Here are the possible solutions for affixes one's john hancock to clue
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inks
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Affixes one's John Hancock to
Puts one's John Hancock on
Puts down one's John Hancock
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INK, to colour with ink
magnacarta
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Where King John put his John Hancock
colony
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Each circled pair is an abbreviation for one; all 13 are arranged in the roughly north-to-south order in which their representatives (except for John Hancock) signed the Declaration of Independence