Remit
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

PAY
Dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to"

4 letters

SEND
Assign to a station

5 letters

DEFER
Yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"

TABLE
A set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1"

MITRE
Joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner

ABATE
Make less active or intense

TIMER
A timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end

RELAX
Cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"

SCOPE
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

6 letters

CANCEL
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

SHELVE
Place on a shelf; "shelve books"

PAYFOR
Have as a guest; "I invited them to a restaurant"

REMAND
The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)

PUTOFF
A pretext for delay or inaction

7 letters

PUTOVER
Communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

SETBACK
Cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"

SLACKEN
Become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

FORGIVE
Absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"

8 letters

TRANSMIT
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"

SENDAWAY
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

TRANSFER
Transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"

DISPATCH
The act of sending off something

HOLDOVER
Something that has survived from the past; "a holdover from the sixties"; "hangovers from the 19th century"

POSTPONE
Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"

PROROGUE
Adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body

SENDBACK
Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

9 letters

REMISSION
The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

REMITMENT
(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)