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“Abstract notions”

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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. “Abstract notions”1 answers · often → CONCEPTS
    8 letters
  2. “Accepting differences”1 answers · often → TOLERANT
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  3. “After-dinner treats”1 answers · often → DESSERTS
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  4. “Alley target game”1 answers · often → NINEPINS
    8 letters
  5. “Ancient string box”1 answers · often → PSALTERY
    8 letters
  6. “Angle-finding navigators”1 answers · often → SEXTANTS
    8 letters
  1. “Anise-scented herb”1 answers · often → TARRAGON
    8 letters
  2. “Aristocratic rank”1 answers · often → NOBILITY
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  3. “Artist's color case”1 answers · often → PAINTBOX
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  4. “At the very front”1 answers · often → FOREMOST
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  5. “At the vessel's center”1 answers · often → MIDSHIPS
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  6. “Avoided by detour”1 answers · often → BYPASSED
    8 letters

Clues starting with B

  1. “Balanced matching”1 answers · often → SYMMETRY
    8 letters
  2. “Balloon flyer”1 answers · often → AERONAUT
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  3. “Bar percussion”1 answers · often → MARIMBAS
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  4. “Be made up of”1 answers · often → COMPRISE
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  5. “Becomes better”1 answers · often → IMPROVES
    8 letters
  1. “Belt transporter”1 answers · often → CONVEYER
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  2. “Bleakly empty”1 answers · often → DESOLATE
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  3. “Blended yogurt drink”1 answers · often → SMOOTHIE
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  4. “Bracket contests”1 answers · often → TOURNEYS
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Clues starting with C

  1. “Choice of expression”1 answers · often → PHRASING
    8 letters
  2. “Citrus tea flavor”1 answers · often → BERGAMOT
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  3. “Claims assessor”1 answers · often → ADJUSTER
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  1. “Clear and connected”1 answers · often → COHERENT
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  2. “Clearly separate”1 answers · often → DISTINCT
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  3. “Creamy green fruits”1 answers · often → AVOCADOS
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Clues starting with D

  1. “Dance in three beats”1 answers · often → WALTZING
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  2. “Decorative open fabric”1 answers · often → LACEWORK
    8 letters
  3. “Devoted supporter”1 answers · often → PARTISAN
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  1. “Digit symbols”1 answers · often → NUMERALS
    8 letters
  2. “Directing devices”1 answers · often → CONTROLS
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  3. “Drinkable liquid”1 answers · often → BEVERAGE
    8 letters

Clues starting with E

  1. “Earliest age”1 answers · often → PRIMEVAL
    8 letters
  2. “Enoughness”1 answers · often → ADEQUACY
    8 letters
  3. “Express grievance”1 answers · often → COMPLAIN
    8 letters
  1. “Extra final note”1 answers · often → ADDENDUM
    8 letters
  2. “Extremely, in old slang”1 answers · often → RATTLING
    8 letters

Clues starting with F

  1. “Fine furniture timber”1 answers · often → KINGWOOD
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  2. “Fine treat”1 answers · often → DELICACY
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  3. “Firm supporter”1 answers · often → ADHERENT
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  4. “Fixed in place”1 answers · often → STICKING
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  5. “Flaky baked treats”1 answers · often → PASTRIES
    8 letters
  6. “Flat pocket wallet”1 answers · often → BILLFOLD
    8 letters
  7. “Folded pastry”1 answers · often → TURNOVER
    8 letters
  8. “Forced out”1 answers · often → EXPELLED
    8 letters
  1. “Formal noon meal”1 answers · often → LUNCHEON
    8 letters
  2. “Forward rig cloth”1 answers · often → HEADSAIL
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  3. “Freed from blame”1 answers · often → ABSOLVED
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  4. “French snail course”1 answers · often → ESCARGOT
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  5. “Fresh participant”1 answers · often → NEWCOMER
    8 letters
  6. “Fried ring pastry”1 answers · often → DOUGHNUT
    8 letters
  7. “Front mast canvas”1 answers · often → FORESAIL
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Clues starting with G

  1. “Gained over time”1 answers · often → ACQUIRED
    8 letters
  2. “Garlicky red sauce”1 answers · often → MARINARA
    8 letters
  3. “Gathered formally”1 answers · often → CONVENED
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  4. “Ghostlike”1 answers · often → SPECTRAL
    8 letters
  5. “Given a role”1 answers · often → ASSIGNED
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  1. “Grand in appearance”1 answers · often → IMPOSING
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  2. “Griddle pancake”1 answers · often → FLAPJACK
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  3. “Grill outdoors”1 answers · often → BARBECUE
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  4. “Guided by imagination”1 answers · often → FANCIFUL
    8 letters

Clues starting with H

  1. “Harbor pumper”1 answers · often → FIREBOAT
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  2. “Hard palm drupes”1 answers · often → COCONUTS
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  3. “Hard to handle”1 answers · often → UNWIELDY
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  4. “Have doubts about”1 answers · often → DISTRUST
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  5. “Having supreme power”1 answers · often → ALMIGHTY
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  1. “Herbal steep”1 answers · often → INFUSION
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  2. “Hold another view”1 answers · often → DISAGREE
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  3. “Hot chili sauce”1 answers · often → SRIRACHA
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  4. “Hot oat mush”1 answers · often → PORRIDGE
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  5. “Huge in size”1 answers · often → GIGANTIC
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Clues starting with I

  1. “Illustrating cases”1 answers · often → EXAMPLES
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  2. “In calm manner”1 answers · often → PLACIDLY
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  3. “Individual portions”1 answers · often → SERVINGS
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  4. “Ingredient mixed in”1 answers · often → ADDITIVE
    8 letters
  1. “Inner pit wall”1 answers · often → ENDOCARP
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  2. “Insolvent”1 answers · often → BANKRUPT
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  3. “Is proper for”1 answers · often → BEHOOVES
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  4. “Ivory players”1 answers · often → PIANISTS
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Clues starting with K

  1. “Keeping close attention”1 answers · often → WATCHFUL
    8 letters
  1. “Knobby soup root”1 answers · often → CELERIAC
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Clues starting with L

  1. “Large citrus cousin”1 answers · often → SHADDOCK
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  2. “Lavish depth”1 answers · often → RICHNESS
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  1. “Lift-making wing shape”1 answers · often → AEROFOIL
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Clues starting with M

  1. “Made necessary”1 answers · often → ENTAILED
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  2. “Made to fit”1 answers · often → TAILORED
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  3. “Makes necessary”1 answers · often → REQUIRES
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  4. “Memory cue”1 answers · often → REMINDER
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  1. “Missing attendee”1 answers · often → ABSENTEE
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  2. “Most influential”1 answers · often → DOMINANT
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  3. “Most terse”1 answers · often → BRIEFEST
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  4. “Mythic divine fare”1 answers · often → AMBROSIA
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Clues starting with N

  1. “Neglected building”1 answers · often → DERELICT
    8 letters
  2. “Nice to experience”1 answers · often → PLEASANT
    8 letters
  3. “Nocturnal termite eater”1 answers · often → AARDVARK
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  4. “Not grown up”1 answers · often → IMMATURE
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  1. “Not in use”1 answers · often → INACTIVE
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  2. “Not vague”1 answers · often → DEFINITE
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  3. “Noun ownership form”1 answers · often → GENITIVE
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  4. “Nourishing substance”1 answers · often → NUTRIENT
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Clues starting with O

  1. “Open decorative textile”1 answers · often → LACEWORK
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  2. “Open to differences”1 answers · often → TOLERANT
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  1. “Opening dishes”1 answers · often → STARTERS
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  2. “Orange nutrient”1 answers · often → CAROTENE
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Clues starting with P

  1. “Paper flyers”1 answers · often → LEAFLETS
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  2. “Percussion musicians”1 answers · often → DRUMMERS
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  3. “Pioneer wildflower”1 answers · often → FIREWEED
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  4. “Plant on plant”1 answers · often → EPIPHYTE
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  1. “Political worldview”1 answers · often → IDEOLOGY
    8 letters
  2. “Propose for a role”1 answers · often → NOMINATE
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  3. “Protective player”1 answers · often → DEFENDER
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  4. “Public coin caller”1 answers · often → PAYPHONE
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Clues starting with R

  1. “Raised to better level”1 answers · often → UPGRADED
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  2. “Recorded audio or video”1 answers · often → PLAYBACK
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  3. “Rectangular fuel carrier”1 answers · often → JERRYCAN
    8 letters
  4. “Red salad produce”1 answers · often → TOMATOES
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  5. “Reduced schedule”1 answers · often → PARTTIME
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  6. “Remaining part”1 answers · often → RESIDUAL
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  1. “Reserve choice”1 answers · often → FALLBACK
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  2. “Restate support”1 answers · often → REAFFIRM
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  3. “Restrictive”1 answers · often → LIMITING
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  4. “Rings around holes”1 answers · often → GROMMETS
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  5. “Routes of communication”1 answers · often → CHANNELS
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  6. “Row of tuned tubes”1 answers · often → PANPIPES
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Clues starting with S

  1. “Schoolyard game”1 answers · often → KICKBALL
    8 letters
  2. “Scraping or harsh”1 answers · often → ABRASIVE
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  3. “Seat escort duty”1 answers · often → USHERING
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  4. “Select carefully”1 answers · often → HANDPICK
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  5. “Settling an outcome”1 answers · often → DECISIVE
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  6. “Shared secretly”1 answers · often → CONFIDED
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  7. “Shore location”1 answers · often → LAKESIDE
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  8. “Slow delay”1 answers · often → DALLYING
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  9. “Small data unit”1 answers · often → KILOBYTE
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  10. “Small sticky fruit”1 answers · often → JAMBERRY
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  11. “Small stuffed turnover”1 answers · often → PIROZHKI
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  12. “Small vessel flutes”1 answers · often → OCARINAS
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  13. “Soft sweet dishes”1 answers · often → PUDDINGS
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  1. “Sour tropical pod”1 answers · often → TAMARIND
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  2. “Special stress”1 answers · often → EMPHASIS
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  3. “Spherical fungus”1 answers · often → PUFFBALL
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  4. “Spotted tiles”1 answers · often → DOMINOES
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  5. “Spread from roll”1 answers · often → UNFURLED
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  6. “Starchy cooking banana”1 answers · often → PLANTAIN
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  7. “Start off”1 answers · often → COMMENCE
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  8. “Stated plainly”1 answers · often → EXPLICIT
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  9. “Steam-shaped timber”1 answers · often → BENTWOOD
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  10. “Summoned to meet”1 answers · often → CONVOKED
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  11. “Supplies held back”1 answers · often → RESERVES
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  12. “Sweet cake coat”1 answers · often → FROSTING
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  13. “Sweet soy glaze”1 answers · often → TERIYAKI
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Clues starting with T

  1. “Table mats for glasses”1 answers · often → COASTERS
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  2. “Taste profiles”1 answers · often → FLAVOURS
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  3. “Ten to the twelfth”1 answers · often → TRILLION
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  4. “Terse and clear”1 answers · often → SUCCINCT
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  5. “Think deeply”1 answers · often → MEDITATE
    8 letters
  6. “Thought probable”1 answers · often → EXPECTED
    8 letters
  1. “Thousands of thousands”1 answers · often → MILLIONS
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  2. “Threadlike roundworm”1 answers · often → NEMATODE
    8 letters
  3. “Tiny holder for sticks”1 answers · often → MATCHBOX
    8 letters
  4. “Tiresome bother”1 answers · often → NUISANCE
    8 letters
  5. “Tree-grove plantings”1 answers · often → ORCHARDS
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  6. “Trumpet spring flower”1 answers · often → DAFFODIL
    8 letters

Clues starting with U

  1. “Uneaten remainder”1 answers · often → LEFTOVER
    8 letters

Clues starting with V

  1. “Vast in scale”1 answers · often → COLOSSAL
    8 letters
  1. “Velvety upholstery cloth”1 answers · often → MOQUETTE
    8 letters

Clues starting with W

  1. “Warm aromatic spice”1 answers · often → CARDAMOM
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  2. “Went down or refused”1 answers · often → DECLINED
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  3. “With covering removed”1 answers · often → STRIPPED
    8 letters
  1. “With energy”1 answers · often → ACTIVELY
    8 letters
  2. “Woven cloth rim”1 answers · often → SELVEDGE
    8 letters

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