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Answer for the clue "Saucy letters delivered by the ladleful? ", 13 letters:
alphabet soup

Word definitions for alphabet soup in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of soup that contains noodles in the shape of various alphabetical letters 2 (context figuratively English) An overabundance of acronyms and abbreviations

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Alphabet soup is a metaphor for an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms , named for a common dish made from alphabet pasta . Use dates at least as far back as Franklin D. Roosevelt's alphabet agencies of the New Deal . In the United States , the Federal ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a confusing assortment; "Roosevelt created an alphabet soup of federal agencies" soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet

Usage examples of alphabet soup.

In her years working for various departments of the floating alphabet soup that was Uncle's way of sliding under Congress's radar, she had taken apart some dudes who thought they were the toughest men ever to swing their balls when they walked.

If any of this were true-and the primordial alphabet soup really is random-don't you think it's highly unlikely that we could structure the whole thing?

The dust theory implied a countless number of alternative worlds: billions of different possible histories spelled out from the same primordial alphabet soup.

There were cryptic symbols all over it like Chinese alphabet soup.

The GD engineers had also thrown in an alphabet soup of new dogfighting technologies.