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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1940
Page
7
A jumble of crossword entries and stray terms listing many clues and fragments. It reads like a garbled puzzle page with numbers and partial phrases such as plant juice order, amass and conceal, spawn of fish, Egyptian god, antlered animal, and various others across multiple lines.
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