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Abandon The Thread Crossword Clue

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noun

• a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole

• a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels

• line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable

• a necklace made by stringing objects together

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)

verb

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

• drive (a vessel) ashore

• bring to the ground

25%10 Requires a top thread and a bobbin thread
noun

• machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread

25%9Thread-producing or thread-forming
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The Guardian Cryptic10 May 2005 Across 17
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