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Implicit Quality Of Public Units Crossword Clue

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

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199%9Exact Match!
228%12 The quality of being implicit rather than explicit
327%6 International organisation's help is implicit

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We think the answer is "OVERTONES" which means:

    noun
  • • (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality
  • • A harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
  • verb
  • • To give an overtone to.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "The music had dark overtones that added a sense of mystery."
  • • "Her words carried subtle racial overtones that offended many people."

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The Guardian Cryptic09 Jan 2019 Down 7
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