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• Carpenter's tool for a pair
• A pair as of game birds
• Foundation or support, or a main principle
• Support or hold steady
• Foundation of a theory or process
• Principle on which a theory is founded
• Underlying support for a theory
• If your little sister has her degree, that gives her something to build on
• Does this give strength to both of them?
• The 24 across way to get one into a fish
• A degree gives a foundation to one's little relative
• A bit more and one might make the whole of it, by the sound of it
• That's make it fast and go fast at last
• Does your little sister get a degree for the foundation?
• Pare the sound of the half of what might be 11 across