Quality
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

2 letters

AL
A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

3 letters

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

AIR
Travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air"

CUT
With parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

DYE
Color with dye; "Please dye these shoes"

HUE
Suffuse with color

ILK
A kind of person; "We'll not see his like again"; "I can't tolerate people of his ilk"

TIC
A local and habitual twitching especially in the face

WAY
A journey or passage; "they are on the way"

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BREW
Sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing"

CAST
A violent throw

FEEL
Manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure; "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"

FINE
Money extracted as a penalty

FUME
Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

FUNK
An earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

GUST
A strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"

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

KIND
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"

LUST
Self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

MARK
Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull's eye"; "hit the mark"; "the president's speech was a home run"

MOLD
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens

NOTE
Observe with care or pay close attention to; "Take note of this chemical reaction"

ODOR
Any property detected by the olfactory system

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"

RANK
The body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"

ROLE
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"

SALT
Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

SEAL
A device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents

SEEP
Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

SORT
A person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"

SOUR
Having a sharp biting taste

TANG
Any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria

TYPE
A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"

VEIN
A layer of ore between layers of rock

ZEST
A tart spicy quality

AURA
A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance"

TONE
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

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TRAIT
A distinguishing feature of your personal nature

PRIME
A number that has no factor but itself and 1

PRIZE
To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"

ARETE
A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains

AROMA
Any property detected by the olfactory system

BADGE
An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.); "they checked everyone's badge before letting them in"

BIRTH
The process of giving birth

BLOOD
The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"

BRAND
A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

CLASS
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"

COLOR
Change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"

DOUSE
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"

ELITE
Selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"

ETHOS
(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era; "the Greek ethos"

FANCY
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

FIBER
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

FIBRE
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

FRAME
One of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided

GRACE
(Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence; "the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin"; "it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church"; "the Virgin lived in a state of grace"

GRADE
The gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road had a steep grade"

GRAIN
The smallest possible unit of anything; "there was a grain of truth in what he said"; "he does not have a grain of sense"

HABIT
An established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening"

HUMOR
A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

IMBUE
Suffuse with color

INDEX
Adjust through indexation; "The government indexes wages and prices"

LAPUP
Take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

MAPLE
Any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

MERIT
The quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"

MOULD
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens

ODOUR
Any property detected by the olfactory system

PLACE
An abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"

POINT
A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

QUIRK
A strange attitude or habit

SALSA
Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods

SAPOR

SAUCE
Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"

SAVOR
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

SCENT
Any property detected by the olfactory system

SENSE
Sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

SHAPE
The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"

SMACK
The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

SMELL
Have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism"

SOUND
The subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"

SPICE
Any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food

SPOOR
The trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game; "the hounds followed the fox's spoor"

STAMP
A device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents

STATE
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"

STEEP
Of a slope; set at a high angle; "note the steep incline"; "a steep roof sheds snow"

STYLE
Designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"

SWEET
The property of tasting as if it contains sugar

TAINT
The state of being contaminated

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

TENOR
A settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

TINGE
A pale or subdued color

TOKEN
Something of sentimental value

TOOTH
Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

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

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

TRAIL
Evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

TRICK
(card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

VALUE
Hold dear; "I prize these old photographs"

WHIFF
Drive or carry as if by a puff of air; "The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"

WORTH
The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful