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noun • an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge adjective satellite • showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | ||||||||
| 33% | 6 | Hired detective | ||||||
noun • someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | ||||||||
| 23% | 11 | Named after a puzzle in the journal L'Intermédiaire des mathématiciens by the French amateur mathematician Gaston Tarry. | ||||||
noun • a square matrix of n rows and columns; cells contain n different symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column | ||||||||
Amateur Detective Hired By French Relative Crossword Clue
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DILETTANTE which was last seen in the The Guardian Quiptic crossword.
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DILETTANTE
Updated: October 15, 2023
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