Answer: EXPLETIVE
The answer EXPLETIVE has 29 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Profane expression usually of surprise or anger
- 'He is a sort of -- at the table, serving to stop gaps' (Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table)
- It's topless love. The compiler's fifty -- that's taken in with curse!
- Swear-word? The writer's left in old favourite for a start
- Former favourite compiler's receiving large curse
- Obscenity (to be deleted?)
- Old cat or dog I have, catching fifty rats, say?
- Former VIP let out European obscenity
- A kind of profanity deleted in Watergate tape transcripts
- Four-letter word
Last seen in:
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 16,390 - Nov 17 2022
- The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 28432
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,756 - May 13 2022
- Newsday.com - Mar 18 2022
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,550 - Sep 14 2021
- Universal - Aug 5 2021
- The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,431 - Apr 28 2021
- The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,450 - Jun 9 2020
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,591 - Apr 27 2020
- Irish Times (Simplex) - Apr 14 2020