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We've checked our database and believe the answer is DISTEND which was last seen in the Telegraph Cryptic crossword.
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99%7Exact Match!
verb

• become wider

• cause to expand as if by internal pressure

• swell from or as if from internal pressure

29%9Liable to get injured
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28%3Stretch the truth or stretch out
noun

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

• position or manner in which something is situated

verb

• be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

• be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position

• originate (in)

• be and remain in a particular state or condition

• tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

• have a place in relation to something else

• assume a reclining position

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Telegraph Cryptic28 Mar 2024 Across 23
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