Good thing to tell |
Family Time |
04 Oct 2015 |
| Firm fact |
Newsday |
21 Jul 2015 |
| Reality |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2015 |
| Cut the mustard without Muscadet? It's what actually happened! |
Irish Times Crosaire |
22 Apr 2015 |
| It's unvarnished |
USA Today |
31 Mar 2015 |
| What a saw often has |
New York Times |
21 Mar 2015 |
| Tell it to the judge |
New York Times |
07 Jan 2015 |
| What a saw often has |
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| Madonna's "___ or Dare" |
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| Firm fact |
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| Tell it to the judge |
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| It's unvarnished |
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| "Veritas" |
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| Reality |
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| Time woman accepted reality? |
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| The first 6 of the 26 are known facts |
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| Verified fact |
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| Something verified |
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| It may be naked, plain, or awful |
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| Babe follows the frst gospel |
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| Liar's undoing |
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| Firm fact |
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| Sometimes it hurts |
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| Neil Young "___ Be Known" |
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| What some seekers seek |
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| It's a fact |
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| Its "final test" is ridicule, per Mencken |
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| "Ain't I a Woman?" deliverer Sojourner |
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| Dare alternative |
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| Actuality |
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| Honest Seether song? |
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| Liar's undoing |
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| "The ___ is out there" (catchphrase on "The X-Files") |
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| Liar's undoing |
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| It may be unvarnished |
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| Beauty, to Keats |
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| Dare alternative, in a party game |
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| What some serum elicits? |
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| Beauty, to Keats |
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| What some serum elicits? |
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| Not a lie |
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| It's stranger than fiction |
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| Matter of fact? |
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| "Ain't I a Woman?" deliverer Sojourner |
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| Ministry of ___, in "1984" |
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| Subject of some philosophical inquiry |
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| "Ain't it the ___?!" |
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| Abolitionist Sojourner |
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| It's a fact |
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| Actuality |
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| With 16-Down, quiz show hosted by Ralph Edwards |
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| Lie detector determination, in theory |
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| Straight dope |
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| Straight dope |
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| Fact |
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| Abolitionist Sojourner |
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| It's a fact |
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| Sojourner ___ (women's-rights activist who asked "Ain't I a woman?" in a famous 1851 speech) |
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| It's no lie |
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| It may be unvarnished |
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| It's beauty, according to Keats |
|
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| "To Tell the ___" |
|
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| Dare alternative in a party game |
|
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| Matter of fact? |
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| Madonna's "____ or Dare" |
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| What really happened |
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| Kind of serum |
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| Consequences alternative |
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| Veracity |
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| It's stranger than fiction |
|
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| Kind of serum |
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| Gospel |
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| Sometimes it hurts |
|
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| Abolitionist Sojourner |
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| It's unvarnished |
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| Verity |
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| Firm fact |
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| Consequencesalternative |
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| Factual basis |
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| Veridicality |
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| Accuracy |
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| Verity |
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| Consequences' partner |
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| Sometimes it hurts |
|
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| Abolitionist Sojourner ___ |
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| Consequence's alternative |
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| This sometimes hurts |
|
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| Veracity |
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| See 6 Down |
|
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| White chrysanthemum |
|
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| Actuality |
|
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| "The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man." |
|
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| Keats' definition of beauty. |
|
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| Beauty, to Keats. |
|
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| Philosopher's quest. |
|
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| Poet's "beauty." |
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| "___, the Invincible."—Bryant. |
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| Keats' synonym for beauty. |
|
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| Fiction's vis-à-vis. |
|
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| "I'm not frontin'" |
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| Straight dope |
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| Veritas. |
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| Established principle. |
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| Pilate's question, "What is ___?" |
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| Integrity. |
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| "You're singing my tune" |
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| Of a ___ (certainly). |
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| Genuineness. |
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