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Answer length

All 1,2002 letters 363 letters 1824 letters 505 letters 866 letters 1597 letters 1658 letters 1719 letters 24210 letters 6411 letters 30

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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. “Be indebted”1 answers · often → OWE
    3 letters
  3. “Be victorious”1 answers · often → WIN
    3 letters
  4. “Bean-based food”1 answers · often → SOY
    3 letters
  5. “Black road material”1 answers · often → TAR
    3 letters
  1. “Blue bird”1 answers · often → JAY
    3 letters
  2. “British bar”1 answers · often → PUB
    3 letters
  3. “British toilet”1 answers · often → LOO
    3 letters
  4. “Buddhist temple”1 answers · often → WAT
    3 letters
  5. “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. “Center point”1 answers · often → HUB
    3 letters
  6. “Cereal grain”1 answers · often → OAT
    3 letters
  7. “Chewing substance”1 answers · often → GUM
    3 letters
  8. “Chinese cooking pan”1 answers · often → WOK
    3 letters
  9. “Color fabric”1 answers · often → DYE
    3 letters
  10. “Conclusion”1 answers · often → END
    3 letters
  11. “Container”1 answers · often → BOX
    3 letters
  12. “Convent member”1 answers · often → NUN
    3 letters
  1. “Cook in oil”1 answers · often → FRY
    3 letters
  2. “Cover”1 answers · often → LID
    3 letters
  3. “Covered in ice”1 answers · often → ICY
    3 letters
  4. “Cow sound”1 answers · often → MOO
    3 letters
  5. “Creative work”1 answers · often → ART
    3 letters
  6. “Cricket tool”1 answers · often → BAT
    3 letters
  7. “Cry”1 answers · often → SOB
    3 letters
  8. “Cured pork leg”1 answers · often → HAM
    3 letters
  9. “Curse”1 answers · often → HEX
    3 letters
  10. “Cut branches”1 answers · often → LOP
    3 letters
  11. “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

Clues starting with E

  1. “Edgar Allan ___”1 answers · often → POE
    3 letters
  2. “Edge of the mouth”1 answers · often → LIP
    3 letters
  3. “Embrace”1 answers · often → HUG
    3 letters
  4. “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

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
  1. “Female pig”1 answers · often → SOW
    3 letters
  2. “Female principle”1 answers · often → YIN
    3 letters
  3. “Fish's swimming organ”1 answers · often → FIN
    3 letters
  4. “Fizzy drink”1 answers · often → POP
    3 letters
  5. “Fruit preserve”1 answers · often → JAM
    3 letters

Clues starting with G

  1. “Garment edge”1 answers · often → HEM
    3 letters
  2. “Geographical chart”1 answers · often → MAP
    3 letters
  3. “Government levy”1 answers · often → TAX
    3 letters
  4. “Grain for dark bread”1 answers · often → RYE
    3 letters
  1. “Gratuity”1 answers · often → TIP
    3 letters
  2. “Groove in road”1 answers · often → RUT
    3 letters
  3. “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
  1. “Hawaiian paste”1 answers · often → POI
    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
  1. “Jog”1 answers · often → RUN
    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 tank”1 answers · often → VAT
    3 letters
  3. “Legal rule”1 answers · often → LAW
    3 letters
  4. “Lentil dish”1 answers · often → DAL
    3 letters
  1. “Limb”1 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. “New Zealand bird”1 answers · often → TUI
    3 letters
  2. “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. “Our star”1 answers · often → SUN
    3 letters
  1. “Oval breakfast food”1 answers · often → EGG
    3 letters

Clues starting with P

  1. “Pair of performers”1 answers · often → DUO
    3 letters
  2. “Pale and weak”1 answers · often → WAN
    3 letters
  3. “Pastry dish”1 answers · often → PIE
    3 letters
  4. “Peace”1 answers · often → PAX
    3 letters
  5. “Peace (Latin)”1 answers · often → PAX
    3 letters
  6. “Period of time”1 answers · often → AGE
    3 letters
  7. “Pig”1 answers · often → HOG
    3 letters
  1. “Pig pen”1 answers · often → STY
    3 letters
  2. “Pigeon sound”1 answers · often → COO
    3 letters
  3. “Pitcher”1 answers · often → JUG
    3 letters
  4. “Plaything”1 answers · often → TOY
    3 letters
  5. “Pop song”1 answers · often → HIT
    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. “Seed container”1 answers · often → POD
    3 letters
  4. “Shade of color”1 answers · often → HUE
    3 letters
  5. “Sick”1 answers · often → ILL
    3 letters
  6. “Side bone”1 answers · often → RIB
    3 letters
  7. “Signal to act”1 answers · often → CUE
    3 letters
  8. “Slow run”1 answers · often → JOG
    3 letters
  9. “Small barrel”1 answers · often → KEG
    3 letters
  10. “Small devil”1 answers · often → IMP
    3 letters
  11. “Small hotel”1 answers · often → INN
    3 letters
  12. “Small shelter”1 answers · often → HUT
    3 letters
  13. “Smoked salmon”1 answers · often → LOX
    3 letters
  14. “Snoop”1 answers · often → PRY
    3 letters
  15. “Snow runner”1 answers · often → SKI
    3 letters
  1. “Sphere”1 answers · often → ORB
    3 letters
  2. “Spider's trap”1 answers · often → WEB
    3 letters
  3. “Spirit with juniper”1 answers · often → GIN
    3 letters
  4. “Spring month”1 answers · often → MAY
    3 letters
  5. “Steersman”1 answers · often → COX
    3 letters
  6. “Stick out”1 answers · often → JUT
    3 letters
  7. “Stitch”1 answers · often → SEW
    3 letters
  8. “Strike”1 answers · often → HIT
    3 letters
  9. “Strong hardwood tree”1 answers · often → OAK
    3 letters
  10. “Study room”1 answers · often → DEN
    3 letters
  11. “Summit”1 answers · often → TOP
    3 letters
  12. “Sun-bronzed color”1 answers · often → TAN
    3 letters
  13. “Swampy ground”1 answers · often → BOG
    3 letters
  14. “Sweet fruit”1 answers · often → FIG
    3 letters
  15. “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. “Water (French)”1 answers · often → EAU
    3 letters
  2. “Weight unit”1 answers · often → TON
    3 letters
  3. “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

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