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• Work well, as kitchen towels
• Suck up
• Too much ink
• What paper towels do
• Sop up
• Bad mark on one's reputation
• Take in, as knowledge
• Act like a sponge
• Rorschach "image"
• Work like paper towels
• Rorschach figure
• Record spoiler
• Totally involve
• Dry with a paper towel
• Apply tissue to fresh lipstick, perhaps