Tuesday, July 14, 2026

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• citric6

  citric

  adjective — Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• clot1

  clot

  noun — A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

  verb — To form a clot or mass.

  noun — A solidified mass of any liquid.

  noun — A silly person.

  verb — To cause to clot or form into a mass.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• colt1

  colt

  noun — A young male horse.

  verb — To horse; to get with young.

  noun — A young crane (bird).

  noun — A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

  noun — A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

  noun — A young camel or donkey.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• coot1

  coot

  noun — Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.

  noun — A foolish or eccentric fellow

  noun — (with the) A success; something excellent.

  noun — Body louse (Pediculus humanus).

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• critic6

  critic

  noun — A person who appraises the works of others.

  verb — To criticise.

  noun — The art of criticism.

  noun — A specialist in judging works of art.

  noun — One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

  noun — An opponent.

  Appeared in 5 recorded puzzles.

• illicit7

  illicit

  noun — A banned or unlawful item.

  adjective — Not approved by law, but not invalid.

  adjective — Breaking social norms.

  adjective — Unlawful.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• licit5

  licit

  adjective — Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.

  adjective — Explicitly established or constituted by law.

  Appeared in 8 recorded puzzles.

• lilt1

  lilt

  noun — A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.

  noun — Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.

  noun — A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

  verb — To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.

  verb — To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.

  verb — To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• loot1

  loot

  noun — A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

  noun — The act of plundering.

  verb — To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.

  noun — Plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.

  noun — Any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents

  noun — Items dropped by defeated enemies.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• lotto5

  lotto

  noun — A game of chance similar to bingo

  noun — A lottery

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• riot1

  riot

  noun — Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

  verb — To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

  noun — The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

  noun — A wide and unconstrained variety.

  noun — Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

  verb — To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• root1

  root

  noun — The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.

  verb — To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

  noun — An act of sexual intercourse.

  verb — To turn up or dig with the snout.

  verb — (with "for" or "on") To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

  noun — A root vegetable.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• roti1

  roti

  noun — A kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• rotor5

  rotor

  noun — A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.

  noun — The wing of a helicopter or similar aircraft.

  noun — A quantity having magnitude, direction and position.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• rototill8

  rototill

  verb — To break up and turn soil using a rototiller.

  verb — To make extensive and pervasive changes to a piece of code without altering its functionality.

• till1

  till

  preposition — Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).

  conjunction — Until, until the time that.

  noun — A cash register.

  noun — A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

  noun — The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.

  verb — To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• tilt1

  tilt

  verb — To slope or incline (something); to slant.

  verb — To be at an angle.

  noun — A slope or inclination.

  noun — The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

  verb — To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

  noun — The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.

  Appeared in 20 recorded puzzles.

• toil1

  toil

  noun — Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

  verb — To labour; work.

  noun — Trouble, strife.

  noun — (usually in plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

  verb — To struggle.

  verb — To work (something); often with out.

  Appeared in 10 recorded puzzles.

• toll1

  toll

  noun — Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

  verb — To impose a fee for the use of.

  noun — The act or sound of tolling

  verb — To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.

  verb — To draw; pull; tug; drag.

  verb — To take away; to vacate; to annul.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• tool1

  tool

  noun — A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.

  verb — To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

  noun — Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.

  noun — Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

  noun — A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

  noun — A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.

  Appeared in 14 recorded puzzles.

• toot1

  toot

  noun — The noise of a horn or whistle.

  verb — To stand out, or be prominent.

  noun — A toilet.

  noun — (by extension) A fart; flatus.

  noun — Cocaine.

  noun — A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.

  Appeared in 28 recorded puzzles.

• tori1

  tori

  noun — A topological space which is a product of two circles.

  noun — One who executes a technique against the training partner, or uke.

  noun — The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut.

  noun — (in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.

  noun — A molding which projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.

  noun — The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached; receptacle, thalamus.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• toric5

  toric

  adjective — Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• torii5

  torii

  noun — A traditional Japanese gate at Shinto shrines, symbolically marking the transition from the profane to the sacred.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• toro1

  toro

  noun — A traditional Japanese lantern.

  noun — Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• tort1

  tort

  noun — An injury or wrong.

  adjective — Tart; sharp.

  adjective — Stretched tight; taut.

  noun — A tortoise.

  noun — A tortoiseshell (animal with coloured markings on fur).

  noun — A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• tricolor8

  tricolor

  adjective — Having three colors.

  noun — A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal; all of equal size, and of a different colour each.

• tricot6

  tricot

  noun — A soft knit fabric.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• trill5

  trill

  noun — A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.

  verb — To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

  verb — To trickle.

  verb — To twirl.

  noun — A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish rr.

  noun — A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

  Appeared in 3 recorded puzzles.

• trio1

  trio

  noun — A group of three people or things.

  noun — A group of three musicians.

  noun — A piece of music written for three musicians.

  noun — A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.

  noun — Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.

• troll5

  troll

  noun — A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.

  noun — An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.

  verb — To saunter.

  noun — The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

  verb — To move circularly; to roll; to turn.

  noun — An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.

  Appeared in 2 recorded puzzles.

• trot1

  trot

  noun — Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

  noun — Heroin (drug).

  noun — An ugly old woman, a hag.

  verb — To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

  noun — A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

  noun — A supporter of Trotskyism.

  Appeared in 6 recorded puzzles.

• victor6

  victor

  noun — The winner in a fight or contest.

  noun — The letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

• vitriol7

  vitriol

  noun — Sulphuric acid and various metal sulphates.

  verb — To subject to bitter verbal abuse.

  noun — (by extension) Bitterly abusive language.

  verb — To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.

  verb — To vitriolize.

• vitriolic16

  vitriolic

  adjective — Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol.

  adjective — Bitterly scathing, caustic.

• volt1

  volt

  noun — In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

  noun — A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.

  noun — A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

  Appeared in 4 recorded puzzles.