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Crossword Answers

4 letters

PAST
A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

5 letters

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"

SCENE
Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept; "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment"

6 letters

GROUND
The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface

7 letters

SETTING
Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

DESKTOP
The top of a desk

SCENERY
The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery"

8 letters

BACKDROP
Scenery hung at back of stage

DOWNPLAY
Understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

PLAYDOWN
Understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

9 letters

BACKCLOTH
Scenery hung at back of stage

16 letters

SCREENBACKGROUND
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

BACKGROUNDSIGNAL
Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"

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BACKGROUNDKNOWLEDGE
Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"