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• ___ a rule (usually)

• ___ bonus

• ___ courtesy

• ___ favor

• ___ favor to me

• ___ formality

• ___ friend

• ___ friend, I...

• ___ given

• ___ karate expert, I will not...

• ___ last resort

• ___ Man Thinketh

• ___ matter of fact

• ___ matter of fact...: 2 wds.

• ___ precaution

• ___ result

• ___ rule

• ___ rule (commonly)

• ___ rule (generally)

• ___ rule (most of the time)

• ___ rule (normally)

• ___ rule (ordinarily)

• ___ the rule (normally)

• ___ whole

• ___ Yoelson, a.k.a. Al Jolson

• ___rule: usually

• -- matter of course

• --- youth, I...

• ... ___ heads up!

• ... lovely ___ tree

• 19th-century botanist Gray

• A king of Judah

• Al Jolson, really

• Al Jolson's birth name

• Al Jolson's real first name

• And ___ did that which was right... (1Kings 15:11)

• And I'm gonna be high ___ kite by then (Rocket Man)

• And now it's solid, solid ___ rock (Ashford & Simpson lyric)

• Arkansas congressman Hutchinson

• Beatles song Free ___ Bird

• Big ___ house

• Big - house connection

• Big -- whale

• Big-house connector

• Big-house insert

• Big-house link

• Big-whale connection

• Bjork's Venus ___ Boy

• Blind ___ bat

• Botanist Gray

• Botanist Gray, co-author of Flora of North America

• Brave -- lion

• Brought

• Busy ___ bee

• Candler of Coca-Cola

• Candler or Gray

• Center of a comparison

• Center of a simile

• Charles Darwin contemporary Gray

• Civil-rights leader ___ Philip Randolph

• Clean ___ whistle

• Clean-whistle connection

• Clean-whistle link

• Clear -- bell

• Coca-Cola businessman Candler

• Coca-Cola creator Candler

• Coca-Cola founder Candler

• Coca-Cola's Candler

• Coke founder Candler

• Comparative phrase

• Comparative words

• Comparing pair

• Comparison center

• Comparison component

• Comparison connector

• Comparison part

• Comparison phrase

• Comparison words

• Comparison's middle

• Congressman Hutchinson

• Cool ___ cucumber

• Cool - cucumber link

• Cool-cucumber connection

• Crazy ___ loon

• Cross-bear connection

• Cross-bear filler

• Cute ___ button

• Cute-bug connector

• Cute-button bridge

• Cute-button link

• DEA director Hutchinson

• Deep ___ well

• Drunk ___ skunk

• Drunk-skunk connection

• Drunk-skunk filler?

• Drunk-skunk link

• Dry ___ bone

• Dry ___ bone (example of a figure of speech called a simile): 2 wds.

• Dry-bone link

• Dumb ___ post

• Dumb ___ tree (Chaucer)

• End ___ Man: Willingham

• Entomologist Fitch

• Fat -- pig

• Fat-pig filler?

• Father of American Botany Gray

• Film box letters

• Film no.

• Film speed letters

• Film speed no.

• First name in Arkansas politics

• First name of Arkansas' only Republican congressman

• Fit ___ fiddle

• Fit fiddle link

• Fit-fiddle connector

• Fit-fiddle filler

• Flat ___ pancake

• Flat ___ pancake: 2 wds.

• Flat-pancake filler

• Former Arkansas representative Hutchinson

• Former DEA chief Hutchinson

• Free ___ bird

• Free ___ Bird (Beatles hit)

• Free-bird bridge

• Free-bird filler

• Free-bird insert

• Free-bird link

• Fresh ___ daisy

• Fresh-daisy connection

• Fresh-daisy link

• Gay-window link

• Gentle ___ lamb

• Gentle ___ lamb: 2 wds.

• Gentle-lamb connection

• Gentle-lamb link

• Godly king of Judah (I Kings 15:9-11)

• Gray of Gray's Manual

• Gray of Gray's Manual of Botany

• Gray or Candler

• Hall of Fame botanist

• Happy

• Happy ___ clam

• Happy ___ clam: 2 wds.

• Happy ___ lark

• Happy ___ pig in slop

• Happy-clam connection

• Happy-clam link

• Happy-lark filler

• Happy-lark go-between

• Hard

• Hard ___ rock

• Hard rock connection?

• Hard-rock center

• Hard-rock connector

• Hard-rock filler

• Hard-rock link

• Hard-rock middle

• Hard/rock insert

• Harvard botanist Gray

• He met Asian in passing

• He's a peasant, at heart

• Healthy-horse connection

• Healthy-horse link

• Heart of a simile

• Hebrew for healer

• High

• High ___ helicopter

• High ___ kite

• High-kite connection

• High-kite link

• High/kite center

• Hot ___ firecracker

• Hungry ___ bear

• Hungry bear filler?

• Hungry-bear center

• Hungry-bear connection

• Hutchinson of Arkansas

• Hutchinson of the Department of Homeland Security

• Hutchinson of the DHS

• Hutchinson or Gray

• I started out ___ child (Cosby)

• I wandered lonely ---...

• Idolatry foe in I Kings

• Impeachment trial prosecutor Hutchinson

• Implied part of ESL

• Jehoshaphat's father

• Jehoshaphat's predecessor

• Jehoshaphat's sire

• Jethro Tull album Thick ___ Brick

• Jethro Tull's Thick ___ Brick

• Jolson's first first name

• Jolson's given first name

• Jolson's real first name

• Jolson's real name

• King in I Kings

• King of Judah

• King of Judah (1King 15:9)

• King of Judah for 41 years

• Lehigh University founder ___ Packer

• Letters on a Kodak box

• Light ___ feather

• Light ___ feather: 2 wds.

• Light-feather filler?

• Light-feather link

• Lonely-cloud link

• Longtime One Life to Live patriarch Buchanan

• Loose ___ goose

• Loose - goose link

• Loose-goose connection

• Mad ___ hatter

• Mad-hatter connection

• Mad-hatter link

• Mad-wet hen link

• Matter of fact introduction?

• Meek-lamb filler

• Merle Haggard's Solid ___ Rock

• Middle of a simile

• Modest Mouse's I Came ___ Rat

• My Life ___ Dog

• My Life ___ Dog (1985)

• My Life ___ Dog (1996 film)

• My Life ___ Dog (book supposedly written by Moose)

• Naked ___ jaybird

• Naked-jaybird connection

• Naked-jaybird link

• Naked-jaybird middle

• Neat ___ pin

• Not ___ Stranger

• Nutty ___ fruitcake

• Nutty ___ fruitcake: 2 wds.

• Nutty - fruitcake middle

• Nutty fruitcake center

• Nutty-fruitcake connector

• One Life to Live character Buchanan who's been divorced 10 times

• Org. that established film-speed rating numbers in 1947

• Pale -- ghost

• Palindromic Bible name

• Palindromic Biblical king

• Palindromic first name of Arkansas G.O.P. Congressman

• Palindromic guy

• Palindromic man's name

• Palindromic name

• Philanthropist Candler

• Playboy columnist Baber

• Poor ___ church mouse

• Pretty ___ picture

• Pretty-picture center

• Pretty-picture filler

• Pretty-picture linkage

• Proud ___ peacock

• Proud / peacock connector

• Proud-peacock connector