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Crossword Answers

3 letters

JAM
A dense crowd of people

ACE
A serve that the receiver is unable to reach

4 letters

PULP
The soft inner part of a tooth

MASH
Mixture of ground animal feeds

RUIN
Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

BEAT
The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

CRAM
Prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

5 letters

QUASH
Put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

HORDE
A nomadic community

SMASH
Humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

SHELL
The hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

GRIND
The act of grinding to a powder or dust

PRESS
A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead

CREAM
Toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

CROWD
An informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

6 letters

PUMMEL
Strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"

SQUASH
A game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

CRUNCH
The act of crushing

7 letters

SQUELCH
An electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise

BEATOUT
Beat out a rhythm

TROUNCE
Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

OPPRESS
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"

FLATTEN
Lower the pitch of (musical notes)

REPRESS
Conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

SQUEEZE
The act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space; "getting through that small opening was a tight squeeze"

TRAMPLE
The sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet"

STOMPON

8 letters

COMPRESS
Squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

CALFLOVE
Temporary love of an adolescent

SUPPRESS
Reduce the incidence or severity of or stop; "suppress a yawn"; "this drug can suppress the hemorrhage"

VANQUISH
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

DEMOLISH
Humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

9 letters

BREAKDOWN
The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"

PUPPYLOVE
Temporary love of an adolescent

PULVERIZE
Become powder or dust; "When it was blown up, the building powderized"

OVERWHELM
Charge someone with too many tasks

OVERPOWER
Overcome by superior force

10 letters

ANNIHILATE
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

COMPACTION
The act of crushing

11 letters

STEAMROLLER
Make level or flat with a steamroller; "steamroll the roads"

INFATUATION
An object of extravagant short-lived passion

14 letters

CRUSHEDLEATHER
Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated