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• Precise US quantity of liquid - short measure in beer?
• What doors should do is obvious
• Landed before time - by a novice, true
• Obvious contradiction
• What a shop is by turns, as is obvious
• In US, measure a length without distortion
• Misprint in US volume, and a shorter version of it
• Misprint ('all rite', possibly?)
• Lacking imagination, a character fault?
• Unimaginative politician wants tons for book
• Misprint that's relating to the shore, we're told
• Word for word misprint
• Not figurative
• Exact lines retaining appeal over long period
• Misprint in a line added to American volume