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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (65 Across) toady (NOUN) An obsequious flatterer; a fawning, servile person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage. Synonyms: crawler, lackey, parasite, sycophant. (VERB) Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering. Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, truckle. [Derived from toadeater, an assistant to a charlatan who ate, or pretended to eat toads to show the efficacy of a patent medicine.]
Did You Know? (7 Down) The Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas, are a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. In geologic terms, the group of islands are connected to Argentina by a submarine plateau. Out of a group of hundreds of islands that make up the Falklands, there are only two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, with the capital city of Stanley, (or Port Stanley) being located on East Falkland. The East Falkland island is also home to the majority of the population of the entire Falkland Islands group.
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