Hard To Fathom Why Corruption Engulfed Good Man And King Crossword Clue

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	adjective satellite • difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
	55%	7		Vintage song that asks 'Why, why, why Delilah?'
	noun • (Old Testament) the Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength • a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
	43%	9		Government ending in ruin, engulfed by corruption and acrimony
	noun • extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) • extreme hostility

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	Clue	Source
1	First to last, benefit in backing police is hard to fathom The Guardian Cryptic - 04 Jan 2017	The Guardian Cryptic / 04 Jan 2017
2	Government ending in ruin, engulfed by corruption and acrimony The Guardian Everyman - 04 Nov 2018	The Guardian Everyman / 04 Nov 2018
3	Hard to fathom New York Times - 06 Oct 1998	New York Times / 06 Oct 1998
4	Known for his quote 'Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.'
5	Monstrously stab king, and profit? It's hard to fathom The Guardian Cryptic - 08 Nov 2016	The Guardian Cryptic / 08 Nov 2016
6	Roman who said "After I'm dead I'd rather people ask why I have no monument than why I have one" New York Times - 08 Sep 2021	New York Times / 08 Sep 2021
7	Vintage song that asks 'Why, why, why Delilah?'

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Busts are being developed beyond comprehension

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