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noun • (American football) the person who plays tailback • (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage | ||||||||
| 41% | 9 | The way in which a story is told or the sequence of events in a story | ||||||
noun • a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program adjective satellite • consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | ||||||||
| 31% | 10 | Story told through letters | ||||||
adjective satellite • written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | ||||||||
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TAILBACK which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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TAILBACK
Updated: October 14, 2023
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