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Crossword Answers

2 letters

MO
A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union

3 letters

INA

ORT

DAB
A light touch or stroke

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

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"

ACT
Something that people do or cause to happen

4 letters

TURN
Get by buying and selling; "the company turned a good profit after a year"

SPOT
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

BITE
A portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"

CHIP
The act of chipping something

MITE
Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

ORNE

DRIB
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling

ATOM
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

SNIP
The act of clipping or snipping

IOTA
The 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

PART
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"

5 letters

TRACE
A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

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

TASTE
Have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg"

TINGE
A pale or subdued color

SPECK
A very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

SHRED
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

SCRAP
A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left"

CRUMB
A very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

PIECE
Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

OUNCE
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound

FLAKE
A crystal of snow

FLECK
A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"

6 letters

MINUTE
Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"

SNATCH
The act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion"

NUMBER
Enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"

MORSEL
A small quantity of anything; "a morsel of paper was all he needed"

SMIDGE
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

PECKED

MOMENT
A turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)

SECOND
The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield

NIPPED

7 letters

CHOMPED

SNAPPED

SNIPPET
A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)

DRILLER

SECTION
The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

SMIDGEN
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

ROUTINE
An unvarying or habitual method or procedure

NIBBLED

PORTION
The allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians"

8 letters

FRAGMENT
A broken piece of a brittle artifact

PARTICLE
A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs

FRACTION
A small part or item forming a piece of a whole

9 letters

FELLFORIT

COMPONENT
An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"

SCINTILLA
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

10 letters

SMATTERING
A slight or superficial understanding of a subject

FAIRAMOUNT

11 letters

BINARYDIGIT
Either 0 or 1 in binary notation