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noun • a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | ||||||||
| 42% | 15 | Commonly associated with the phrase 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery' | ||||||
noun • fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist | ||||||||
| 29% | 4 | Pounds paid for property, perhaps | ||||||
noun • a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service • an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart • the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions • the act of rending or ripping or splitting something verb • let for money • grant use or occupation of under a term of contract • engage for service under a term of contract • hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | ||||||||
Paid Pounds For Something At Auction Crossword Clue
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GAVEL which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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GAVEL
Updated: October 14, 2023
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