Crossword Dictionary

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• Double clue, no wordplay

American

• Letters: US, USA

Apart

• Anagram
  • ten gems apart: segment

Around

• Insert letters into another word
  • root around shivering at first: roost

Arsenic

• Letters: AS

Back

• Reverse the letters
  • had to go back to: DAH

Badly

• Anagram:
  • badly want: TWAN

Briefly

• Abbreviate:
  • Saturday briefly: SAT

Can

• Letters: TIN, ISABLE

Complicated

• Anagram

Computer

• Letters: IT

Court

• Letters: CT, WOO

Daughter

• Letter: D

Edges

• First and last letters
  • boy edges: BY

Ends

• Letters from end of previous word

Finally

• Letters at end of word
  • resort, finally: T

First

• Take first letter of word
  • shivering at first: S

Flower

• Type of flower: fuchsia
• River:

Force

• Letters: G

Former lover

• Letters: EX

French

• Word in French
  • good French: bien

Gone

• Remove letters
  • Both ends of porch gone: orc

Hospital

• Letter: H

I

• Letter: I

Involves

• Insert letters into word

Island

• Letters: IS

Leader

• First letter
  • foreign leader: F

Loses

• Remove letters
  • Braille loses last two: BRAIL

Love

• Letter: O

Maybe

• Word is an example of the answer

Morning

• Letters: AM

No

• Remove letters

Old

• Letter: O

One

• Letter: I

Part

• Select middle letters from word or words
  • Shotgun is only part: unison

Poorly

• Anagram
  • rewiring one TV poorly: overwintering

Seed

• Chia

Sound

• Homophone
  • sound of wail: whale

Suspicious

• Anagram
  • bighead lodger suspicious: hard-boiled egg

Swimmer

• Type of fish or other aquatic creature

Time

• Letter: T

Two

• Repeat next letter twice