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Catches Up With Crossword Clue

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99%9Exact Match!
verb

• catch up with and possibly overtake

• travel past

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

36%7Catches up
verb

• become of; happen to

• happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance

28%8Catches up in a tangle
verb

• entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh

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New York Times12 Jun 1980 Down 33
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