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Index III — Clues

Hints, clues
& likely answers

When you have a clue but no letters. Look up the clue, compare likely answers, and use length and crossings to choose the right word.

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“abdominal muscle”

A good crossword clue is open enough to create options, but precise enough that length and crossing letters narrow the answer. Start with the strongest suggestions, then open the clue page for definitions.

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Answer length

All 1,1642 letters 383 letters 2074 letters 1195 letters 776 letters 1717 letters 1988 letters 2129 letters 161

Topic

All 1,164Short answers 361Several answers 32Curated clues 1,164

Clue library

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Clues starting with A

  1. “abdominal muscle”1 answers · often → AB
    2 letters
  2. “advertisement”1 answers · often → AD
    2 letters
  1. “and, in Latin”1 answers · often → ET
    2 letters

Clues starting with B

  1. “be quiet”1 answers · often → SH
    2 letters
  2. “bone, Latin”1 answers · often → OS
    2 letters
  1. “born as”2 answers · often → NE
    2 letters

Clues starting with C

  1. “Chinese unit of distance”1 answers · often → LI
    2 letters

Clues starting with E

  1. “elevated railway”1 answers · often → EL
    2 letters

Clues starting with F

  1. “former partner”1 answers · often → EX
    2 letters

Clues starting with G

  1. “greeting”1 answers · often → HI
    2 letters

Clues starting with H

  1. “half an em”1 answers · often → EN
    2 letters
  2. “having two”1 answers · often → BI
    2 letters
  1. “Hebrew letter”1 answers · often → PE
    2 letters
  2. “hesitation”1 answers · often → UM
    2 letters

Clues starting with L

  1. “large bovine”1 answers · often → OX
    2 letters
  2. “laugh sound”1 answers · often → HA
    2 letters
  1. “life force”1 answers · often → QI
    2 letters
  2. “look, archaic”1 answers · often → LO
    2 letters

Clues starting with M

  1. “meditative sound”1 answers · often → OM
    2 letters
  1. “moment”1 answers · often → MO
    2 letters

Clues starting with O

  1. “overdose”1 answers · often → OD
    2 letters

Clues starting with P

  1. “pain exclamation”1 answers · often → OW
    2 letters
  2. “plural of letter E”1 answers · often → ES
    2 letters
  1. “printer's unit”1 answers · often → EM
    2 letters

Clues starting with S

  1. “sound of thought”1 answers · often → HM
    2 letters
  2. “spirit in Egyptian belief”1 answers · often → KA
    2 letters
  1. “sweetheart, Scottish”1 answers · often → JO
    2 letters

Clues starting with T

  1. “thanks, British”1 answers · often → TA
    2 letters
  2. “the letter R”1 answers · often → AR
    2 letters
  3. “the unconscious self”1 answers · often → ID
    2 letters
  1. “three-toed sloth”1 answers · often → AI
    2 letters
  2. “toward”1 answers · often → TO
    2 letters
  3. “type of lava”1 answers · often → AA
    2 letters

Clues starting with V

  1. “Vietnamese currency”1 answers · often → XU
    2 letters

Clues starting with W

  1. “what?”1 answers · often → EH
    2 letters
  1. “woe, archaic”1 answers · often → WO
    2 letters

Clues starting with Y

  1. “you, archaic”1 answers · often → YE
    2 letters
  1. “you, informal”1 answers · often → YA
    2 letters

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