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Screw Up For One Brief Second In R Run Crossword Clue

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verb

• manage badly or incompetently

36%5Screw that's not begun to screw?
adjective

• marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact

adjective satellite

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

verb

• claim as due or just

• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

35%11 Type of screw hole used with a countersunk screw
noun

• a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface

• a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole

verb

• insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)

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