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Word "SKELETON" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a scandal that is kept secret
Synonyms:
skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard
Examples:
there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
Synonyms:
frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
Synonyms:
frame, skeletal frame, underframe
Examples:
the building has a steel skeleton

Crossword Clues for SKELETON

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Framework The Telegraph Quick 22 Aug 2025
Framework of bones The Times Concise 22 Jul 2025
The ______-- Key, 2005 supernatural horror starring Kate Hudson (8)
Bony framework of the body of an animal (8)
Bob going downhill - painfully thin appearance? (8)
Key to obtaining minimum level of staff? (8)
Secret in a closet
Bony key? (8)
The body's bone frame
Olympic sled event reintroduced in 2002 (8)
What type of key can open many locks? (8)
Type of key item one would prefer not to have in cupboard? The Times Quick Cryptic 25 Apr 2025
The body's bone structure (8)
Staff consisting of bare bones? (8)
Keel's reconnected to middle of liner's basic structure (8)
Framework of Wounded Knee? Lots (8)
Framework The Times Sunday Concise 09 Feb 2025
Framework The Telegraph Quick 09 Feb 2025
Leeks not to be confused with bones (8)
Framework of human bones (8)
Set of bones (8) Mirror Classic 02 Jan 2025
Winter Olympic event in which Lizzy Yarnold has twice won gold for Britain The Times Specialist 30 Dec 2024
Essentially asked to reveal blueprint (8)
Australian abandoning cause to reveal framework
With no limits asked the French to note essential framework The Telegraph Toughie 17 Dec 2024
Having discounted a Japanese drink, reveal it's reduced to lowest strength The Telegraph Toughie 28 Nov 2024
Master (key)
All the bones or the body (8)
Knots Lee removed to reveal bones (8)
The bones of the body (8)
All the bones of the body (8)
Sort of bob or crew cut? (8)
Bone frame (8)
Leek's not cooked to provide my support (8)
The ______-- Key, 2005 horror movie starring Kate Hudson (8)
Do they unlock the burial chambers? (8,4)
Key to bone structure? (8)
One-person bobsleigh event, with the sled having no steering or braking apparatus (8)
Bare-essentials outline (8)
Shameful secret, ... in the cupboard
Human framework (8)
Complete set of bones (8)
Framework for keel's remade with great weight
Secret kept in closet, with master key, make no bones about it! (8)
Boney frame (8)
With which the boneyards are unfastened? (8,4)
Lots keen to improve bone structure (8)
All the bones in your body
Key that opens for frame? (8)
Kneels to reset bones (8)
Sort of key found in a cupboard?
A key to bone structure? (8)
Your inner self?
Body's bony framework
Dem bones (closet item, so to speak) (8)
____-key
Closeted scandal
Bone structure? The Guardian Speedy 18 Feb 2024
Fractured knee - lost several bones (8)
Framework of bones The Times Concise 29 Jan 2024
Framework in novel Ken reworked
Osseous structure (8)
Minimum level of staff that's needed for anatomy lectures? (8)
Bony framework The Guardian Quick 27 Dec 2023
Framework, or set of bones (8) Puzzler 24 Nov 2023
Kent lose badly in sporting event The Guardian Cryptic 15 Nov 2023
Support Bob in the Winter Olympics The Guardian Cryptic 03 Nov 2023
With 32-Across, embarrassing secret LA Times Daily 31 Oct 2023
To kneel's awkward — I'm bony! The Guardian Quiptic 08 May 2023
Anatomy class model USA Today 26 Apr 2023
Thankless task keeping the French within school framework The Telegraph Toughie 22 Feb 2023
Not sleek (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 15 Feb 2023
It makes up about 15% of your body weight Universal 09 Feb 2023
Bare bones Wall Street Journal 23 Jan 2023
Anatomy class prop Eugene Sheffer 03 Jan 2023
Asked to go naked, revealed frame The Telegraph Toughie 16 Nov 2022
Bony Halloween visitor Eugene Sheffer 31 Oct 2022
Male heir holding box back, containing king's bones The Guardian Cryptic 22 Aug 2022
Observe Albanian money to be back in the frame The Times Cryptic 09 Aug 2022
Second key cut revealed key, perhaps The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Aug 2022
Bony frame of English poet digesting opening of elegy The Times Cryptic 13 Jun 2022
Bony structure The Telegraph Quick 05 May 2022
Outline Klee's absurdly fashionable style The Times Cryptic 03 May 2022
Asked to remove case and reveal secret contents of closet? The Times Cryptic 16 Mar 2022
Prop in an anatomy class
Internal framework The Times Concise 07 Jan 2022
A solver of a ____ crossword must work out most of the grid The Times Specialist Sunday 02 Jan 2022
Key frame? The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Dec 2021
Anatomy class display USA Today 24 Oct 2021
Son having to kneel shuffling set of bones
Bony framework Irish Times Simplex 08 Sep 2021
Framework of bones Irish Times Simplex 02 Aug 2021
Bodily frame The Times Concise 28 Jun 2021
Popular Halloween costume LA Times Daily 10 Jun 2021
Popular Halloween costume The Washington Post 10 Jun 2021
Bob, going downhill rapidly, very bony appearance
Bony-looking Halloween costume The Washington Post 03 May 2021
What every body has is seen with no body?
Bony-looking Halloween costume LA Times Daily 03 May 2021
Bony frame The Telegraph Quick 01 May 2021
Lots keen to change basic scheme The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Apr 2021
Kildare accommodation mentioned in State Paper discovered by archaeologist Irish Times Crosaire 12 Apr 2021
Bony framework Irish Times Simplex 09 Apr 2021
Remains in The Underground spinning records about the foreign weekend Irish Times Crosaire 06 Apr 2021
Sort of bob, remarkably sleek fashion
Bob or crew cut?
Hanging Halloween decoration Universal 28 Oct 2020
A rough draft, in a writing sense, discovered in 10 across after a time Irish Times Crosaire 09 Oct 2020
Framework of bones Irish Times Simplex 27 Aug 2020
Framework The Telegraph Quick 04 Aug 2020
Not sleek (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 28 Jul 2020
Body-frame Irish Times Simplex 11 May 2020
All that remains of a rough draft, in a writing sense Irish Times Crosaire 17 Apr 2020
''Bony'' Halloween costume Newsday 24 Feb 2020
As 'Lark Rise' showing ends, reveal basic framework The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Nov 2019
Framework in novel Kes revealed The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Bones The Sun Two Speed 01 Oct 2019
Bones — not leeks — cooked The Sun Two Speed 20 Sep 2019
Framework The Sun Two Speed 20 Sep 2019
Halloween being often depicted smiling The Washington Post Sunday 18 Aug 2019
Body's framework The Times Concise 03 Jul 2019
Halloween hanging USA Today 21 Apr 2019
Elks confused by school outline The Telegraph Toughie 26 Mar 2019
Carelessly lost knee bones
Poet retaining English structure as basis
Description of key scheme reduced to essentials The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Nov 2018
Stripped of meat and fresh leeks and it's not served up Irish Times Crosaire 16 Nov 2018
Kneels excited over bone from duck found in archaeological site Irish Times Crosaire 24 Oct 2018
The bare bones of novel Ken stole Irish Times Crosaire 28 Aug 2018
Poet keeping English as framework
Asked to go naked, revealed frame The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Aug 2018
Basic structure half of sketch revealed
Framework, outline Irish Times Simplex 17 May 2018
Basic structure half of sketch revealed
Internal framework The Times Concise 16 Mar 2018
Poet retaining English structure as basis
The bare bones of leeks not mint Irish Times Crosaire 21 Aug 2017
Remains of T-Rex stolen suspiciously around Kildare Irish Times Crosaire 09 Aug 2017
Thankless task to get the Spanish school structural support The Times Cryptic 01 Aug 2017
Thankless task to get the Spanish school structural support
Bones The Telegraph Quick 30 Jul 2017
Anatomy class prop Universal 16 Feb 2017
Exhibit in an anatomy class New York Times 09 Jan 2017
Anatomy class prop
Exhibit in an anatomy class
Anatomy class teaching aid The Washington Post 16 Dec 2016
Framework keels badly with weight attached The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Nov 2016
Unskinned thing? Family Time 12 Sep 2016
It has a left radius and a right radius Wall Street Journal 02 Sep 2016
Nakedly asked and revealed outline The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jun 2016
Doctor lost knee bones!
Them bones Wall Street Journal 11 May 2016
Second key almost revealed master key? The Telegraph Toughie 24 Mar 2016
Visual aid in 50-Across classrooms Wall Street Journal 23 Mar 2016
Hidden scandal (in a cupboard?) The Guardian Quick 20 Feb 2016
Small keen lot travelling to the National History Museum exhibit Irish Times Crosaire 03 Dec 2015
Framework in keel's warped by weight
Framework in keel's warped by weight
Stolen key not unknown possibly to be this kind The Telegraph Toughie 02 Jul 2015
The bones of this gets under one's skin? Irish Times Crosaire 27 May 2015
Poet framing end of verse - the bare bones?
The bare bones gets under one's skin? Irish Times Crosaire 16 Mar 2015
Key for the contents of the cupboard, perhaps The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Feb 2015
Bones from Wounded Knee? Lots The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Jan 2015
Notes rewritten about rare elk's frame
Sketch, half complete, revealed outline
Anatomy class model
Anatomy class display
Word with crew or key
Secret metaphor
Common Halloween costume
Secret metaphor
Word with crew or key
Anatomy class teaching aid
October porch swinger
October porch swinger
What a paleontologist reconstructs
Anatomy class display
One hanging around med school?
Natural history museum exhibit
Halloween costume
Anatomy class display
Type of key or crew
Bare bones model?
Halloween costume
Anatomy lab figure
Type of key
Closet item?
Anatomy class prop
Common Halloween costume
Halloween display
Halloween hanging
Kind of crew
Prop in an anatomy class
Radius s milieu
Halloween hanging
Asked to remove case and reveal secret contents of closet?
Framework
Type of key or crew
Anatomy class teaching aid
Halloween costume
Kind of key
Anatomy class model
Framework
Inhabitant of a closet.
Halloween masquerade costume.
Type of key.
Framework.
Popular Halloween costume.
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