Cable Screwed Post Office Over Which May Humour Some Deluded People Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug • (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
	36%	11		Without a sense of humour
	adverb • in a humorless manner
	36%	6		Author of 'Every Man in His Humour'
	noun • English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)

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The Guardian Cryptic30 May 2014	Down 5
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