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Certain Backwater Crossword Clue

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noun

• a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)

33%10 Backwoods or backwater
noun

• a remote and undeveloped area

33%9 A backwater or remote location
adjective satellite

• small and remote and insignificant

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New York Times22 May 2003 Across 59
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