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1 | 99% | 4 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 25% | 4 | Stop or cause to stop making progress | |
3 | 23% | 7 | Seabird said to draw blood from its own breast with its pouched beak to feed its young, thus a symbol of self-sacrifice and motherly love to the nation co-opted for Elizabeth I | |
Stop Its A Hold Up Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "STEM" which means:
- noun
- • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- • A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- • Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- • The tube of a tobacco pipe
- • Front part of a vessel or aircraft
- • A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it verb
- • Grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- • Cause to point inward
- • Stop the flow of a liquid
- • Remove the stem from
An example sentence would be:
- • "The flowers had long, slender stems."
- • "He broke the stem off his wine glass."
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The Guardian Cryptic27 Feb 2017 | Down 24 | |
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