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“African fruit tree”

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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

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

Clue library

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Clues starting with A

  1. “African fruit tree”1 answers · often → DIKA
    4 letters
  2. “Angry crowds”1 answers · often → MOBS
    4 letters
  3. “Animal lairs”1 answers · often → DENS
    4 letters
  4. “Asian conifer”1 answers · often → NAGI
    4 letters
  1. “Asian evergreen tree”1 answers · often → DITA
    4 letters
  2. “Atlantic bream”1 answers · often → SCUP
    4 letters
  3. “Atlantic game catch”1 answers · often → CERO
    4 letters
  4. “Australian runners”1 answers · often → EMUS
    4 letters

Clues starting with B

  1. “Baby cloths”1 answers · often → BIBS
    4 letters
  2. “Balkan circle dance”1 answers · often → KOLO
    4 letters
  3. “Barrel stopper”1 answers · often → BUNG
    4 letters
  4. “Beer barrels”1 answers · often → KEGS
    4 letters
  1. “Blue pigment”1 answers · often → BICE
    4 letters
  2. “British sheet size”1 answers · often → DEMY
    4 letters
  3. “Bullion weight”1 answers · often → TOLA
    4 letters

Clues starting with C

  1. “Cabinet inlay”1 answers · often → BUHL
    4 letters
  2. “Cake-like”1 answers · often → CAKY
    4 letters
  3. “Camp beds”1 answers · often → COTS
    4 letters
  4. “Cassava granules”1 answers · often → GARI
    4 letters
  5. “Cheap trinket”1 answers · often → GAUD
    4 letters
  6. “Chew persistently”1 answers · often → GNAW
    4 letters
  7. “Clear spirits”1 answers · often → GINS
    4 letters
  1. “Climbing plant”2 answers · often → IVY
    3 letters
  2. “Coal basket”1 answers · often → CORF
    4 letters
  3. “Coconut fiber”1 answers · often → COIR
    4 letters
  4. “Codlike swimmer”1 answers · often → CUSK
    4 letters
  5. “Crow cries”1 answers · often → CAWS
    4 letters
  6. “Cured meats”1 answers · often → HAMS
    4 letters

Clues starting with D

  1. “Decorative knob”1 answers · often → KNOP
    4 letters
  2. “Dipping morsels”1 answers · often → SOPS
    4 letters
  1. “Dove sounds”1 answers · often → COOS
    4 letters
  2. “Drinking toast”2 answers · often → SKOL
    4 letters

Clues starting with E

  1. “Eastern sacred image”1 answers · often → IKON
    4 letters
  1. “Egyptian life symbol”1 answers · often → ANKH
    4 letters

Clues starting with F

  1. “Female sheep”2 answers · often → EWE
    3 letters
  2. “Filipino skewer”1 answers · often → ISAW
    4 letters
  3. “Fishing hook”1 answers · often → GAFF
    4 letters
  4. “Flat flower cluster”1 answers · often → CYME
    4 letters
  1. “Flat-topped cap”1 answers · often → KEPI
    4 letters
  2. “Flood boats”1 answers · often → ARKS
    4 letters
  3. “Floor cleaners”1 answers · often → MOPS
    4 letters
  4. “Frozen treats”1 answers · often → ICES
    4 letters

Clues starting with G

  1. “Garden tools”1 answers · often → HOES
    4 letters
  1. “Glossy reads”1 answers · often → MAGS
    4 letters

Clues starting with H

  1. “Hair pests”1 answers · often → LICE
    4 letters
  2. “Hawaiian feast”1 answers · often → LUAU
    4 letters
  1. “Heavy drinker”2 answers · often → ALKY
    4 letters

Clues starting with I

  1. “Iberian dance”1 answers · often → JOTA
    4 letters
  2. “Indian fruit”1 answers · often → BAEL
    4 letters
  1. “Indian weaverbird”1 answers · often → BAYA
    4 letters

Clues starting with J

  1. “Japanese cedar”1 answers · often → SUGI
    4 letters

Clues starting with L

  1. “Large deer”1 answers · often → ELKS
    4 letters
  2. “Lateen-rigged vessel”1 answers · often → DHOW
    4 letters
  3. “Lice eggs”1 answers · often → NITS
    4 letters
  4. “Lightweight timber”1 answers · often → POON
    4 letters
  1. “Lime-rich soil”1 answers · often → MARL
    4 letters
  2. “Lively dances”1 answers · often → JIGS
    4 letters
  3. “Low islands”1 answers · often → CAYS
    4 letters
  4. “Lower wall panel”1 answers · often → DADO
    4 letters

Clues starting with M

  1. “Marshlands”1 answers · often → FENS
    4 letters
  2. “Marshy spots”1 answers · often → BOGS
    4 letters
  1. “Mine finds”1 answers · often → ORES
    4 letters
  2. “Mountain goat”1 answers · often → IBEX
    4 letters

Clues starting with N

  1. “New Zealand parrot”1 answers · often → KAKA
    4 letters
  2. “New Zealand timber”2 answers · often → MIRO
    4 letters
  3. “New Zealand tree”2 answers · often → PUKA
    4 letters
  4. “Noisy birds”1 answers · often → JAYS
    4 letters
  1. “Nonsense”1 answers · often → GUFF
    4 letters
  2. “Nonwoody bloom”1 answers · often → FORB
    4 letters
  3. “North African wrap”1 answers · often → HAIK
    4 letters

Clues starting with O

  1. “Oatcake quarter”1 answers · often → FARL
    4 letters
  2. “Old casino game”1 answers · often → FARO
    4 letters
  1. “One-horse sleigh”1 answers · often → PUNG
    4 letters
  2. “Orchid genus”1 answers · often → DISA
    4 letters

Clues starting with P

  1. “Pacific root drink”1 answers · often → KAVA
    4 letters
  2. “Painted metalware”1 answers · often → TOLE
    4 letters
  3. “Passing crazes”1 answers · often → FADS
    4 letters
  4. “Pastry dough”1 answers · often → FILO
    4 letters
  5. “Pen points”1 answers · often → NIBS
    4 letters
  1. “Perfume oil”1 answers · often → ATAR
    4 letters
  2. “Pickle kin”1 answers · often → CUKE
    4 letters
  3. “Pub brews”1 answers · often → ALES
    4 letters
  4. “Pueblo chamber”1 answers · often → KIVA
    4 letters

Clues starting with Q

  1. “Quick dodge”1 answers · often → JINK
    4 letters
  1. “Quilt stuffing”1 answers · often → BATT
    4 letters

Clues starting with R

  1. “Resistance units”1 answers · often → OHMS
    4 letters
  2. “Ribbed fabric”1 answers · often → REPP
    4 letters
  1. “Risky delicacy”1 answers · often → FUGU
    4 letters
  2. “Rouge the cheeks”1 answers · often → FARD
    4 letters

Clues starting with S

  1. “Sail close-hauled”1 answers · often → LUFF
    4 letters
  2. “Scrappy small dog”1 answers · often → FICE
    4 letters
  3. “Shell bead”1 answers · often → PEAG
    4 letters
  4. “Sixties dance”1 answers · often → FRUG
    4 letters
  5. “Slightly open”1 answers · often → AJAR
    4 letters
  6. “Small river swimmer”1 answers · often → DACE
    4 letters
  7. “Small sewing case”1 answers · often → ETUI
    4 letters
  8. “South African flower”1 answers · often → IXIA
    4 letters
  9. “South American rodent”1 answers · often → PACA
    4 letters
  1. “Spanish stew”1 answers · often → OLIO
    4 letters
  2. “Spathe flower”1 answers · often → ARUM
    4 letters
  3. “Splitting tool”1 answers · often → FROE
    4 letters
  4. “Sprout bean”1 answers · often → MUNG
    4 letters
  5. “Stage pickups”1 answers · often → MICS
    4 letters
  6. “Stare openly”1 answers · often → GAWK
    4 letters
  7. “Striped grazer”1 answers · often → GUIB
    4 letters
  8. “Styling goops”1 answers · often → GELS
    4 letters

Clues starting with T

  1. “Three-player trick game”1 answers · often → SKAT
    4 letters
  2. “Tool handle”2 answers · often → HAFT
    4 letters
  3. “Tree frog genus”1 answers · often → HYLA
    4 letters
  1. “Tropical pulse”1 answers · often → DHAL
    4 letters
  2. “Tropical shade tree”1 answers · often → INGA
    4 letters

Clues starting with W

  1. “Watch-chain charms”1 answers · often → FOBS
    4 letters
  2. “Western neckwear”1 answers · often → BOLO
    4 letters
  3. “Wheel nuts”1 answers · often → LUGS
    4 letters
  1. “White fish”1 answers · often → CODS
    4 letters
  2. “Wooden sandal”1 answers · often → GETA
    4 letters
  3. “Wrinkled citrus”1 answers · often → UGLI
    4 letters

Clues starting with Y

  1. “Yellow bloom tree”1 answers · often → TIPU
    4 letters
  1. “Young horse”1 answers · often → FOAL
    4 letters

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