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• 21 in cards
• 21 in two cards
• Bringing Down the House game
• Casino card game
• Casino game
• Casino game, and hint to the theme in last words of answers to starred clues
• Gambler's game, perhaps
• Game that is this puzzle's theme
• Game with hitting and busting
• General Pershing
• Great deal?
• It's a great deal in Vegas
• Its motto could be Best two kings!
• Nickname of Gen. John Pershing
• Nickname of Gen. Pershing
• Pershing sobriquet
• Something to play at a casino
• Theme of this puzzle
• Twenty-one
• Twenty-one, in Vegas
• Vegas card game
• Used for hitting people
• A card game in which the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the bank up to but not exceeding 21
• Tends to form dense thickets
• A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed (club-shaped) leaves
• A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle
1. амер. разг. дубинка
2. пиратский флаг, «чёрный Джек»
3. бот. дуб мерилендский (Quercus marilandica)
4. кувшин для пива
5. горн. сфалерит, цинковая обманка
6. карт. игра в очко
7. жжёный сахар (для подкрашивания спиртных напитков, кофе и т. п.)
2. {ʹblækdʒæk} v1) избивать дубинкой
2) принуждать, заставлять