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Cosmetic Problem Crossword Clue

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noun

• slanderous defamation

• a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope

• a blemish made by dirt

• an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

verb

• stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance

• make a smudge on; soil by smudging

• cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

• charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

28%13 A pattern in which the solution to a problem creates another problem, leading back to the original problem
noun

• one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

• an argument that assumes that which is to be proved

20%15 Method in complexity theory to show that a problem is at least as hard as another problem
noun

• changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal)

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New York Times10 Apr 2014 Across 38
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