Manipulative one Crossword Clue

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Manipulative one Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically
2. a person who takes drugs

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MANIPULATIVE (adjective)
1. skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
ONE (adjective)
1. (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
2. having the indivisible character of a unit
ONE (noun)
1. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
2. a single person or thing

Hint 3: Anagram

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31. Clue cube

32. Cuba's Castro

33. Was humiliated

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36. Burglars’ takes

39. Contradict

41. Give in to wanderlust

42. Grub for grunts, briefly

43. Lash out at

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47. Parent, e.g.

50. “Your wedding team and everything in between” website

52. Composer of a symphony known as “The Palindrome”

53. “Girl almost twice my age” in a 1977 Neil Diamond song

54. Utterance before doing something daring

56. Brooklyn-to-Bronx dir.

57. Short piano piece

58. Figured (out)

60. Bluer than blue

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63. Decline

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88. Condemned to the scrap yard

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