The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 3 plus 4 plus 3 letter word PAINT THE TOWN RED
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More clues leading to the result PAINT THE TOWN RED
- Celebrate thirteen down — apt after a fashion
- Working in Perth, wanted to celebrate uninhibitedly
- Party in power that tends, mostly, to waver
- Parent with noted eccentric gets to enjoy celebrating?
- Live it up out with noted parent
- Partied without restraint on 20th, out to do this?
- Celebrate winter at the pond, drunk
- “Go out and have a ball“: message from new poet
- “Drinking one beer in there won’t hurt” — department have a wild night out
- How attender with pint is out to have a wild celebration
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