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The Reason To Go Off Course In A Boat Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is WHERRY which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• sailing barge used especially in East Anglia

• light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors

26%15 Finding a logical or sensible reason for something that was initially done without reason
noun

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

• the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason

• (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation

• the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency

• systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale

26%13 Characteristic that evolves for one reason but later provides an advantage for another reason
noun

• An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function

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The Guardian Cryptic22 Oct 2012 Down 7
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