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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

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NIL
A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

MAR
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"

RUB
The act of rubbing or wiping; "he gave the hood a quick rub"

ZIP
A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

4 letters

FLAW
An imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness

ITCH
A strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"

GELT
Informal terms for money

LOOT
Informal terms for money

PELF
Informal terms for money

DENT
An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it made a dent in my bank account"

SLIT
A long narrow opening

FRAY
A noisy fight

FRET
A small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

NICK
Mate successfully; of livestock

KALE
A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head

RASP
A coarse file with sharp pointed projections

CLAW
Sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

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"

SCAR
Mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"

5 letters

SCRUB
The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

START
A sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"

CLAMS
Informal terms for money

DOUGH
A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll

SCORE
A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang"

BREAD
Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

MOOLA

LOLLY
Informal terms for money

PRICK
The act of puncturing with a small point; "he gave the balloon a small prick"

SUGAR
A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative

LUCRE
Informal terms for money

CHAFE
Anger produced by some annoying irritation

GRAZE
The act of grazing

GRAVE
A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"

6 letters

COMEUP
Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

EXCISE
Remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"

STRIKE
A conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"

WAMPUM
Informal terms for money

DOREMI

DELETE
Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"

ABRADE
Wear away

MOOLAH
Informal terms for money

CANCEL
A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

SCRAPE
A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him"

DINERO
Informal terms for money

BOODLE
A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

SCRAWL
Poor handwriting

7 letters

CABBAGE
Informal terms for money

CALLOFF
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"

SHEKELS
Informal terms for money

LETTUCE
Leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa

EXPUNGE
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

ENGRAVE
Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

8 letters

INSCRIBE
Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record

SCRAPEUP
Gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"

SCRABBLE
A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game

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

ABRASION
The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

SCRIBBLE
Poor handwriting

SCRAPING
A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him"

9 letters

SCRATCHUP
Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

LONGGREEN

SIMOLEONS
Informal terms for money

10 letters

CACOGRAPHY
Poor handwriting

SCRATCHING
A harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"

11 letters

CHICKENFEED
Dry mash for poultry

SCRATCHLINE
A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

EXCORIATION
Severe censure

12 letters

STARTINGLINE
A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game