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Answer for the clue "Worthless person, erstwhile Prime Minister, shows zest ", 10 letters:
lemon peel

Word definitions for lemon peel in dictionaries

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n. the rind of a lemon [syn: lemon rind ]

Usage examples of lemon peel.

When he went too far, he sometimes got a box on the ear, and the Turks threw lemon peel and rotten tomatoes at him, but this did not stop Barba Jannis from letting his tongue work on.

They couldn't tolerate the sugars in beer or wine, or the congeners in whiskey, but chilled vodka seemed to do very nicely for them, if it wasn't mucked up with vermouth or lemon peel.

Candied lemon peel may be prepared by boiling the peel in syrup and then exposing it to the air until the sugar is crystallized.

She cut a sliver of lemon peel, twisted it onto the ice cubes, took a tentative sip.

Using lemon peel rather than juice was customary in the part of Indochina where Catlin had once worked.

Half an hour later, the chicken lay in its pan, stuffed and basted, surrounded by crusbedgarlic, sprigs of rosemary, and curls of lemon peel.

A roast sirloin of beef has been surrounded with honey-glazed onions and decorated with swirls of candied lemon peel, and the big platter is due to be moved to the dining room and make room at the table for the next dishes.

In folding back the blanket, the breeze revealed a pool bottom paved with broken glass, cherries, twists of lemon peel, peyotl buttons, slices of orange, stuffed olives, sour onions, a television set, a hypodermic syringe, and the ruins of a white grand piano.

The girl spit what was left of the lemon peel out on the floor, further disarranged her hair by running her fingers through it, wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, and slapped the table.

The waiter brought the Martinis, shaken and not stirred, as Bond had stipulated, and some slivers of lemon peel in a wine glass.

I rose and said certainly, name it, because that was quicker than ringing for Fritz, and he said gin on the rocks with lemon peel, and I went to the kitchen.

Fritz shaved slivers of lemon peel while I got the gin and a glass and a bowl of ice cubes.

As I put the tray on the stand he came, sat, put one ice cube in the glass, poured gin, twisted two pieces of lemon peel and dropped them in, and stirred.

Laney privately wished to ascribe this to drug-use, of which he'd seen no evidence whatever, and indeed Daniels's most potent public indulgence seemed to be multiple cups of decaf espresso taken with curls of lemon peel.