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Tricky Problem Crossword Clue

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

• a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not

• a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

• a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

98%6Exact Match!
noun

• a worker who teases wool

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• a device for teasing wool

97%4Exact Match!
noun

• a tight cluster of people or things

• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

verb

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

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Clue Last Found In...

Source #Number Answer
The Guardian Quick22 Jul 2006 Across 10
New York Times Bonus01 Oct 2005 Across 45
New York Times Bonus01 Oct 2005 Down 11
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