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Unnecessary Pointers On End Of Compass Crossword Clue

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99%8Exact Match!
adjective satellite

• unnecessary and unwarranted

45%11Pointers or pointers
noun

• something that serves to indicate or suggest

• the act of indicating or pointing out by name

• (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure

• something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary

• a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

24%8 Designating the upper or top end of a compass
adjective

• in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

• situated in regions of the north

noun

• a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans

adjective satellite

• oriented toward the north

• coming from the north; used especially of wind

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