Cook Strangling Duck A Thug Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa
	41%	6		Old cook, we hear, strangling manky turkeys though not unknown in 17 19 down
	noun • an informal form of address for a man • a robust child • a person who breaks horses • a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something • a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
	31%	5		Partially cook and then cook again
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