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Nought In English Reading Writing And Arithmetic Must Be A Mistake Crossword Clue

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

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199%5Exact Match!
233%5Nought
333%4Nought

About This Clues Answer

We think the answer is "ERROR" which means:

    noun
  • • A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
  • • Inadvertent incorrectness
  • • A misconception resulting from incorrect information
  • • (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
  • • Departure from what is ethically acceptable
  • • (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
  • • Part of a statement that is not correct
  • verb
  • • To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
  • • To show or contain an error or fault.
  • • To err.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "There was an error in the calculation."
  • • "The error occurred when i tried to save the file."

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Telegraph Cryptic02 Aug 2024 Across 13
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