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1 a leotard 6x
2 Braille 4x
3 Tobacco Road 3x
4 the guillotine 3x
5 the Amish 3x
6 souvenir 3x
7 palace 3x
8 pachyderm 3x
9 nicotine 3x
10 ketchup 3x
11 Diesel 3x
12 corpulent 3x
13 chauvinism 3x
14 blood 3x
15 Australia 3x
16 an easel 3x
17 alphabet 3x
18 a loupe 3x
19 the tongue 3x
20 white 3x
21 Vaudeville 2x
22 toast 2x
23 the stomach 2x
24 the pancreas 2x
25 the eye 2x
26 ten 2x
27 tea 2x
28 syntax 2x
29 soccer 2x
30 sleep 2x
31 skis 2x
32 Sister 2x
33 shillelagh 2x
34 shiatsu 2x
35 sesame 2x
36 seltzer 2x
37 secretary 2x
38 scald 2x
39 sassy 2x
40 Sandwich 2x
41 salt 2x
42 Salmonella 2x
43 ritzy 2x
44 regatta 2x
45 red 2x
46 purgatory 2x
47 Ponzi 2x
48 Pompadour 2x
49 platonic 2x
50 Plaster of Paris 2x

Sample Clues

A French aerialist gave us this name for a tight-fitting one-piece worn today by everyone from dancers to pro wrestlers
a leotard
A "W" was added to his raised letter alphabet so that it could be used in English
Braille
A phrase for a poverty-stricken rural community is derived from this title of an Erskine Caldwell novel
Tobacco Road
The guy for whom this device was named said of it, "I can whisk off your head in a twinkling" & you won't feel it
the guillotine
Beard trimming was a pet peeve of Jakob, the Mennonite leader for whom this religious group is named
the Amish
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