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We've checked our database and believe the answer is MISNOMER which was last seen in the Telegraph Cross Atlantic crossword.
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noun

• an incorrect or unsuitable name

40%4Incorrectly 1 across — come good briefly and incorrectly about holy book
noun

• the act of mocking or ridiculing

adjective satellite

• constituting a copy or imitation of something

verb

• treat with contempt

• imitate with mockery and derision

27%4 Word sometimes used incorrectly for "fewer"
adjective

• (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree

adverb

• used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is less of something

• comparative of little

adjective satellite

• (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality

• (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer

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Telegraph Cross Atlantic21 Mar 2024 Down 37
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