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Some Solace In Failed Investment Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is RELIEF which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

• the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)

• (law) redress awarded by a court

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• assistance in time of difficulty

• a pause for relaxation

• a change for the better

• aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background

• the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged

32%4Failed investment
noun

• something that is lost

• gradual decline in amount or activity

• the act of losing someone or something

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• the experience of losing a loved one

• the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

• military personnel lost by death or capture

• euphemistic expressions for death

27%6 Term used to describe a failed enterprise or investment
noun

• large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

• a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923

• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

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