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Used To Be Crossword Clue

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99%4Exact Match!
noun

• a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

verb

• have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

• be identical to; be someone or something

• occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere

• have an existence, be extant

• happen, occur, take place

• be identical or equivalent to

• form or compose

• work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function

• represent, as of a character on stage

• spend or use time

• have life, be alive

• to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form

• be priced at

14%5 Thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon for “fire” due to its hollow stems used to blow air on embers, the tree Sambucus, with berries/flowers used for cordial, jam, pressé and wine
noun

• a person who is older than you are

• any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

• any of various church officers

adjective satellite

• used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son

14%8 Plant known as “medieval aspirin” or “bachelor’s-buttons” with flowers used for potpourri and leaves used as a folk remedy for headaches
noun

• bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum

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New York Times17 Jul 2005 Down 89
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