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Clothes May Be Spared Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is DRAPES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

• the manner in which fabric hangs or falls

• a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination

verb

• arrange in a particular way

• place casually

• cover as if with clothing

• cover or dress loosely with cloth

31%3 It may be spared
noun

• a long thin implement made of metal or wood

• any rod-shaped bacterium

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light

• a gangster's pistol

31%9 Killer spared the rod, initially, by one who may use it
noun

• an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree

• someone who kills by strangling

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