Mordancy Nicely Defining One Of Her Characteristics Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • someone who is critical of the motives of others • a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control
	50%	11		Creator of the character Nicely-Nicely Johnson
	noun • United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946)
	46%	12		Mordancy
	noun • The property of being poisonous or envenomed; or of having a venom-producing gland.

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The Guardian Cryptic07 Mar 2012	Across 11
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