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Effective Orders Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is TELLING which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: TELLING

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199%7Exact Match!
227%13 Prevalence of sell orders over buy orders
327%12 Illegal practice of a broker executing orders on a security for its own account while taking advantage of advance knowledge of pending orders from its customers

About This Clues Answer

We think the answer is "TELLING" which means:

    noun
  • • An act of narration
  • • Informing by words
  • • Disclosing information or giving evidence about another
  • adjective satellite
  • • Disclosing unintentionally something concealed
  • • Powerfully persuasive
  • • Producing a strong effect
  • verb
  • • (archaic outside of idioms) to count, reckon, or enumerate.
  • • To narrate.
  • • To convey by speech; to say.
  • • To instruct or inform.
  • • To order; to direct, to say to someone.
  • • To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  • • To reveal.
  • • To be revealed.
  • • To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
  • • To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
  • • To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
  • • (authorship) to reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
  • adjective
  • • Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective.
  • • Revealing information; bearing significance.
  • • Serving to convince.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "Her telling tone indicated that she was not happy with the situation."
  • • "The telling pause in his speech revealed his uneasiness."

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The Guardian Cryptic03 Nov 2005 Down 7
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