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noun • a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier • Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935) | ||||||||
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noun • an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code | ||||||||
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adjective satellite • having an upper part projecting beyond the lower | ||||||||
Short Bird Backing Composer Crossword Clue
There is 1 exact and 157 possible answers.
We've checked our database and believe the answer is
BERG which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is:
BERG
Updated: October 14, 2023
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| The Guardian Cryptic02 Feb 2015 | Across 10 | |
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1 | Composer's short and wrinkly, as composer
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16 Mar 2010 | The Guardian Cryptic / 16 Mar 2010 |
2 | Composer adds backing part to male solo
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11 Jun 2002 | The Guardian Cryptic / 11 Jun 2002 |
3 | Delight composer, backing virgin keeping quiet, finally
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28 May 2013 | The Guardian Cryptic / 28 May 2013 |
4 | Fell short of backing up | |
5 | Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short"
New York Times -
03 Apr 2024 | New York Times / 03 Apr 2024 |
6 | Miserable Les; no German holds with backing this composer
The Guardian Cryptic -
24 Sep 2003 | The Guardian Cryptic / 24 Sep 2003 |
7 | This composer's sister-in-law, Louise Bertin, was also a composer |
