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• Like the older Beethoven
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• Audibly challenged foreign agent casing area to north
• Like Tommy, in the rock opera
• Like most ASL signers
• Hard-hearted former pupil of the French judge
• Like the daughter in 2018's 'A Quiet Place'
• Aurally challenged
• Like Beethoven, mostly, when he composed "Symphony No. 9"
• Not able to hear fade-out?
• Like many sign language speakers
• ___ President Now (1988 Gallaudet University protest)
• What 49-Down became in later life
• Stubborn old boy expected to cross grass