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4 Letter Words
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Crossword Buffs
Here is a list of the 4 letter words that appear with the greatest frequency in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. I've included a range of clues for each answer to give you a feel for the variety of clues you are likely to meet when attempting a crossword puzzle.As you'll see, knowing the 4 letter words is easy. Finding the answers from an obscure clue is another thing altogether...
- ALOE
- ____ vera
- Healing balm
- African lily
- Tissue additive
- Yucca plant cousin
- Cure for being caught red-handed?
- ANTE
- Card player's stake
- Prefix with chamber
- Pot starter
- Pay to play
- Vide ____ (see before, in Latin)
- Buy in
- Part of a.m.
- Deal preceder
- Cash on hand?
- Table center piece?
- Stud fee?
- AREA
- Metropolitan ___
- Nonsmoking ___
- Field of study
- Neck of the woods
- Gazetteer figure
- Geometrical finding
- Bailiwick
- Word with surface or disaster
- It may have a code
- Side by side?
- It may be gray
- 'Hood
- ARIA
- Song in an opera house
- Met melody
- Song that's often in a foreign language
- Diva delivery
- "Celeste Aida," e.g.
- High-culture strains
- Operatic offering
- Air on stage
- Unlikely number for a rock concert
- Number for one
- ASEA
- Far from land
- On a cruise
- Totally confused
- Fishing, perhaps
- Between ports
- "...arms against ____ of troubles" (Hamlet)
- Using clippers?
- Making waves?
- Like pirates
- EDEN
- Adam and Eve locale
- East of ___
- Churchill's successor
- Barbara who played a genie
- Scene of a fall
- Place of bliss
- Paradise lost
- Perfect plot
- ELSE
- Otherwise
- "What ___?"
- G. & S.'s Lord High Everything ___
- End of a warning
- Choice word
- It may follow something
- ERIE
- Toledo's lake
- Great Lake touching four states
- Weird-sounding lake
- Niagara's source
- War of 1812 siege site
- Iroquois foe
- Buffalo water
- IDEA
- Notion
- "What's the big ___?"
- Something to think about
- It may be half-baked
- It may be bright
- What a germ may become
- Coconut yield?
- OLEO
- Margarine
- Muffin topper
- Spread out on a table?
- Pat on the buns?
- It's sold in bars
- Promise output
- OREO
- Nabisco cookie
- It may get a licking after dinner
- Dunkable treat
- Hydrox look-alike
- Snack since 1912
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