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No problem with 16d being two words, being francais love the 12d word, what a beauty
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Was completely stumped on 1d & 3d a bit sneaky...but more like 12d pl.
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As I sit here 6a, playing a round of 8a on my 8d and having my 3rd dram of highlands 11a, I sense that I should 12d myself into 15a, perhaps 10a an 18a encounter with my 13a-complected 19a spouse.
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Its climate makes Ecoregion 12d an atypical part of the Snake River Plain, which is lower and drier over much of its extent in Idaho.
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Although Ecoregion 12d is similar in vegetation and climate to Jackson Hole on the east side of the Teton Range (Ecoregion 17n), it has a higher water table and its soil contains more moisture-holding loess.
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And, unlike Jackson Hole, much of Ecoregion 12d, with its more productive soil, has been converted to barley fields.
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Ecoregion 12e is lower and less rugged than Ecoregions 12d and 80b.
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Rangeland is widespread and contrasts with the cropland of Ecoregions 12d, 12e, and 12i.
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Despite this imposition, they were still able to afford the finest lace (5 shillings an inch – Honiton of course) embroidered on their tunics, at a time when the agricultural wage rate was 12d.
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Between 1631 and 1642 in the Great Liberty manor the number of alehouse-keepers who were fined 12d. for giving false measure varied between 100 in 1631 and 145 in 1633.
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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