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• Menial cop turns into officer
• Has a job investigating flower with parasitic insects and half of those in 1 across
• Olivia Benson's profession
• Ticket distributor
• Protector of the peace
• Catch officer
• Baton carrier on his beat
• ___-out (poor excuse)
• Purchase, informally
• Cop — male cop in complex
• Acquire, informally
• 'But you say it in a tweet, that's a ___-out' (Swift lyric)
• "Beverly Hills —"
• Admit, with "to"
• Extra in a procedural