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parasite

- Mooch
- Moocher
- maybe tick answer in usual spot
- Sponger in airborne unit's barracks, perhaps?
- Organism that lives off another
- a pirate's a leech
- Standard place in which you'll find a freeloader
- Dad right with a place for a sponger
- Traipse off holding a leech
- soldier with place for sponger
- 2019 movie whose criterion collection cover spells its title in morse code
- 2019 Korean black comedy film that won an Oscar for "Best Picture"
- soldier finds location of blood-sucker
- a sponger deserves praise at a different level
- soldier finds location of leech
- First foreign-language film to win Best Picture
- a strap that is to be given to the bludger
- you give thanks and praise to such a sponger?
- 2020 Best Picture
- a priest a sycophant converted
- where there are parties a hanger-on is sure to appear
- South Korean film, Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards
- South Korean film that won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bong Joon-ho
- he sponges on us for a trip to sea
- Bong Joon-ho film about a family that insinuates itself into a wealthy household
- Hanger-on where airborne soldiers may be billeted
- South Korean dark comedy thriller which won an award for the Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards
- Something that lives off of other things, such as a leech or a tapeworm
- Creature that feeds off its host, as a tapeworm
- Airborne troop starts to intercept the enemy drone
- Rap about a place for bloodsuckers
- Bloodsucker, sponger
- one that's not self-supporting in dilapidated pit areas
- One in a dependent relationship?
- Host's least favorite guest?
- 2019 film with a 'metaphorical' rock
- Hanger-on where jumping soldiers seen?
- Sounds like somewhere one could find jumpy characters - one living off the other
- Palme d'Or winner for Bong Joon-ho
- Bug a pirate's mobile?
- A fluke perhaps in HQ of the Red Devils?
- Pirate as poor becomes sponger
- Leech (informal)
- Organism living off another
- Mean a lot being one who thrives on (or off) another
- Possibly tick answer in usual spot
- Hanger-on in airborne soldiers' base?
- Organism that lives in or on another
- U-turn from host
- Flea, to a dog
- It's standard having a lot put on tick?
- One hanging on where falling soldier might be found
- Sounds like small army barracks has a reputation for exploiting people
- Sounds like the barracks has a reputation for exploiting people
- Drunken parties around area creating problem for host
- Special tea is after standard sponge
- Recruitment space online for soldiers has a reputation for exploiting others
- Pit areas disbanded by hanger-on
- Sycophant disguised as pirate
- Organism that lives on another
- Disguised pirate as leech
- Flea, perhaps -- where might you find one trained to jump?
- Host's bane
- Soldiers' landing-place that needs a host
- Jumper's place for louse, say
- Host's annoyance
- Dog flea, e.g.
- One who takes something and gives nothing
- Host's counterpart
- Leech or tapeworm, e.g.
- What a host holds
- Tick or flea, e.g.
- Opposite of a host
- User
- Host's counterpart in a symbiotic relationship
- Aphid or flea
- Orchid, for example.
- The mistletoe, for instance.
- Mistletoe is one.
- Flea.
- Toady
- Leech
- Sponger
- Freeloader
- Sycophant
- Sponge
- Hanger-on
- Bloodsucker
- Soldier has location for drone?
- 2019 Oscar-winning South Korean thriller that's one of the highest-grossing independent movies
- Symbiotic organism that harms its host
- Aggrieved parties getting hold of a scrounger

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persevere

- Soldier on maneuvers ever trailing as such
- Rivet in trial carrying on
- Carry on being strict on representative from the east
- keep on trying always among awkward peers
- Keep on trying
- Soldier on exercises hard to endure
- Carry on as salesman, coming back hard
- one who gives in easily won't manage to do this
- go on a brief river excursion at the front
- Soldier on exercise about taking part
- keep on striving
- "Keep on keeping on"
- Go on exercise with engineers taking part
- Carry on regardless
- Soldier on a plain
- Soldier on exercises with regiment is very intense
- Hang on in there
- Soldier on exercises runs hard
- Soldier on a grave
- Soldier on
- Soldier on exercises with regiment is dreadful
- Soldier on right cut, breaking sword, losing tip
- PUSH on
- Carry on
- Hang in there
- 'Hang on'
- continue exercise about to eat chop
- Keep your nose to the grindstone!
- continue for every grave
- Continue against the odds
- Keep making an effort to somehow preserve direction
- show steady effort
- be determined to cut into dancing peer
- Continue steadfastly
- Continue despite difficulties
- Continue through Spain, getting cut off before that
- Serve peer (anag.)
- Steadfastly continue
- Don't give up, for each difficult
- Continue exercise with runs getting tough
- Continue with the course and serve Peer crumble
- See through to the end
- Gut it out
- Keep working hard
- "Keep trying!"
- "Be persistent!"
- Keep going
- Continue.
- Don't give up
- Keep at it
- Carry through
- Stick it out
- Persist.
- Some campers ever enthusiastic continue steadfastly
- keep at it, though most of it is harsh

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demoralise

- corrupt said to be in ruin
- Pervert said to be in ruin
- Discourage passing having taken exam
- Dishearten with exam in end
- said in passing to be corrupt
- Make downhearted
- Dishearten loser I made drunk
- Dishearten
- Dispirit

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discredited

- Damaged the reputation of
- Damaged reputationally
- corrupt said to be in ruin
- Decides dirt being dished should be denigrated

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straddle

- To sit or stand with one leg on either side of something
- Getting stand with legs well spaced, led off with violin
- go across street — basic reason for mix-up
- Separate legs, taking seat across sides of tractor
- Stand astride
- Go across step half missing on rickety ladder
- Stand across
- Go across street with right turn
- Get across half of tree amidst lumber
- pair surmounting obstacle to form band
- Ride astride
- Position legs over edges of tear in seat
- Put one foot on either side of
- Sit on a horse
- Lumber covers frame on Tower Bridge
- sit on, as a motorcycle
- have one leg each side of
- Sit as on a horse
- Not take a stance on
- Led darts (anag)
- Extend over a certain area
- Be situated on both sides of
- Be astride
- Sit astride
- One who's on the fence
- Lie on both sides of
- Sit astride of
- Bestride
- Take both sides?
- Gymnastic exercise with a leg on either side of parallel bars
- Sit on, as a horse
- Trade LSD freely to favour both sides
- Sit on the fence with fiddle, led astray?
- What fence-sitters do?
- Favor both sides
- Fence-sit
- Favor both sides of an issue
- Fence-sitter's position
- Not choose one side or the other
- Not pick sides?
- Sit astride (a horse)
- Mugwump's stance
- Be noncommital on an issue
- Hedge on an issue
- Play both sides
- Sit on the fence
- Be noncommittal on an issue
- Hedge: Colloq.
- Appear to take both sides of (an issue).
- Equivocal position: Colloq.
- Refuse to commit oneself: Colloq.
- Appear to favor both sides: Colloq.
- Appear to favor both sides of: Colloq.
- Extend over
- Mount

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persuasion

- novel point of view
- Jane Austen novel whose central character is Anne Elliot
- Austen novel following Anne Elliot's romantic fortunes
- Jane Austen's last novel
- Last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, published in 1817 which revolves around a young Englishwoman, Anne Elliot
- Piano users (anag) — novel by 14
- Novel kind of inducement
- Posthumous novel by 48 Across
- Jane Austen novel
- Jane Austen's last completed novel
- '...... happens when someone is convinced'
- A particular religious belief.
- Inducement
- Religious belief
- Arm-twisting