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Old Lecturer Enters Competition With Authority Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• an authoritative person who divines the future

• a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible

• a shrine where an oracular god is consulted

29%10 Irrelevant competition European enters, trailing this writer's mum
adjective

• of no importance or relevance especially to a law case

• without material form or substance

• not consisting of matter

adjective satellite

• not pertinent to the matter under consideration

• (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other

28%9 Someone who enters a competition
noun

• someone who yields to the will of another person or force

• someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others

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