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Dickens's titular friend (6)

Ross

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mutual

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(Other definitions for mutual that I've seen before include "Joint < commonly" , "Dickens novel 'Our . . . . . . Friend'" , "Shared by two or more people" , "Feeling for each towards the other" , "Given and returned" .)

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