Synching one audio clip amongst several video clips

I got media from a client:
3 x video clips (with camera-mic audio attached)
and
1 (one) long continuous audio clip recorded seperately, which speaks to ALL three video clips
The audio guy did NOT start/stop his recording when the camera guy start/stopped his camea. (Hence, the three video clips, versus the ONE long continous audio clip.)
The audio guy did NOT clap-slate (Argh!)
I went to "synchronize" the clips in FCPX. The first video clip synched up just fine.
However, the other two video clips did not.
Q: How can I help FCPX along to synchronize the one, long conitnous audio clip to the three SEPERATE video clips?

If the three video clips string out with the single audio file, in the inspector assign the sane camera angle to all three clips and them make a multicam clip of all four items.

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