“Old grey donkey” of fiction Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

FICTION (noun)
1. a deliberately false or improbable account
2. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
DONKEY (noun)
1. domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
2. the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

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