Try To Hit As A Housefly Crossword Clue

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	99%	4		Exact Match!
	noun • a sharp blow verb • hit swiftly with a violent blow • to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location
	31%	8		Mosquito or housefly, e.g.
	noun • insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
	31%	4		Number of eyes on a typical housefly
	noun • the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one • a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips adjective satellite • being one more than three

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New York Times09 May 2005	Down 34
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