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Crossword Answer:
↓28. NEEDY
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Clue & Answer Definitions
- DOWN-AND-OUT (noun)
- a person who is destitute
- DOWN-AND-OUT (adjective)
- lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)
- DOWN (noun)
- English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
- soft fine feathers
- DOWN (adjective)
- understood perfectly
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- DOWN (adverb)
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- DOWN (verb)
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- cause to come or go down
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