It Bollixes Up The Machinery

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone • fortitude and determination verb • cover with a grit • clench together
	20%	3		Piece of machinery
	noun • a subordinate who performs an important but routine function • tooth on the rim of gear wheel verb • roll steel ingots • join pieces of wood with cogs
	20%	8		Part of the machinery for getting engaged?
	noun • a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

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New York Times22 Feb 1998	Across 64
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