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or just rely on blind chance:
 
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LOTTERY
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POTTER
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 TEAPOT
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 Oops.  Back up, there - we should be continuing from UTTERLY ((probably below your screen when you went PLOTTER to POTTER,Luke)
 
 UTTERLY
 
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 TURTLE
 
 
 
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T > C
 
 TOECAP
 
 
 Okey dokey.  Teapot became toecap, probably for same reason.
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S > C
 
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CURABLE
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RUBELLA
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BLURRED
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 ..the die was cast, but then had to be cast again, so to speak..it wouldn't play by its initial rules? Some things don't fit the mold
 
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 ..Charybdis & Scylla had a certain attraction, but Ligeia & Leucopia were more compelling
 
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BURLED
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...A.K.A. I'm not sure I believe you, and again I'm not sure I believe you
 
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OBDURATE
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...can't hear OBDURATE without thinking of Koko and Tit-Willow :-)___________________
 
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 OPERATOR
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OVERRATE
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OBSERVED
 B  ----  >  L
 
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ORDERED
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 ..I'd point out that you dealt not with the L, Luke..but I don't want to be a
 
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