| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Poverty, so to speak | 4 letters | rags |
| ||
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- Old piano tunes
- Janitor's supply
- Tramp's attire
- Criticizes, with "on"
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- Glad ......
- Unprosperous time, metaph
- No fancy threads
- Teases mercilessly
- Castaway's clothing
- Wear that's worn
- Tatters
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- Maid's supply
- Car wash gear
- Maids
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- Cinderella's wear, at hom
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- Syncopated songs
- Lively piano tunes
- Beggar's duds
- Scraps of cloth
- Old shabby clothing
- Tattered clothes
- uses for old t-shirts
- Dustcloths
- "... to Riches," Bennett hit
- bootstrapper's origins
- symbolic success story starter
- Makeshift car cleaners
- Cleaning cloths
- Poverty, metaphorically
- what towels might become
- cloths in a mechanic's shop
- tawdry tabloids
- Tattered, old clothes
- garb for many a dickens waif
- dusters
- tattered cloths
- Some cleaning items
- saying, from ... to riches
- Worn-out pieces of fabric
- Car wash cloths
- poverty exemplars
- Worthless cleaners
- Half a poverty-to-wealth metaphor
- ...-to-riches story
- From .... to riches
- Dusting cloths
- Kiosk purchases: slang
- Cloth scraps
- Counterpart of riches
- Old cloths
- Horatio Alger starting point
- Maid's aids
- "State of poverty, metaphorically"
- "Unprosperous time, metaphorically"
- "Cinderella's wear, at home"
- Shabby clothing
- Sign of destitution
- Clothing, colloquially
- Cleaner's supply
- Threadbare threads
- Lively piano pieces
- Maids' supplies
- Start of an Alger story?
- *Destitution
- Extreme poverty
- Riches' opposite
- Dingy duds
- Tatterdemallon's attire
- Beginning of an Alger title
- some recycled t-shirts
- old dance hall tunes
- Teases
- Alger starting points
- Symbol of poverty
- Threadbare clothing
- Joshes
- They are sometimes glad
- Shipment to a paper mill
- Riches' predecessor
- Riches' beginning
- Tattered clothing
- Tattered Tom's raiment
- First step to riches?
- Antipode of riches
- Attire for Tattered Tom
- Paper-mill intake
- Riches' antitheses
- Sometime forerunner to riches
- Plays like Alexander's band
- Mendicant's garb
- Car-washers' aids
- Poverty symbol
- ... to riches (inspiring type of tale)
- scott joplin tunes
- Baby Blankets, Often, By High School
- Old clothes
- Waste cloths
- Opposite of riches
- counter cleaners
- maids' aids
- Dust collectors
- torn clothing
- They Wipe Up Stains In Garages
- Frayed pieces of fabric
- Cloths for spills
- goads lead to scraps
- Clothes in tatters
- Torn clothes
- junky pubs
- pieces of cloth
- Old, dingy pieces of cloth
- Joplin pieces
- Alger's “before”
- Cleaning crew's supply
- Scott Joplin compositions
- Cloths for cleaning
- Remnants of clothing
- Riches origin?
- Dipstick wipers
- Scraps
- Threads in shreds
- scraps the college celebrations
- Teases bits of old cloth
- students' disorderly clothing?
- Extremely cheap cleaning cloths
- Tattered pieces of cloth
- Cloths used for dusting
- From ...... riches
- Mechanics' oily cloths
- Street urchin's clothing
- Many Scott Joplin compositions
- Tattered attire
- Old T-shirts maybe
- Hobo attire
- waste scraps of cloth
- Cleaner's cloths
- Musical compositions in tatters
- incessantly teases, with "on"
- starting point for riches
- Old gear, by Joplin
- Dusters for royal silver
- Cloths that used to be clothes
- Tiger in 1950s TV cartoons
- Auto shop cloths
- Starting point of riches?
- Clothes for king sag terribly
- poverty of tyneside journalist?
- Former T-shirts, perhaps
- Old torn material
- Duds
- teases due to tatty clothing
- Pauper's wear
- Urchin's clothes?
- Wear
- Wearing apparel
- Weed
- old pieces of cloth
- Repurposed T-shirts, maybe
- Tattered garb
- cleaning day needs
- Dust-Collecting Pieces Of Cloth
- Car washer's needs
- Old, torn, and worn-out clothing
- Tattered and torn pieces of cloth
- "Before" costume in some fairy tales
- Waste pieces of cloth
- Dishcloths
- Car wash supplies
- Auto-mechanic's supply
- Tattered clothing found in old attic
- Clothing that's worn
- university stunts in the papers?
- Garage cloths
- Tattered threads
- Car-washing items
- Worn-out clothes
- an embarrassment before riches?