--- - Crossword Clue

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue ---.

8 letter answer(s) to ---

APERTURE
  1. a device that controls amount of light admitted
  2. a natural opening in something
  3. an man-made opening; usually small
  4. Vent
CRACKERS
  1. a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
  2. a poor White person in the southern United States
  3. a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers"
  4. a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
  5. firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
  6. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband barmy"

5 letter answer(s) to ---

BORNE
  1. be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"
  2. behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
  3. bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"
  4. bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"
  5. cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!"
  6. contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"
  7. have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"
  8. have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"
  9. have; "bear a resemblance"; "bear a signature"
  10. move while holding up or suppo
RAKES
  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  2. a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
  3. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"
  4. examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  5. gather with a rake; "rake leaves"
  6. level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel"
  7. move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair"
  8. scrape gently; "graze the skin"
  9. sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast"
SCOOT
  1. run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"

4 letter answer(s) to ---

EDIT
  1. cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
  2. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
  3. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
  4. Revise
  5. supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
ICEE
IDEA
  1. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
  2. a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
  3. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"
  4. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
  5. your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"
ROWS
  1. (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"
  2. a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"
  3. a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side
  4. a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"
  5. an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
  6. an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; "a row of chairs"
  7. Created a noisy squabble
  8. propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"
  9. the act of rowing as a sport
SEND
  1. assign to a station
  2. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"
  3. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  4. cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
  5. cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
  6. to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"
  7. transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
  8. transport commercially

6 letter answer(s) to ---

ISLAND
  1. a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
  2. a zone or area resembling an island
STATUS
  1. a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
  2. the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"

7 letter answer(s) to ---

SADDLES
  1. a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
  2. a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
  3. a seat for the rider of a bicycle
  4. a seat for the rider of a horse or camel
  5. cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
  6. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
  7. load or burden; encumber; "he saddled me with that heavy responsibility"
  8. posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
  9. put a saddle on; "saddle the horses"
SUNRISE
  1. atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun
  2. of an industry or technology; new and developing; "high-technology sunrise industries"
  3. the daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
  4. the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

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"What's the ___?!"
"You have no ___!"
"You have no ___"
'No Man is an ___ ’
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1/5 could be what 29/19 didn't want (right in middle of action)
A cheeky runner creating opening
A saucy virgin doesn't open mouth
Abided
Abridge, maybe
Abstraction
Add or delete, say
Aisles
Almost perfect vision
Alter pieces?
Amend
American taken by fresh flower's opening
Arguments got louder, as we hear
Assist a writer
Assistant's first to get to the bottom of plan
Authenticate each plan
Bananas, biscuits and bangers
Bangers, nuts and bananas not all there
Basic desire for one belief
Be a People person?
Bean concoction?
Bean product?
Bean sprout?
Better copy
Better papers?
Big autumn sellers
Big name in frozen confec
Biscuits or nuts
Biscuits, nuts and bananas
Biscuits; fireworks
Bit of planning
Blue-pencil
Bowdlerize, with "out"
Brain matter?
Brain popper
Brain wave
Brainchild
Brainstorm
Brainwave
Brainwave regularly featuring in middle ear
Briefly declare American position
Bright thought
Broadcast
Camera opening
Carried
Carried, conveyed
Casino equipment
Casino gear
Caught in black stuff? Run!
Cause to go
Cell phone button
Cell-phone button
Censor
Censor's current turnover
Change (text)
Change a sentence, say
Change course, heading north
Change in current switched over
Change in speed, I think
Change poor diet
Change that comes with flow of water receding
Change the wording of
Change when course of events goes the wrong way
Change, as text
Check articles etc. translated: Italian features
Check flow of water ebbing
Check Sitwell after leaving hospital
Check text for publication
Child of invention?
Christmas items
Christmas or Easter, eg
Class, say, mostly American
Clean rags?
Clever thought
Coconut yield?
Column crossers
Comic-strip light bulb
Common advertising sellin
Computer menu option
Concept
Concept everyone associated at first with papers
Conception
Concern of some reports
Condition of affairs
Correct copy
Correct European parliament, we finally having departed
Correct info on part of Morse alphabet
Correct, in a way
Correct, somewhat vindicated I thought
Crack
Crazy money? It's on credit!
Creative spark
Croupiers' gear
Croupiers' tools
Cuba or Aruba
Cuba, e.g.
Current ebbing for a change
Cut and paste
Cut and paste, e.g.
Cut and paste, say
Cut down, maybe
Cut for a column
Cut, as film
Cut, maybe
Cut, say
Daily event
Daily occurrence
Dart
Database command
Dawn
Dawn French article boring English teacher's turned up
Dawn insures building
Dawn run unfortunately is limited by a lot of sex
Decide against boxing plan
Designer's need
Detached piece of land
Dispatch
Dissolute men — they get into scrapes
Do desk work at a newspap
Do galley work
Do magazine work
Do newspaper work
Do some copy work
Do some cutting, maybe
Do Time?
Dome light?
Drinking last of ale, Hoskins had a thought!
Drunken lads in Ibiza, for example
E-mail command
E-mail option
E-mail, e.g.
E-mailer's option
Easter, e.g.
Edison product
Eg, Borneo
Eg, eyot or inch
Eg, Jersey
Eg, Sardinia or Java
Emend a text
Endured
English teacher and students getting up when day breaks
Enrapture
Erupt violently, punching 100 square metres to make hole
Essay's basis
Exchange words?
Excite
Export
Expunge, with "out"
Fancy
Fancy secretary, wanting introduction later
Fantasy
Fax
Fax button
Fax function
Fax or FedEx
Fax, say
Fedex, e.g.
Feeling somewhat wide awake
Figures capturing university’s position in table?
Finally! Music diva learns perfect pitch
Fine-tune, as a script
Fix up, as text
Fix, as copy
Flash
Flash of inspiration
Forward
Forward's goal topped by striker's header
Foulness, perhaps, of diesel banned at regular intervals
Fresh water in Yorkshire? Start with a hole
Frozen beverage brand
Frozen drink brand
Furniture store with department covering Kelvin's proposal
Game plan
Gap in a lively river
Garden divisions
Garden tools
Gathers leaves
Genesis of an invention
Get a move on
Get copy right
Get to work on Time
Get to work on Time?
Gets worse - holds up banks
Give Life support?
Glimmering
Go over proofs
Go quickly
Go to work on Time?
Grid parts
Guess
Hack computers to alter copy?
Handle text
Has the oars
Head light?
Head piece?
Held up
Hightail it
Hole
Hole in a tree, right up high
Hole in one? A true shot
Hoskins would start to examine answer to make clue
Hotfoot it
Hurry
I state "lives must take precedence"
I’d put in note reflecting change
Imagine that
Importance of data around university
Importance of fact to America?
Importance of figures executor initially concealed
Impression Brummie had drink? No time!
Improve by cutting what you eat, putting energy first
Information about university rank
Initially, is doctor elated at result of brain operation?
Inkling
Inspiration
Invention starter
Inventive thought
Inventor's start
Inventor's starting point
Isolated feature in the main is secure
It comes to mind
It has a germ
It makes a brief appearance when one snaps
It may be bright
It may be fixed
It might make you say "Ah
It pops into the head
It's a thought
It's just a thought
Items pulled, unhinged
Just a thought
Just think of it
Key religion has money taken away by North Dakota
Kind of menu
Knight returning with another, coming in to go to court first thing
Landscapers' tools
Leaves very quickly brushing off sheep tick burdens
Light bulb's significatio
Light bulb, figuratively
Light bulb, in cartoons
Light limiter
Loathing one on benefit in North America
Mad for biscuits
Mail
Make a change for the ver
Make a long story short?
Make changes (to text)
Make changes to
Make changes to (text)
Make changes to start of document in connection with revolution
Make rhapsodic
Make shorter, say
Make the cut?
Mallorca, say, I malign without hesitation
Man maybe is joined by boy around November
Man, for example, lives on solid earth
Man, perhaps, is 50+?
Man, say
Man, say, is new in embrace of woman, mostly
Mark up
Martha's Vineyard, e.g.
Matter for the gray matte
Maybe gathers weeds from slopes
Melees
Mental flash
Mental image
Microsoft Word option
Middleman regularly revealing plan
Might they produce tears or tiers?
Mince words?
Modify
Montreal, for one
Move (over)
Move text around
Narcos providing support for one proposal
Narrow opening
Noises from 19th group back?
Noisy fights
Noisy to-dos
Noodle concoction
Noodle concoction?
Noodle product?
Not leave alone
Notion
Notion inspiring delegates, executives and leaders
Notion, one almost gone
Numerical data about university ranking
Nurses treated current stabbing early in the day
Nuts and biscuits
Nutty biscuits
Nutty, fruity biscuits not all there
On reflection, crossword has them
One mostly loved thought
One with fifty occupying beach, say, in Ibiza?
One's left with kitchen unit
One's secure getting key
One's son acquires northern part of archipelago
Opening
Opening a fresh source of water in Yorkshire
Opening here for a photographer
Opening time in a country bar came at last
Opening, gap
Opening, hole
Optical opening
Original thought
Paddles
Papers about type of speech not entirely found in Cyprus?
Pare, say
Part of many a chain
Part of revised item ready for publication
Patent prerequisite
PC menu heading
Perform copy desk work
Perhaps key is put down
Piece of mind?
Piece of one's mind?
Plan almost perfect
Plan in principle getting cut down
Plan inside army barracks
Plan of action
Plan that’s not quite perfect
Plows follow them
Plums and biscuits
Polish
Polish area of Shoreditch
Polish detective in film
Polish duke in twisted relationship
Polish film, e.g.
Polish language
Political assistant’s first to drop plan
Popular vacation spot
Position
Position - prestige
Position figures around university
Position in society
Position of rubbish in South America
Position university maintained in figures
Possible solution
Post
Post card, perhaps, where ultimately no love's lost within
Prelude to a solution
Prepare
Prepare (text) for publication
Prepare copy
Prepare for publication
Prepare text for press
Prepare to put out with the rising tide
Prepare to run
Prestige
Prince Edward, e.g.
Propels a dinghy
Proposal
Purpose
Put in or take out
Put in or take out, maybe
Raised energy in regime change
Rank
Rank and file
Rank figure, American
Rank shabby material in South America
Rank suspicion about cheap stuff
Ranking data about university
Ready for print
Ready for release
Rearrange, say
Reason to shout "Eureka!"
Rebuild ruins in the Home Counties for star's first appearance of the day
Redo, as text
Reduce a sentence, perhap
Relative social standing
Rephrase
Resistance shown by wife during massive arguments
Review a review, say
Revise
Revise a text
Revise copy
Revise text
Revision, informally
Reword
Rework
Rework a document
Rework proofs
Rework script of Spielberg classic to include tragic princess
Rework, as stories
Rewrite
Rewrite text
Riders' seats
Rise in current is correct
Rising flood is to make changes here?
Run
Saki penned satire, ultimately a source of inspiration
Salon job, informally
Scram!
Scraps
Sculls
Second of three equal parts in premeditated corrective action
Seconds before bird's sudden dash
Serve Time?
Sets of pews
Ship
Shorten, in a way
Shorten, say
Shouldered
Situation
Skedaddle
SLIPUP
Slush Puppie alternative
Small ape
Small bird is to leave pronto
Small bird’s run quickly
Sneaking suspicion
Social climber's concern
Social climber's goal
Social position - prestige
Social standing
Society goes off taxes
Solvers are excellent people
Something that can't be p
Something to think about
Spreadsheet components
St. John, e.g.
Standing
Standing stone tops American tours regularly
Start of a plan
Start of a plea
Start of an invention
Start of something big?
Step after "write"
Stirring time?
Suggestion
Suggestion assistant should postpone article
Suggestion less than perfect
Summer cooler
Supported
Switch lines, say?
Take out or put in, e.g.
Take out, maybe
Tasteless articles looking into South American's importance in society
Tear out
Telegraph, say
Tetris objectives
Text messaging command
The "I" of Canada's P.E.I
The light bulb, to Edison
The very notion
Theater seating
Theory
Theory's start
Thesis basis
Think about it
Think of it!
Think piece?
Think tank nugget
Think tank output
Think tank product
Thought
Thought almost perfect
Thought Gide gag no good at all
Thought India deal almost complete
Thought Picaroon gives people a hand, briefly
Thought setter would worry endlessly
Thought to be perfect but coming up short?
Thrill
Tidy up, in a way
Tighten the writin'?
Time manager's directive?
Time of full daylight
Time to go back and prepare for publication
Tinker with, in a way
Tools with teeth
Touch up
Touch up, as text
Touch up, in a way
Transmit
Transmit; post
Transport
Transported
Trial balloon, e.g.
Trim to fit
Trim to fit, maybe
Trim, as text
Turn over fish, then time to take out rubbish?
University put in figures showing prestige
Unsweetened biscuits
Upright character smooth enrolling student for Easter?
Use a word processor, may
Use Western Union, e.g.
Uses oars
Variable-sized hole in a camera
View model scratching bottom
Walkie-talkie button
Westward course is correct
What comes to mind
What's in your head, if not entirely wide awake
Where across clues are creating arguments
Win race by one second in 2 9?
Word with symbol or seeke
Work for Hearst, e.g.
Work in the cutting room
Work in the media
Work on film, perhaps - Director involved in return of Bond
Work on People
Work on, in a way
Work over Time
Yap, for one, in the west
_empty_
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