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1 | 99% | 4 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 28% | 6 | Result could be "distinction" | |
3 | 19% | 4 | Forename of the air-pump inventor who believed Earth was as light as a feather and demonstrated that his copper Magdeburg hemispheres could create such a vacuum that 16 horses could not pull them apart | |
Athletic Distinction Could Be 18 Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "BLUE" which means:
- noun
- • Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- • Blue clothing
- • Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- • The sky as viewed during daylight
- • Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- • The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- • Any of numerous small butterflies of the family lycaenidae adjective satellite
- • Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- • Used to signify the union forces in the american civil war (who wore blue uniforms)
- • Filled with melancholy and despondency
- • Characterized by profanity or cursing
- • Suggestive of sexual impropriety
- • Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- • Morally rigorous and strict
- • Causing dejection verb
- • Turn blue adjective
- • Of the colour blue.
- • Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- • Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
- • Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
- • Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- • (of steak) extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- • (of a dog or cat) having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- • Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
- • (of women) literary; bluestockinged.
- • Having a color charge of blue.
- • (entertainment) risque or obscene
- • (entertainment) pornographic or profane.
An example sentence would be:
- • "I love wearing my blue dress to parties."
- • "The sky is a beautiful shade of blue today."
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The Guardian Cryptic21 Jul 2005 | Across 10 | |
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