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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

TAD
A slight amount or degree of difference; "a tad too expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a shade better than the old one"

BIT
Piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding; "the horse was not accustomed to a bit"

4 letters

SIGN
A character indicating a relation between quantities; "don't forget the minus sign"

WISP
A small bundle of straw or hay

HINT
An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"

IOTA
The 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

DRAW
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his hooking"

LINE
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"

HUNT
The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

COPY
Matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials

FIND
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

5 letters

CATER
Supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets

HOUND
Any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

TINGE
A pale or subdued color

GHOST
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

TOUCH
The act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"

SHRED
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

6 letters

LOCATE
Take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"

FOLLOW
Travel along a certain course; "follow the road"; "follow the trail"

SHADOW
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

DERIVE
Develop or evolve from a latent or potential state

DETECT
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"

7 letters

IMPRINT
A device produced by pressure on a surface

SMIDGEN
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

ELEMENT
An abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

OUTLINE
A schematic or preliminary plan

TRACING
The discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies"

RETRACE
To go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"

SOUPCON
A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

WHISPER
Speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords

REMNANT
A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

VESTIGE
An indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"

8 letters

DECIPHER
Read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

DESCRIBE
To give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"

TINCTURE
(pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution

9 letters

DELINEATE
Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

10 letters

SUGGESTION
The act of inducing hypnosis

INDICATION
A datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"