Here are the possible solutions for they have legal life of 17 years clue
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Relevancy
patents
Clue
They have legal life of 17 years.
Definition
PATENT, to obtain a patent (a government grant protecting the rights of an inventor) on
ages
Clue
Years and years and years
Definition
AGE, to grow old
eon
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Years and years and years
Definition
a long period of time, also AEON
eons
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Years and years and years
Definition
EON, a long period of time, also AEON
newt
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Gingrich who said "females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength"
Definition
a tailed amphibian of the salamander family, also EWT
oslo
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City I visited after I was runner-up for the Nobel Prize in literature; they'll realize I should have won in ten years
lend
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Give someone a book that they'll "give back to you when they're done reading," as I did with "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" over three years ago
Definition
to give for a time only
rhett
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"Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief" speaker
