| In sport, an offside position? (5) |
|
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| West ___ (US military academy) (5) |
|
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| Indicate rudely, with "at" |
|
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| Purpose of having oxygen in beer (5) |
|
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| Indicate with forefinger (5) |
|
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| Tip or unfortunately no tip (5) |
|
|
| Word that follows Tipping to give the title of a game show hosted by Ben Shephard (5) |
|
|
| Dot |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jun 2025 |
| Direct issue |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Jun 2025 |
| Dot on a graph for math lovers ... or direct with the index finger for the rest |
|
|
| Indicate there's a score (5) |
|
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| Indicate a position in the field (5) |
|
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| With 68 Across, player often running the offense |
|
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| Sharp end |
Mirror Classic |
22 May 2025 |
| Indicate purpose (5) |
|
|
| Gist |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 May 2025 |
| Fielding position in cricket at right angles to the batsman on the off side (5) |
|
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| Explain clearly, pin-drop, it comes at the end (5) |
|
|
| "Match ___," psychological thriller sports film starring Scarlett Johansson that is based on 38a |
|
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| Remark's motive |
Newsday |
13 Apr 2025 |
| Match ___, Woody Allen film starring Scarlett Johansson (5) |
Puzzler |
06 Apr 2025 |
| Indicate with your index finger |
|
|
| The essential part of decimals (5) |
|
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| *Indicate with a finger or period that comes after 18a in Pi |
|
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| Indicate there's nothing in a glass of beer (5) |
|
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| Pressure ___, massage therapist's focus spot that can relieve you from stress |
|
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| Indicate a single addition to the score (5) |
|
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| Particular bar order maybe featuring starter of oysters |
The Times Cryptic |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Decisive moment of ITV quiz show hosted by Ben Shephard (7,5) |
|
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| Indicate the precise moment |
|
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| Indicate, for quantity, there's nothing in it (5) |
|
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| For a beer, duck inside at this junction (5) |
|
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| Unit of weight for precious stones equal to 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat (5) |
|
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| Indicate: - out the problem |
|
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| 2001 Belmont Stakes and Preakness Stakes winner (5) |
|
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| Fundamental reason for full stop? |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Jan 2025 |
| Quietly changing into, at this juncture (5) |
|
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| Behind, in Australian football (5) |
|
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| 2005 Woody Allen film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson (5,5) |
|
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| Indicate by a finger |
|
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| Aim for the head (5) |
|
|
| Direct contribution to debate? |
The Times Cryptic |
06 Jan 2025 |
| Significance of headland? (5) |
|
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| Knife tip (5) |
|
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| Unit of score |
|
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| Call attention to behind (5) |
|
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| Feature grass around home (5) |
|
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| Sharp or tapered end |
|
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| Case in ___ (example) |
|
|
| Indicate the precise matter (5) |
|
|
| Sharp end |
Puzzler Backwords |
18 Nov 2024 |
| Mark is at home in corporation (5) |
|
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| Score for a ball going over the bar in hurling (5) |
|
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| The idea of being in top, perhaps (5) |
|
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| Particular moment (5) |
|
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| Any of 32 equal angles of 11.25 degrees shown on a compass (5) |
|
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| Indicate a position on the cricket field (5) |
|
|
| Sharp end |
Mirror Classic |
31 Oct 2024 |
| Tip glass of beer when getting round in |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Oct 2024 |
| Indicate a score (5) |
|
|
| Identify using the index? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Oct 2024 |
| The purpose of a V shape (5) |
|
|
| Indicate with the finger |
The Times Concise |
17 Oct 2024 |
| Font measure |
|
|
| Indicate the sharp end (5) |
|
|
| It has a sharpened end but no tip is evident |
|
|
| Pencil tip, eg |
|
|
| "___ Break" (1991 Reeves-Swayze action film) |
|
|
| Stop to indicate |
|
|
| Tapered end |
Puzzler Backwords |
14 Sep 2024 |
| Doddering in top position |
The Times Cryptic |
20 Aug 2024 |
| Indicate with a finger |
Mirror Tea Time |
06 Jul 2024 |
| Indicate where a fielder may stand (5) |
|
|
| Indicate a promontory |
|
|
| Sharp end |
Mirror Classic |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Unit of scoring (5) |
|
|
| Stage direct (5) |
|
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| The purpose of a punctuation mark (5) |
|
|
| Indicate there is a tip (5) |
|
|
| The P of GPA |
|
|
| Gist |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jun 2024 |
| Somewhere to go before international show (5) |
|
|
| "___ taken" |
TV |
26 May 2024 |
| Indicate a full stop in print (5) |
|
|
| Dagga covers home tip (5) |
|
|
| Gist |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Stage (5) |
|
|
| Quietly turning it on at this stage (5) |
|
|
| Why outpatient gets a zero? It is what the arrow will do (5,3,3,3) |
|
|
| See 7-Across |
New York Times Mini |
16 Apr 2024 |
| ___-and-shoot camera |
|
|
| Indicate with your index finger |
|
|
| Tip of a pen or pencil |
Newsday |
02 Apr 2024 |
| Use an index for directions? |
|
|
| Draw attention to location |
|
|
| Draw attention to location (5) |
|
|
| Pressure ___, massage therapist's focus spot that can relieve you from stress |
|
|
| Indicate the mortar finish (5) |
|
|
| Boiling _, restaurantbased drama with Stephen Graham (5) |
|
|
| Get Tip to nip it! (5) |
|
|
| Indicate the precise spot |
|
|
| Indicate the precise spot (5) |
|
|
| Two-___ conversion (touchdown follower, sometimes) (5) |
|
|
| At very close range |
|
|
| Vicky McClure's explosive ITV drama series (5) |
|
|
| Indicate it's sharp (5) |
|
|
| Gesture with a finger |
|
|
| "What's your ___?" ("What are you trying to say?") |
|
|
| The object of putting nothing in a pint (5) |
|
|
| Indicate by finger |
|
|
| Indicate with the finger |
Mirror Classic |
03 Feb 2024 |
| Pen part |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Jan 2024 |
| Juncture at which to draw attention to (5) |
|
|
| Give the finger? |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Jan 2024 |
| For a cricketer, the crux of the matter (5) |
|
|
| I indicate that no tip is required |
|
|
| Allude |
|
|
| The purpose is to train (5) |
|
|
| Sharp tip |
The Times Concise |
02 Dec 2023 |
| Case in ___ (example) |
|
|
| Pencil tip |
USA Today |
01 Nov 2023 |
| "__ Break": Kathryn Bigelow surfing film |
LA Times Daily |
26 Oct 2023 |
| Past the ___ of no return |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2023 |
| Purpose |
New York Times |
10 Sep 2023 |
| "Your ___ is?" |
Universal |
20 Aug 2023 |
| Brayden ___, Canadian ice hockey player who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 2020 |
|
|
| Suffix with "Power" for Microsoft's presentation program |
|
|
| ___ at (indicate with one's finger) |
|
|
| Gesture while giving directions, maybe |
LA Times Daily |
14 Apr 2023 |
| Tip beer when carrying round |
The Guardian Cryptic |
30 Mar 2023 |
| "___ a finger at someone" (blame someone) |
|
|
| Value tip of writer |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Mar 2023 |
| Score unit |
Universal |
09 Feb 2023 |
| Indicate with one's index finger |
|
|
| Pen part |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Dec 2022 |
| Pencil tip |
New York Times |
05 Dec 2022 |
| Case in ___ (example) |
|
|
| Pencil part |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Nov 2022 |
| See 1-Down |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Sep 2022 |
| Indicate |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Sep 2022 |
| Discussion detail |
Universal |
08 Sep 2022 |
| Use digit or what may be between digits |
|
|
| Aim |
LA Times Daily |
06 Aug 2022 |
| Place nothing in drink |
The Times Cryptic |
06 Jul 2022 |
| East _____, Manitoba |
Canadiana |
27 Jun 2022 |
| Tip |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Jun 2022 |
| "What's your __?" |
LA Times Daily |
22 May 2022 |
| Needle tip... or a not-so-apt anagram of "no tip" |
|
|
| Homonym for either a "small dot" or "purpose" |
|
|
| ___ guard, basketball position that's responsible for leading the team's offense |
|
|
| "Deception ___," 2001 novel by Dan Brown which follows a White House intelligence analyst |
|
|
| Indicate fielding position |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Dec 2021 |
| Spot beer, getting round in |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Dec 2021 |
| Beer with a drop of orange |
|
|
| Gesture while giving directions |
The Washington Post |
11 Oct 2021 |
| Gesture while giving directions |
LA Times Daily |
11 Oct 2021 |
| Gist |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Oct 2021 |
| Pencil part |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Aug 2021 |
| One end of a pencil |
USA Today |
27 Jul 2021 |
| Reason for a statement |
Newsday |
04 Jul 2021 |
| "The Tipping ___: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference," non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell |
|
|
| 'I think you're missing the ___' |
USA Today |
11 Jun 2021 |
| Scoreboard addition |
Newsday |
06 May 2021 |
| Aim; tip |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 May 2021 |
| Love to tuck into beer for a moment |
|
|
| "___ of No Return," 1993 action film starring Dermot Mulroney as J.P. |
|
|
| North, south, east or west |
New York Times |
13 Apr 2021 |
| Pencil part |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Mar 2021 |
| Headland |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Mar 2021 |
| "___ a finger at someone" (blame someone) |
|
|
| Essence of an argument |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Mar 2021 |
| Pencil tip |
Newsday |
02 Mar 2021 |
| Indicate; place |
The Times Concise |
16 Feb 2021 |
| 'You might have a ___ there' |
USA Today |
26 Dec 2020 |
| Indicate more beer's needed, it seems? |
|
|
| Gesture "that way" |
Family Time |
06 Dec 2020 |
| Gist |
New York Times |
26 Sep 2020 |
| Pen part |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Sep 2020 |
| Tip of a pencil |
Newsday |
07 Sep 2020 |
| Indicate with a finger |
|
|
| . Period feature? |
|
|
| Indicate the direction |
Newsday |
15 Jul 2020 |
| Decimal dot |
|
|
| Datum on a graph |
Universal |
30 Jun 2020 |
| A score for Tipp, by the sound of it |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 Jun 2020 |
| 'Good ___' |
The Washington Post Sunday |
24 May 2020 |
| Fielding position in the news? |
|
|
| Use |
The Times Concise |
08 Mar 2020 |
| 'What's the ___?' |
New York Times |
27 Feb 2020 |
| Crux |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Dec 2019 |
| 'That's beside the ___' |
USA Today |
26 Dec 2019 |
| Orient or East maybe? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Dec 2019 |
| Something to drive home |
New York Times |
24 Nov 2019 |
| Something to drive home |
|
|
| Indicate drink is empty? |
|
|
| Show the way, in a way |
USA Today |
07 Nov 2019 |
| Indicate player in an off-side position |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Nov 2019 |
| Purpose at home? Cutting grass |
|
|
| Unlikely to miss period left to fill shelf |
|
|
| Tip of a pen or pencil |
Newsday |
30 Jul 2019 |
| Exact moment |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Jun 2019 |
| Lift a finger? |
The New Yorker |
13 May 2019 |
| Dot; argument, idea |
The Times Concise |
25 Apr 2019 |
| Use train signal |
|
|
| Graph mark |
USA Today |
24 Mar 2019 |
| Word after boiling or breaking |
USA Today |
15 Mar 2019 |
| Mark has a beer, getting round in |
|
|
| Show something with your finger |
|
|
| West ___ |
The Washington Post Sunday |
17 Feb 2019 |
| Aim in occupying corporation |
|
|
| "Your ___ being?" |
Universal |
22 Jan 2019 |
| 1 percent of a mortgage amount |
USA Today |
16 Jan 2019 |
| One percent of a mortgage amount |
|
|
| Graph mark |
|
|
| Word after boiling or breaking |
|
|
| "Your ___ being?" |
|
|
| Sharpener's creation |
USA Today |
08 Dec 2018 |
| Identify someone without speaking |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2018 |
| Word after match or melting |
USA Today |
12 Oct 2018 |
| ___ Park University, Pittsburgh university attended by Neil Haskell |
|
|
| Object when nothing put in glass of beer? |
|
|
| Sharp end |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jul 2018 |
| Dart part |
USA Today |
01 Jun 2018 |
| Turkey ____ (Place in Ontario ) |
Canadiana |
14 May 2018 |
| Matter at home filling sink |
|
|
| Direct issue |
|
|
| Tip: fill the gaps between 7 |
|
|
| Top of beer containing oxygen |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Jan 2018 |
| Identify someone without speaking |
|
|
| Dart part |
|
|
| Sharpener's creation |
|
|
| Word after match or melting |
|
|
| Measure to admit old proposition |
|
|
| Be rude, in a way? That's characteristic |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Dec 2017 |
| Purpose in detail |
|
|
| Characteristic purpose |
|
|
| Finishes 9 down in goal |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 Nov 2017 |
| Make an identification digitally? |
New York Times |
08 Nov 2017 |
| One can be driven home |
New York Times |
23 Sep 2017 |
| Aim; unit of type size |
The Times Concise |
18 Apr 2017 |
| Pencil part |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Feb 2017 |
| 16-ounce container |
New York Times |
05 Feb 2017 |
| Period |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Jan 2017 |
| Make an identification digitally? |
|
|
| 16-ounce container |
|
|
| One can be driven home |
|
|
| Gist |
Newsday |
16 Dec 2016 |
| Indicate a direction |
Universal |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Be a director, in a way, and what can follow the last parts of 17-, 29-, 36-, 43-, and 59-Across |
The Washington Post |
14 Nov 2016 |
| Essential thing |
LA Times Daily |
12 Nov 2016 |
| Sharpener's creation |
Universal |
04 Jun 2016 |
| Aim |
New York Times |
25 Mar 2016 |
| Indicate the stage |
|
|
| Show some beer, getting a round in |
|
|
| Indicate |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Jan 2016 |
| Nothing in beer that's sharp |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jan 2016 |
| Essential thing |
|
|
| Indicate a direction |
|
|
| Sharpener's creation |
|
|
| Direct, aim |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Nov 2015 |
| Aim for tapered end |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Nov 2015 |
| Exact |
New York Times |
22 Nov 2015 |
| Dot |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Oct 2015 |
| Identify someone in a lineup, say |
New York Times |
13 Sep 2015 |
| Fielder's tip |
|
|
| See 10 Across |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Sep 2015 |
| Purpose |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Jul 2015 |
| Spot something round in a glass of beer |
|
|
| Sharp tip |
Universal |
31 May 2015 |
| Essence |
LA Times Daily |
13 Mar 2015 |
| Hunting dogs do it |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Mar 2015 |
| We? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 Feb 2015 |
| Direct to a specific location |
|
|
| Dot; fielding position |
The Times Concise |
21 Jan 2015 |
| Long ____ , Nova Scotia |
Canadiana |
12 Jan 2015 |
| Compass direction |
Newsday |
02 Jan 2015 |
| Compass direction |
|
|
| Identify someone in a lineup, say |
|
|
| Sharp tip |
|
|
| Essence |
|
|
| Spot beer, getting in round |
|
|
| Tapered end of grass surrounding home |
|
|
| Writing end |
|
|
| Moment in time |
|
|
| Twelfth of a pica |
|
|
| Act rudely, maybe |
|
|
| Needle tip |
|
|
| Graph marking |
|
|
| North or west |
|
|
| Pin or knife follower |
|
|
| Show the way, in a way |
|
|
| Twelfth of a pica |
|
|
| Gist |
|
|
| You can do it with one finger |
|
|
| Pencil sharpener's creation |
|
|
| Show the way, in a way |
|
|
| Where two lines intersect |
|
|
| Chevelle debut "___ #1" |
|
|
| Instant |
|
|
| Pencil end |
|
|
| Gist |
|
|
| Show the direction |
|
|
| Argument |
|
|
| Main idea |
|
|
| Show the way |
|
|
| Kansas "How long, to the ___ of know return" |
|
|
| Pencil need |
|
|
| Word after boiling or breaking |
|
|
| Antler end |
|
|
| Gist |
|
|
| Mortgage lender's percent |
|
|
| Salient feature |
|
|
| "Zabrinskie ___" (soundtrack) |
|
|
| Gist |
|
|
| Salient feature |
|
|
| Overarching meaning |
|
|
| Give directions |
|
|
| Main idea |
|
|
| N, E, S, or W, on a compass |
|
|
| Twelfth of a pica |
|
|
| Pen end |
|
|
| See 9-Across |
|
|
| "What's your ___?" |
|
|
| "Don't ___!" |
|
|
| Directly show where |
|
|
| Logical argument |
|
|
| Use one's index finger, perhaps |
|
|
| Free-throw reward |
|
|
| One percent of the loan amount |
|
|
| Pencil tip |
|
|
| Objective |
|
|
| Use one's index finger, perhaps |
|
|
| Indicate with a finger |
|
|
| Hundredth of a carat |
|
|
| Gist |
|
|
| Heart of the matter |
|
|
| Indicate with a finger |
|
|
| Show the way, in a way |
|
|
| #19 |
|
|
| Purpose |
|
|
| Detail |
|
|
| A pencil's end |
|
|
| Essential meaning |
|
|
| It can follow the last word of 20-, 27-, 43- and 53-Across |
|
|
| Compass direction |
|
|
| Show the way |
|
|
| Show the way |
|
|
| It can follow the last word of 20-, 27-, 43- and 53-Across |
|
|
| Directly show where |
|
|
| Mention, with "out" |
|
|
| Show the way |
|
|
| You can do it with one finger |
|
|
| Use one's index finger |
|
|
| Score unit |
|
|
| First word follower of 17, 64-Across and 11, 29-Down |
|
|
| Gist |
|
|
| Be a director |
|
|
| "What's your __?" |
|
|
| "What's your __?" |
|
|
| Show the way, in a way |
|
|
| Score unit |
|
|
| Needle end |
|
|
| Extend an index |
|
|
| Show the way, in a way |
|
|
| Main idea |
|
|
| "1 see your ___" |
|
|
| Objective |
|
|
| '_____ Break ('91 film)' |
|
|
| Pencil need |
|
|
| Exact moment |
|
|
| Essential thing |
|
|
| Compass division |
|
|
| Salient feature |
|
|
| Aim |
|
|
| No-return site? |
|
|
| "What's your ___?" |
|
|
| Tapered end |
|
|
| Indicate, rudely |
|
|
| North, south, east or west |
|
|
| Purpose |
|
|
| Indicate fielding position |
|
|
| Needle feature |
|
|
| Tapered end |
|
|
| A good hunting dog will do it |
|
|
| Show a direction |
|
|
| Show direction |
|
|
| Juncture |
|
|
| Aim |
|
|
| Decimal dot |
|
|
| Indicate direction |
|
|
| Pen or pin follower |
|
|
| Mortgage lender's percent |
|
|
| Daggers' tip |
|
|
| Exact moment |
|
|
| Moot thing |
|
|
| West follower |
|
|
| Word with dew or view |
|
|
| One-twelfth of a pica |
|
|
| Aim |
|
|
| North or South, e.g. |
|
|
| Sharp end |
|
|
| Pencil part |
|
|
| Pen part |
|
|
| Purpose |
|
|
| __ Judity, R.I. |
|
|
| Meaning |
|
|
| ___-blank |
|
|
| Indicate, with "to" |
|
|
| Kind of bridge count |
|
|
| Use one's index finger |
|
|
| Main idea |
|
|
| Come to the ___ |
|
|
| Particular |
|
|
| ___ with pride |
|
|
| Stance for a hunting dog |
|
|
| Emulate a bird dog. |
|
|
| Spit of land. |
|
|
| Telling argument. |
|
|
| Give the finger? |
|
|
| Aim. |
|
|
| Kick after a touchdown. |
|
|
| To the ___ |
|
|
| Cogency. |
|
|
| What setters do. |
|
|
| Cape. |
|
|
| Score. |
|
|
| Location. |
|
|
| Main idea. |
|
|
| Promontory. |
|
|
| Indicate. |
|
|
| Exact moment. |
|
|
| West ___. |
|
|
| Unit, as in game scores. |
|
|
| Item. |
|
|
| Important part of a joke. |
|
|
| ___ lace. |
|
|
| Indicate prey. |
|
|
| Particular. |
|
|
| Petit or needle |
|
|
| Cape |
|
|