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“Aftermast canvas”

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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. “Aftermast canvas”2 answers · often → MIZEN
    5 letters
  2. “Agave brew”1 answers · often → PULQUE
    6 letters
  3. “Alley player”1 answers · often → KEGLER
    6 letters
  4. “Altar hanging”2 answers · often → DOSSAL
    6 letters
  5. “Ancient drinking horn”1 answers · often → RHYTON
    6 letters
  1. “Arab trading vessel”1 answers · often → NUGGAR
    6 letters
  2. “Armored tank”1 answers · often → PANZER
    6 letters
  3. “Artists inscription”1 answers · often → PINXIT
    6 letters
  4. “Atlantic food fish”1 answers · often → TAUTOG
    6 letters

Clues starting with B

  1. “Baccarat cousin”1 answers · often → CHEMMY
    6 letters
  2. “Balloon envelope”1 answers · often → GASBAG
    6 letters
  3. “Baltic cargo vessel”1 answers · often → CRAYER
    6 letters
  4. “Basque court game”1 answers · often → PELOTA
    6 letters
  5. “Beer-lemonade drink”1 answers · often → SHANDY
    6 letters
  6. “Blue bulb”1 answers · often → SQUILL
    6 letters
  1. “Blue bulb flower”1 answers · often → SCILLA
    6 letters
  2. “Boot protector”1 answers · often → TOECAP
    6 letters
  3. “Boring tool”1 answers · often → WIMBLE
    6 letters
  4. “Bowling target”1 answers · often → TENPIN
    6 letters
  5. “Brass flourish”1 answers · often → TUCKET
    6 letters

Clues starting with C

  1. “California food fish”1 answers · often → SAUREL
    6 letters
  2. “Card cheat”1 answers · often → SHARPY
    6 letters
  3. “Cargo load”1 answers · often → LADING
    6 letters
  4. “Carriage hood”1 answers · often → CALASH
    6 letters
  5. “Catfish whisker”1 answers · often → BARBEL
    6 letters
  6. “Cheap finery”1 answers · often → FALLAL
    6 letters
  7. “Chipping tool”1 answers · often → FLAKER
    6 letters
  1. “Church songbook”1 answers · often → HYMNAL
    6 letters
  2. “Citrus pest”1 answers · often → MEDFLY
    6 letters
  3. “Cobalt oxide”1 answers · often → ZAFFRE
    6 letters
  4. “Cobbler”1 answers · often → SOUTER
    6 letters
  5. “Column-base claw”1 answers · often → GRIFFE
    6 letters
  6. “Crescent ornament”1 answers · often → LUNULA
    6 letters
  7. “Crustacean claw”1 answers · often → NIPPER
    6 letters

Clues starting with D

  1. “Dance participant”1 answers · often → REELER
    6 letters
  2. “Dancer's buoyancy”1 answers · often → BALLON
    6 letters
  3. “Dogwood family”1 answers · often → CORNUS
    6 letters
  1. “Drink moderately”1 answers · often → TIPPLE
    6 letters
  2. “Drinking toast”2 answers · often → SKOL
    4 letters
  3. “Drying frame”1 answers · often → TENTER
    6 letters

Clues starting with E

  1. “Edibles”1 answers · often → VIANDS
    6 letters
  2. “European food fish”1 answers · often → MAIGRE
    6 letters
  1. “Evergreen holly”1 answers · often → YAUPON
    6 letters

Clues starting with F

  1. “Fifteen-point game”1 answers · often → QUINZE
    6 letters
  2. “Filipino cleaver”1 answers · often → BARONG
    6 letters
  3. “Fine white clay”1 answers · often → KAOLIN
    6 letters
  4. “Firewood worker”1 answers · often → CORDER
    6 letters
  5. “Flapped cap”1 answers · often → PINNER
    6 letters
  6. “Flashy trinket”1 answers · often → BAUBLE
    6 letters
  1. “Four-leaf book size”1 answers · often → QUARTO
    6 letters
  2. “Fragrant shrub”2 answers · often → STYRAX
    6 letters
  3. “Frilly headwear”1 answers · often → MOBCAP
    6 letters
  4. “Funeral vehicle”1 answers · often → HEARSE
    6 letters
  5. “Furnace worker”1 answers · often → MELTER
    6 letters

Clues starting with G

  1. “Garden annual”1 answers · often → BEDDER
    6 letters
  2. “Garden shrub”2 answers · often → ABELIA
    6 letters
  3. “Garden tool”2 answers · often → HOE
    3 letters
  4. “Gilt brass”1 answers · often → ORMOLU
    6 letters
  1. “Grain leveler”1 answers · often → STRICK
    6 letters
  2. “Greedy drinker”1 answers · often → GULPER
    6 letters
  3. “Gripping tool”1 answers · often → PLYERS
    6 letters

Clues starting with H

  1. “Head covering”2 answers · often → HAT
    3 letters
  2. “Heavy curtain fabric”1 answers · often → MOREEN
    6 letters
  3. “Heavy drinker”2 answers · often → ALKY
    4 letters
  4. “Heavy fare”1 answers · often → STODGE
    6 letters
  1. “Hired carriage”1 answers · often → FIACRE
    6 letters
  2. “Horse cab”1 answers · often → GHARRY
    6 letters
  3. “Hull plank”1 answers · often → STRAKE
    6 letters
  4. “Hull-ridged”1 answers · often → KEELED
    6 letters

Clues starting with I

  1. “Imitation gold alloy”5 answers · often → OREIDE
    6 letters
  2. “Indian dance”1 answers · often → NAUTCH
    6 letters
  1. “Indian yellow”1 answers · often → PURREE
    6 letters
  2. “Ivy kin”1 answers · often → ARALIA
    6 letters

Clues starting with J

  1. “Jewish prayer book”1 answers · often → SIDDUR
    6 letters

Clues starting with L

  1. “Lace table mat”1 answers · often → DOYLEY
    6 letters
  2. “Light sailing vessel”1 answers · often → CARVEL
    6 letters
  3. “Lime cocktail”1 answers · often → RICKEY
    6 letters
  4. “Lithography ink”1 answers · often → TUSCHE
    6 letters
  5. “Longan fruit”1 answers · often → LUNGEN
    6 letters
  1. “Loose-leaf booklet”1 answers · often → CAHIER
    6 letters
  2. “Louisiana music”1 answers · often → ZYDECO
    6 letters
  3. “Low footstool”1 answers · often → TUFFET
    6 letters
  4. “Low-hung carriage”1 answers · often → HERDIC
    6 letters
  5. “Luxury weave”1 answers · often → LAMPAS
    6 letters

Clues starting with M

  1. “Malay cutting blade”1 answers · often → PARANG
    6 letters
  2. “Mark with red”1 answers · often → RADDLE
    6 letters
  3. “Mass book”1 answers · often → MISSAL
    6 letters
  4. “Measured serving”1 answers · often → CUPFUL
    6 letters
  5. “Medieval cap”1 answers · often → BARRET
    6 letters
  1. “Melodic recitative”1 answers · often → ARIOSO
    6 letters
  2. “Metallic clatter”1 answers · often → JANGLE
    6 letters
  3. “Molten-metal dross”1 answers · often → SCORIA
    6 letters
  4. “Mulberry fruit”1 answers · often → MURREY
    6 letters

Clues starting with N

  1. “Net fisherman”1 answers · often → SEINER
    6 letters
  2. “New Zealand evergreen”1 answers · often → KAPUKA
    6 letters
  1. “New Zealand timber”2 answers · often → MIRO
    4 letters
  2. “New Zealand tree”2 answers · often → PUKA
    4 letters

Clues starting with O

  1. “Oil-paint medium”2 answers · often → MAGILP
    6 letters
  2. “Old card game”1 answers · often → BOODLE
    6 letters
  3. “On a bicycle”1 answers · often → AWHEEL
    6 letters
  4. “Open Russian carriage”1 answers · often → DROSKY
    6 letters
  1. “Open-mesh textile”1 answers · often → ETAMIN
    6 letters
  2. “Ore waste”1 answers · often → GANGUE
    6 letters
  3. “Ornate style”1 answers · often → ROCOCO
    6 letters
  4. “Oystering sailboat”1 answers · often → BUGEYE
    6 letters

Clues starting with P

  1. “Packing tool”1 answers · often → RAMMER
    6 letters
  2. “Papermaker's frame”1 answers · often → DECKLE
    6 letters
  3. “Pebbled weave”1 answers · often → ARMURE
    6 letters
  4. “Philippine fruit”1 answers · often → MARANG
    6 letters
  5. “Pink trumpet bloom”1 answers · often → ROSITA
    6 letters
  1. “Plume ornament”2 answers · often → AIGRET
    6 letters
  2. “Plush textile”1 answers · often → VELURE
    6 letters
  3. “Pocket notebook”1 answers · often → JOTTER
    6 letters
  4. “Poor coin metal”1 answers · often → BILLON
    6 letters
  5. “Portrait painter”1 answers · often → LIMNER
    6 letters

Clues starting with R

  1. “Raised-fiber finish”1 answers · often → NAPPED
    6 letters
  2. “Rare-earth element”1 answers · often → ERBIUM
    6 letters
  3. “Red lead pigment”1 answers · often → MINIUM
    6 letters
  4. “Red-berried tree”1 answers · often → IDESIA
    6 letters
  5. “Reed player”1 answers · often → OBOIST
    6 letters
  1. “Remove cargo”1 answers · often → UNLADE
    6 letters
  2. “Restorative drink”1 answers · often → BRACER
    6 letters
  3. “Rhus shrub”1 answers · often → SUMACH
    6 letters
  4. “Rich silk cloth”1 answers · often → SAMITE
    6 letters
  5. “Rinsing vessel”1 answers · often → EYECUP
    6 letters

Clues starting with S

  1. “Sail rig”1 answers · often → GUNTER
    6 letters
  2. “Scrap pouch”1 answers · often → RAGBAG
    6 letters
  3. “Sea-going vessel”1 answers · often → SAILER
    6 letters
  4. “Sherbet fruit”1 answers · often → SAPOTE
    6 letters
  5. “Shinto dance”1 answers · often → KAGURA
    6 letters
  6. “Showy trinket”1 answers · often → GEWGAW
    6 letters
  7. “Silk-wool cloth”1 answers · often → CAMLET
    6 letters
  8. “Single-voice music”1 answers · often → MONODY
    6 letters
  9. “Small undeveloped ear”1 answers · often → NUBBIN
    6 letters
  10. “Smeared with color”1 answers · often → PAINTY
    6 letters
  11. “Soot-brown pigment”2 answers · often → BISTER
    6 letters
  1. “Sour vinegar”1 answers · often → ACETUM
    6 letters
  2. “Stage dancer”1 answers · often → HOOFER
    6 letters
  3. “Stately court dance”1 answers · often → PAVANE
    6 letters
  4. “Stick-and-peg game”1 answers · often → TIPCAT
    6 letters
  5. “Stippling device”1 answers · often → DOTTER
    6 letters
  6. “Stove skillet”1 answers · often → FRYPAN
    6 letters
  7. “Straw sugar”1 answers · often → XYLOSE
    6 letters
  8. “Suit-sequence game”1 answers · often → FANTAN
    6 letters
  9. “Surveyors sight”1 answers · often → ALIDAD
    6 letters
  10. “Sweet tropical fruit”1 answers · often → SAPOTA
    6 letters

Clues starting with T

  1. “Tail segment”1 answers · often → TELSON
    6 letters
  2. “Tall cactus”1 answers · often → CEREUS
    6 letters
  3. “Tea taster”1 answers · often → CUPPER
    6 letters
  4. “Thin worsted cloth”1 answers · often → COBURG
    6 letters
  5. “Thorny shrub”2 answers · often → CHANAL
    6 letters
  6. “Toast glass”1 answers · often → RUMMER
    6 letters
  7. “Toddler hiding game”1 answers · often → BOPEEP
    6 letters
  1. “Tongueless shoe”1 answers · often → GILLIE
    6 letters
  2. “Tortoiseshell inlay”1 answers · often → BOULLE
    6 letters
  3. “Toy that goes bang”1 answers · often → POPGUN
    6 letters
  4. “Triangular rig”1 answers · often → LATEEN
    6 letters
  5. “Tropical jelly fruit”1 answers · often → FEIJOA
    6 letters
  6. “Two-masted vessel”1 answers · often → DOGGER
    6 letters
  7. “Two-player trick game”1 answers · often → ECARTE
    6 letters

Clues starting with V

  1. “Venomous snake”1 answers · often → ELAPID
    6 letters
  2. “Verse reference”1 answers · often → GRADUS
    6 letters
  1. “Veteran sailor”1 answers · often → SEADOG
    6 letters

Clues starting with W

  1. “Waist pouch”1 answers · often → BUMBAG
    6 letters
  2. “Warm mixed fabric”1 answers · often → WINCEY
    6 letters
  3. “Warm-region lizard”1 answers · often → AGAMID
    6 letters
  1. “Waterproof overshoe”1 answers · often → GOLOSH
    6 letters
  2. “White lead”1 answers · often → CERUSE
    6 letters
  3. “Wood sorrel genus”1 answers · often → OXALIS
    6 letters

Clues starting with Y

  1. “Yard-corner line”1 answers · often → EARING
    6 letters
  1. “Yellow compound”1 answers · often → FLAVIN
    6 letters

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