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2 | 33% | 14 | People who adopt or pretend to adopt a particular attitude or view | |
3 | 30% | 5 | Yellowish dried natural fibre | |
Convenient To Adopt Unsuitable Name For Fibre Crossword Clue
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About This Clues Answer
We think the answer is "FILAMENT" which means:
- noun
- • A very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- • The stalk of a stamen
- • A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- • A thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
An example sentence would be:
- • "She carefully replaced the filament in the light bulb."
- • "The spider spun a delicate filament to build its web."
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The Guardian Cryptic04 Mar 2022 | Across 8 | |
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