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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. “Above the clouds”1 answers · often → SKY
    3 letters
  2. “Admirer”1 answers · often → FAN
    3 letters
  3. “African wildebeest”1 answers · often → GNU
    3 letters
  4. “Alkaline solution”1 answers · often → LYE
    3 letters
  1. “Anger”1 answers · often → IRE
    3 letters
  2. “Atmosphere”1 answers · often → AIR
    3 letters
  3. “Australian bird”1 answers · often → EMU
    3 letters
  4. “Automobile”1 answers · often → CAR
    3 letters

Clues starting with B

  1. “Ballet steps”1 answers · often → PAS
    3 letters
  2. “Baseball official”1 answers · often → UMP
    3 letters
  3. “Be indebted”1 answers · often → OWE
    3 letters
  4. “Be victorious”1 answers · often → WIN
    3 letters
  5. “Bean-based food”1 answers · often → SOY
    3 letters
  6. “Bill”1 answers · often → TAB
    3 letters
  7. “Black road material”1 answers · often → TAR
    3 letters
  1. “Blend”1 answers · often → MIX
    3 letters
  2. “Blue bird”1 answers · often → JAY
    3 letters
  3. “born as”2 answers · often → NE
    2 letters
  4. “British bar”1 answers · often → PUB
    3 letters
  5. “British toilet”1 answers · often → LOO
    3 letters
  6. “Buddhist temple”1 answers · often → WAT
    3 letters
  7. “Bundle of money”1 answers · often → WAD
    3 letters

Clues starting with C

  1. “Canine”1 answers · often → DOG
    3 letters
  2. “Caribbean spirit”1 answers · often → RUM
    3 letters
  3. “Carry all”1 answers · often → BAG
    3 letters
  4. “Catch a criminal”1 answers · often → NAB
    3 letters
  5. “Cease to live”1 answers · often → DIE
    3 letters
  6. “Center point”1 answers · often → HUB
    3 letters
  7. “Cereal grain”1 answers · often → OAT
    3 letters
  8. “Chewing substance”1 answers · often → GUM
    3 letters
  9. “Chinese cooking pan”1 answers · often → WOK
    3 letters
  10. “Climbing plant”2 answers · often → IVY
    3 letters
  11. “Color fabric”1 answers · often → DYE
    3 letters
  12. “Conclusion”1 answers · often → END
    3 letters
  13. “Container”1 answers · often → BOX
    3 letters
  1. “Convent member”1 answers · often → NUN
    3 letters
  2. “Cook in oil”1 answers · often → FRY
    3 letters
  3. “Cover”1 answers · often → LID
    3 letters
  4. “Covered in ice”1 answers · often → ICY
    3 letters
  5. “Cow sound”1 answers · often → MOO
    3 letters
  6. “Crafty”1 answers · often → SLY
    3 letters
  7. “Creative work”1 answers · often → ART
    3 letters
  8. “Cricket tool”1 answers · often → BAT
    3 letters
  9. “Cry”1 answers · often → SOB
    3 letters
  10. “Cured pork leg”1 answers · often → HAM
    3 letters
  11. “Curse”1 answers · often → HEX
    3 letters
  12. “Cut branches”1 answers · often → LOP
    3 letters
  13. “Cut grass”1 answers · often → MOW
    3 letters

Clues starting with D

  1. “Damp”1 answers · often → WET
    3 letters
  2. “Distant”1 answers · often → FAR
    3 letters
  3. “Do something”1 answers · often → ACT
    3 letters
  1. “Domesticated animal”1 answers · often → PET
    3 letters
  2. “Drinking vessel”1 answers · often → CUP
    3 letters
  3. “Droop”1 answers · often → SAG
    3 letters

Clues starting with E

  1. “Edgar Allan ___”1 answers · often → POE
    3 letters
  2. “Edge”1 answers · often → RIM
    3 letters
  3. “Edge of the mouth”1 answers · often → LIP
    3 letters
  4. “Embrace”1 answers · often → HUG
    3 letters
  5. “Enemy”1 answers · often → FOE
    3 letters
  1. “Energy”1 answers · often → VIM
    3 letters
  2. “Enjoyment”1 answers · often → FUN
    3 letters
  3. “Exercise room”1 answers · often → GYM
    3 letters
  4. “Expert”1 answers · often → ACE
    3 letters

Clues starting with F

  1. “False hair”1 answers · often → WIG
    3 letters
  2. “Fantasy creature”1 answers · often → ORC
    3 letters
  3. “Farm animal”1 answers · often → PIG
    3 letters
  4. “Faucet”1 answers · often → TAP
    3 letters
  5. “Feline”1 answers · often → CAT
    3 letters
  6. “Female pig”1 answers · often → SOW
    3 letters
  1. “Female principle”1 answers · often → YIN
    3 letters
  2. “Female sheep”2 answers · often → EWE
    3 letters
  3. “Fish's swimming organ”1 answers · often → FIN
    3 letters
  4. “Fizzy drink”1 answers · often → POP
    3 letters
  5. “Floor mat”1 answers · often → RUG
    3 letters
  6. “Fruit preserve”1 answers · often → JAM
    3 letters

Clues starting with G

  1. “Garden tool”2 answers · often → HOE
    3 letters
  2. “Garment edge”1 answers · often → HEM
    3 letters
  3. “Geographical chart”1 answers · often → MAP
    3 letters
  4. “Government levy”1 answers · often → TAX
    3 letters
  5. “Grain for dark bread”1 answers · often → RYE
    3 letters
  1. “Gratuity”1 answers · often → TIP
    3 letters
  2. “Greatest possible amount”1 answers · often → MAX
    3 letters
  3. “Groove in road”1 answers · often → RUT
    3 letters
  4. “Group”1 answers · often → SET
    3 letters

Clues starting with H

  1. “Hair styling substance”1 answers · often → GEL
    3 letters
  2. “Happiness”1 answers · often → JOY
    3 letters
  3. “Hard-shelled seed”1 answers · often → NUT
    3 letters
  4. “Hawaiian garland”1 answers · often → LEI
    3 letters
  5. “Hawaiian paste”1 answers · often → POI
    3 letters
  1. “Head covering”2 answers · often → HAT
    3 letters
  2. “Head movement of agreement”1 answers · often → NOD
    3 letters
  3. “Historical period”1 answers · often → ERA
    3 letters
  4. “Hole in the ground”1 answers · often → PIT
    3 letters

Clues starting with I

  1. “In good shape”1 answers · often → FIT
    3 letters
  2. “Indian coastal state”1 answers · often → GOA
    3 letters
  1. “Indian lentil dish”1 answers · often → DAL
    3 letters

Clues starting with J

  1. “Japanese sash”1 answers · often → OBI
    3 letters
  2. “Jog”1 answers · often → RUN
    3 letters
  1. “Jump”1 answers · often → HOP
    3 letters

Clues starting with K

  1. “Korean currency”1 answers · often → WON
    3 letters

Clues starting with L

  1. “Large basin”1 answers · often → TUB
    3 letters
  2. “Large flightless bird”1 answers · often → EMU
    3 letters
  3. “Large tank”1 answers · often → VAT
    3 letters
  4. “Legal rule”1 answers · often → LAW
    3 letters
  5. “Lentil dish”1 answers · often → DAL
    3 letters
  1. “Limb”2 answers · often → ARM
    3 letters
  2. “Line”1 answers · often → ROW
    3 letters
  3. “Lively dance”1 answers · often → JIG
    3 letters
  4. “Lyric poem”1 answers · often → ODE
    3 letters

Clues starting with M

  1. “Males”1 answers · often → MEN
    3 letters
  2. “Man, informally”1 answers · often → GUY
    3 letters
  3. “Marry”1 answers · often → WED
    3 letters
  4. “Marshy ground”1 answers · often → FEN
    3 letters
  5. “Meadow”1 answers · often → LEA
    3 letters
  6. “Mesh material”1 answers · often → NET
    3 letters
  7. “Mineral rock”1 answers · often → ORE
    3 letters
  1. “Misery”1 answers · often → WOE
    3 letters
  2. “Moral wrong”1 answers · often → SIN
    3 letters
  3. “Mother, British”1 answers · often → MUM
    3 letters
  4. “Mouth bone”1 answers · often → JAW
    3 letters
  5. “Music performance”1 answers · often → GIG
    3 letters
  6. “Mythical giant bird”1 answers · often → ROC
    3 letters
  7. “Mythical small being”1 answers · often → ELF
    3 letters

Clues starting with N

  1. “Neckwear”1 answers · often → TIE
    3 letters
  2. “New Zealand bird”1 answers · often → TUI
    3 letters
  3. “Noah's vessel”1 answers · often → ARK
    3 letters
  1. “Nocturnal bird”1 answers · often → OWL
    3 letters
  2. “Not wet”1 answers · often → DRY
    3 letters

Clues starting with O

  1. “Occupation”1 answers · often → JOB
    3 letters
  2. “Opening”1 answers · often → GAP
    3 letters
  1. “Our star”1 answers · often → SUN
    3 letters
  2. “Oval breakfast food”1 answers · often → EGG
    3 letters

Clues starting with P

  1. “Pair of performers”1 answers · often → DUO
    3 letters
  2. “Pastry dish”1 answers · often → PIE
    3 letters
  3. “Peace”1 answers · often → PAX
    3 letters
  4. “Peace (Latin)”1 answers · often → PAX
    3 letters
  5. “Period of time”1 answers · often → AGE
    3 letters
  6. “Pig”1 answers · often → HOG
    3 letters
  7. “Pig pen”1 answers · often → STY
    3 letters
  1. “Pigeon sound”1 answers · often → COO
    3 letters
  2. “Pitcher”1 answers · often → JUG
    3 letters
  3. “Plaything”1 answers · often → TOY
    3 letters
  4. “Pop song”1 answers · often → HIT
    3 letters
  5. “Possess”1 answers · often → OWN
    3 letters
  6. “Pull hard”1 answers · often → TUG
    3 letters
  7. “Purchase”1 answers · often → BUY
    3 letters

Clues starting with Q

  1. “Quick punch”1 answers · often → JAB
    3 letters

Clues starting with R

  1. “Ribbon knot”1 answers · often → BOW
    3 letters
  2. “River barrier”1 answers · often → DAM
    3 letters
  3. “Rodent”1 answers · often → RAT
    3 letters
  4. “Roman numeral 12”1 answers · often → XII
    3 letters
  5. “Roman numeral 14”1 answers · often → XIV
    3 letters
  1. “Roman numeral 16”1 answers · often → XVI
    3 letters
  2. “Roman numeral 3”1 answers · often → III
    3 letters
  3. “Roman numeral 7”1 answers · often → VII
    3 letters
  4. “Route”1 answers · often → WAY
    3 letters
  5. “Rowing paddle”1 answers · often → OAR
    3 letters

Clues starting with S

  1. “Sail”1 answers · often → JIB
    3 letters
  2. “Scold repeatedly”1 answers · often → NAG
    3 letters
  3. “Scottish cap”1 answers · often → TAM
    3 letters
  4. “Seed container”1 answers · often → POD
    3 letters
  5. “Shade of color”1 answers · often → HUE
    3 letters
  6. “Sick”1 answers · often → ILL
    3 letters
  7. “Side bone”1 answers · often → RIB
    3 letters
  8. “Signal to act”1 answers · often → CUE
    3 letters
  9. “Slow run”1 answers · often → JOG
    3 letters
  10. “Small barrel”1 answers · often → KEG
    3 letters
  11. “Small child”1 answers · often → TOT
    3 letters
  12. “Small devil”1 answers · often → IMP
    3 letters
  13. “Small hotel”1 answers · often → INN
    3 letters
  14. “Small shelter”1 answers · often → HUT
    3 letters
  15. “Small spot”1 answers · often → DOT
    3 letters
  16. “Smoked salmon”1 answers · often → LOX
    3 letters
  17. “Snoop”1 answers · often → PRY
    3 letters
  1. “Snow runner”1 answers · often → SKI
    3 letters
  2. “Sphere”1 answers · often → ORB
    3 letters
  3. “Spider's trap”1 answers · often → WEB
    3 letters
  4. “Spirit with juniper”1 answers · often → GIN
    3 letters
  5. “Spring month”1 answers · often → MAY
    3 letters
  6. “Steersman”1 answers · often → COX
    3 letters
  7. “Stick out”1 answers · often → JUT
    3 letters
  8. “Stitch”1 answers · often → SEW
    3 letters
  9. “Strike”1 answers · often → HIT
    3 letters
  10. “Strong hardwood tree”1 answers · often → OAK
    3 letters
  11. “Study room”1 answers · often → DEN
    3 letters
  12. “Summit”1 answers · often → TOP
    3 letters
  13. “Sun-bronzed color”1 answers · often → TAN
    3 letters
  14. “Swampy ground”1 answers · often → BOG
    3 letters
  15. “Sweet fruit”1 answers · often → FIG
    3 letters
  16. “Sweet potato”1 answers · often → YAM
    3 letters

Clues starting with T

  1. “Tibetan ox”1 answers · often → YAK
    3 letters

Clues starting with U

  1. “Unit of resistance”1 answers · often → OHM
    3 letters
  1. “Untruth”1 answers · often → LIE
    3 letters

Clues starting with V

  1. “Vase”1 answers · often → URN
    3 letters
  2. “Vietnamese noodle soup”1 answers · often → PHO
    3 letters
  1. “Vietnamese soup”1 answers · often → PHO
    3 letters
  2. “Vision organ”1 answers · often → EYE
    3 letters

Clues starting with W

  1. “Wages”1 answers · often → PAY
    3 letters
  2. “Water (French)”1 answers · often → EAU
    3 letters
  3. “Weight unit”1 answers · often → TON
    3 letters
  4. “What person”1 answers · often → WHO
    3 letters
  1. “Wooden pin”1 answers · often → PEG
    3 letters
  2. “Wordplay”1 answers · often → PUN
    3 letters
  3. “Writing instrument”1 answers · often → PEN
    3 letters

Clues starting with Y

  1. “Young dog”1 answers · often → PUP
    3 letters

Clues starting with Z

  1. “Zero”1 answers · often → NIL
    3 letters

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