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• Having been fired, he might make it supple
• How one gets all lit up with a gin-and-it with the editor
• One's been fired
• How one got fired
• Could you get any response from this?
• 25 down and any more ought to provoke some response
• Might one deign to have alighted around it?
• After half a century it is in flames
• How one lit on editing
• Awoke to the fact that the broken oar had been employed
• Made light of it
• I'd get about a tinge of the start of 9 across
• Dieting, but make light of it
• A diet of gin will get one fired
• In 6 down it would get any in response