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noun • (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant • a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn • material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing • a short U-shaped wire nail • paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together adjective satellite • necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities verb • secure or fasten with a staple or staples | ||||||||
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noun • a small group of indispensable persons or things • an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality • the center of an object • the central part of the Earth • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience • a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill • the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work • (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories • the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place • a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil verb • remove the core or center from | ||||||||
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noun • an abstract part of something • an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system • any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter • the most favorable environment for a plant or animal • one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe • the situation in which you are happiest and most effective • a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone | ||||||||
Basic Element Crossword Clue
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STAPLE which was last seen in the The Guardian Speedy crossword.
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STAPLE
Updated: October 15, 2023
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