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Mother And Father In America Originally A Secretive Family Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is MAFIA which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

• any tightly knit group of trusted associates

• a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century

35%8A genetic theory proposing that offspring inherit characteristics not only from their mother and father but also from previous mates of the mother.
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35%9 The father of one's father or mother
noun

• Grandfather.

• Any male ancestor.

• Any of a number of methods of change-ringing on bells.

• (equestrian) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather

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The Guardian Cryptic28 Dec 2015 Across 6
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