Answer: PIRATING
The answer PIRATING has 9 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Sanctimonious seaman stealing
- Using without paying royalties, say
- Copying illegally, as software
- Sailor tails gumshoe running off illicitly
- Very good sailor? Not if he's doing this!
- Virtuous sailor wouldn't do this
- Purportedly good sailor bootlegging
- Religious sailor's evil acts at sea
- Hardly the occupation of Holy Jack?
Last seen in:
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- Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate - Sep 7 2016
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- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 23,244 - Sep 10 2004