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noun • a special situation • an action • a special abstraction • an artifact • an event • a vaguely specified concern • a statement regarded as an object • an entity that is not named specifically • any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence • a special objective • a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion • a separate and self-contained entity | ||||||||
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noun • footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material • (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time • U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof • a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation verb • furnish with shoes | ||||||||
| 37% | 4 | Word originally for any creature living in water as opposed to a “beast of the field” or a “bird of the air”, later a more specific aquatic vertebrate, such as a minnow, salmon or trout | ||||||
noun • any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills • (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces • the flesh of fish used as food • the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20 verb • seek indirectly • catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | ||||||||
Word For Any Inanimate Object A Living Creature Or Informally A Love Affair Phobia Or Slight Obsession Crossword Clue
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THING which was last seen in the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword.
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THING
Updated: October 12, 2023
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A dark grey rain-cloud; an artistic representation of an aureole, gloriole, halo or luminous mist encircling an angel, deity or saint; or, any surrounding colour or lightFrom a word for “blue”, the cerulean-coloured mineral chessylite occurring in malachite, used as a pigment since Roman times
Culinary name for the meat from cattle traditionally served with Yorkshire pudding; human flesh when muscular; or, a gripe or grievance
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