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- Towards the end, decreased bureaucracy? Just the opposite
- Band's left-winger became less significant
- Dispensed with red tape — came to the point
- Like sports games and musical works
- Nicked, as arranged
- Got less to draw on before the beginning of December
- Got less exercise and maybe rated about it
- Made runs
- Wrote 1 Down and scratched
- 20 Down initially got scratched
- Got to the point -- summed up without a word of hesitation
- Gradually narrowing
- Gradually diminished
- Formality rigid (as you might say!) diminished gradually
- Irishman turned up before last of band and whittled away