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noun • A person who makes quips; a joker | ||||||||
39% | 7 | English racing driver Piquet | ||||||
noun • (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391) • Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846) • the pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585) • the Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417) • the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085) • (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604) | ||||||||
39% | 7 | Played with a Piquet deck | ||||||
noun • A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. • A stake driven into the ground. • A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. • A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls. • One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function. • (sometimes figurative) A sentry. • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself. • The card game piquet. verb • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment. • To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. • To tether to, or as if to, a picket. • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. • To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. | ||||||||
Joker And King Involved With Piquet Spades Crossword Clue
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QUIPSTER which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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QUIPSTER
Updated: October 14, 2023
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