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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

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

AIM
The action of directing something at an object; "he took aim and fired"

THE

4 letters

ATAN

DEAD
People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

TONO

DUSK
The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

CODA
The closing section of a musical composition

DOIN
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

TAIL
The posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

STEW
Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

USER
A person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically

REAR
The side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"

STOP
A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"

WRAP
Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

GOAL
A successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play"

LAST
Coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining; "the last time I saw Paris"; "the last day of the month"; "had the last word"; "waited until the last minute"; "he raised his voice in a last supreme call"; "the last game of the season"; "down to his last nickel"

DOOM
An unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"

HALT
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"

HEEL
The lower end of a ship's mast

BUTT
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

KILL
The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

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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"

DEATH
The act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"

CLOSE
The concluding part of any performance

ANODE
A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device

SEVER
Set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"

CEASE
Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

FINIS
The concluding part of any performance

FINAL
An examination administered at the end of an academic term

LANDS

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WRAPUP
Clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!"

CANCEL
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

OBJECT
A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"

TARGET
Sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

DESIST
Choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

RESULT
A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places"

DEMISE
The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

FINISH
The act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"

ENDING
The act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"

PERIOD
A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"

BORDER
A strip forming the outer edge of something; "the rug had a wide blue border"

UPSHOT
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"

WINDUP
A concluding action

EXPIRE
Expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"

FINALE
The concluding part of any performance

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QUIETUS
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

LINEMAN
(American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage

OUTCOME
Something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio"

DESTROY
Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

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

CLOSING
A concluding action

ODDMENT
Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

CLOSURE
Termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center"

EXTREME
The furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"

ABOLISH
Do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

PURPOSE
An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs"

SUSPEND
Cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"

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

HOWARDS

8 letters

BUSINESS
Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"

BOUNDARY
The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

CONCLUDE
Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"

TERMINAL
Being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable"

DISSOLVE
(film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out

COMPLETE
Complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties"

ABROGATE
Revoke formally

EPILOGUE
A short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters"

TERMINUS
Either end of a railroad or bus route

ULTIMATE
Being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"

RECEIVER
Set that receives radio or tv signals

STOPPAGE
The act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"

BANKRUPT
Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

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OBJECTIVE
The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed

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

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

CESSATION
A stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"

INTENTION
An act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out; "my intention changed once I saw her"

CULMINATE
Reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body

ELIMINATE
Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"

EXTREMITY
That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso

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ASPIRATION
The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

CONCLUSION
The temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"

FINALSTAGE
The concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"

ARMAGEDDON
(New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world

DENOUEMENT
The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

CONSUMMATE
Make perfect; bring to perfection

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CONSEQUENCE
The outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual

CULMINATION
A concluding action

DISCONTINUE
Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

FULFILLMENT
The act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc)

TERMINATION
The act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"

DESTRUCTION
The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

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ANNIHILATION
Destruction by annihilating something