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This Situation Starts To Seem Naughty And Frankly Untoward Crossword Clue

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99%5Exact Match!
noun

• an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up

adjective satellite

• snarled or stalled in complete confusion

verb

• cause to be in a state of complete confusion

33%4Untoward?
preposition

• Used to indicate source or provenance.

• Originating at (a year, time, etc.)

• Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.

• Indicating removal or separation.

• Indicating exclusion.

• Indicating differentiation.

• Produced with or out of (a substance or material).

• Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.

33%10 Saw, on reflection, nothing untoward in capital
noun

• the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791

• a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific with capital Olympia

• the federal government of the United States

• 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

• United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)

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