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Novelist Holds Figure Up For Extermination Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is GENOCIDE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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99%8Exact Match!
noun

• systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

31%4 With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues?
noun

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

31%5Extermination target
noun

• a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead

• the butt of a marijuana cigarette

• street names for flunitrazepam

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• European freshwater food fish having a greenish back

verb

• comb (hair) into a roach

• cut the mane off (a horse)

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The Guardian Cryptic09 Mar 2006 Down 1
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