| Steps on a scale |
New York Times |
30 Jan 2026 |
| Sounds; notes (anag.) |
The Telegraph Plusword |
14 Jan 2026 |
| Color variations |
Commuter |
12 Jan 2026 |
| Musical sounds |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Dec 2025 |
| Sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Nov 2025 |
| Shades; sounds |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Oct 2025 |
| Sounds or shades |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
11 Oct 2025 |
| Voicemail sounds |
Newsday |
23 Sep 2025 |
| Sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Sep 2025 |
| Musical sounds |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Aug 2025 |
| Strengthens, as muscles |
LA Times Daily |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Colors |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Aug 2025 |
| Shades of color |
Newsday |
07 Jul 2025 |
| Features of Navajo and Gwich'in |
USA Today |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Sounds like stone breaking (5) |
|
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| Stone thrown at intervals (5) |
|
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| Audio signals |
|
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| Features of Mandarin and Gwich'in |
USA Today |
14 May 2025 |
| Hearing test pitches |
|
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| Shades of colour |
|
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| Shades of color |
Newsday |
29 Apr 2025 |
| Notes; notes (anag.) |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
28 Apr 2025 |
| Shades |
USA Today |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Phone sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Mar 2025 |
| Musical notes |
New York Times |
12 Mar 2025 |
| Voicemail prompts |
Universal |
05 Mar 2025 |
| Scratching the head, repents getting suits (5) |
|
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| Characters of sound |
|
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| Apt anagram of "notes" |
USA Today |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Colours; vocal inflexions (5) |
|
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| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Sounds of stone crushed (5) |
|
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| Color variations |
Newsday |
24 Dec 2024 |
| Paint swatch options |
|
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| Audible signals |
|
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| Color wheel display |
LA Times Daily |
01 Dec 2024 |
| Musical sounds |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Nov 2024 |
| Results of mixing colors with gray, in color theory |
|
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| Goes harmoniously as a blend of notes (5) |
|
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| Improves the definition of |
Newsday |
12 Oct 2024 |
| Shades an individual in back street (5) |
|
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| __ down: softens |
LA Times Daily |
24 Sep 2024 |
| Shades of color |
USA Today |
17 Sep 2024 |
| Sound qualities, harsh .. |
|
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| ___ down (makes more moderate) |
|
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| Musical notes |
Newsday |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Timbres (5) |
|
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| Elements of sounds and colors |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Aug 2024 |
| They're played in some audiology tests |
|
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| Makes firm, as muscles |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Busy signals, e.g. |
New York Times |
09 Aug 2024 |
| Sounds upset on entering (5) |
|
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| Phone sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Jul 2024 |
| ___ down (mutes) |
|
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| Earth __: natural shades |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Earth ___ (hikers may wear them) |
|
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| Musical notes |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Sounds not going Westwards ? (5) |
|
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| Hats off to our new editor scrutinising styles |
|
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| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
18 May 2024 |
| Some color variations |
Universal |
01 May 2024 |
| Vocal inflexions |
|
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| The Thai language has five |
USA Today |
19 Apr 2024 |
| Qualities of sound |
|
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| Dial ___ (sounds heard on landlines) |
|
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| Tightens up |
Newsday |
31 Mar 2024 |
| Moderates, ___ down |
|
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| Notes the change in the vocal inflexions (5) |
|
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| Steps on a 47 down |
|
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| Sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Musical airs (5) |
|
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| Musical notes |
Universal |
09 Dec 2023 |
| Chromatic nuances |
Universal |
25 Nov 2023 |
| Makeup palette choices |
Universal |
04 Nov 2023 |
| Foundation options |
LA Times Daily |
14 Oct 2023 |
| Voicemail sounds |
Newsday |
18 Sep 2023 |
| Voicemail sounds |
Newsday |
21 Aug 2023 |
| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Jul 2023 |
| Hues |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jun 2023 |
| Sound qualities |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 May 2023 |
| Shades of color |
USA Today |
23 Mar 2023 |
| Phone sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Feb 2023 |
| Vietnamese has six of them |
USA Today |
19 Nov 2022 |
| Color wheel options |
New York Times |
13 Nov 2022 |
| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Oct 2022 |
| Shades of color |
Universal |
04 Oct 2022 |
| Musical notes |
Newsday |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Color variations |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Color qualities |
Premier Sunday |
19 Jun 2022 |
| Message-leavers' cues |
Premier Sunday |
29 May 2022 |
| Results of mixing colors with gray, perhaps |
Universal |
07 May 2022 |
| Eases, with "down" |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jan 2022 |
| Eases, with 'down' |
The Washington Post |
28 Jan 2022 |
| Musical sounds — new, in place of fine lady's bells |
|
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| Musical sounds — new, in place of fine lady's bells |
The Guardian Cryptic |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Shades |
USA Today |
08 Jan 2022 |
| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Dec 2021 |
| Makeup palette assortment |
New York Times |
03 Dec 2021 |
| Accents or inflections in speech indicating the mood or emotion |
|
|
| Shades |
LA Times Daily |
24 Oct 2021 |
| Shades of color |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2021 |
| Qualities of people's voices |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 Sep 2021 |
| ___ and I, "Dance Monkey" hitmaker |
|
|
| Gradations of color |
Newsday |
01 Aug 2021 |
| Skin qualities |
Premier Sunday |
20 Jun 2021 |
| Color variations |
Premier Sunday |
13 Jun 2021 |
| Foundation options |
New York Times |
06 Jun 2021 |
| Musical steps |
Premier Sunday |
23 May 2021 |
| Color gradations |
Universal |
19 Apr 2021 |
| Shades of color |
Newsday |
12 Apr 2021 |
| Colorings |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Apr 2021 |
| Musical notes |
Newsday |
05 Apr 2021 |
| Musical sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Mar 2021 |
| Shades |
USA Today |
08 Mar 2021 |
| Colours; sounds |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Feb 2021 |
| Gets into shape, with "up" |
Universal |
01 Dec 2020 |
| Phone sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Nov 2020 |
| Colors |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Oct 2020 |
| Thai has five of them |
USA Today |
03 Sep 2020 |
| Shades of color |
USA Today |
06 Aug 2020 |
| Color variations |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Jul 2020 |
| Earth ___ (colors of brown) |
|
|
| Mandarin Chinese has four main ones |
USA Today |
01 Apr 2020 |
| Musical pitches |
|
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| Color wheel choices |
USA Today |
27 Nov 2019 |
| Qualities of people's voices |
Irish Times Simplex |
19 Nov 2019 |
| Hearing test components |
USA Today |
26 Oct 2019 |
| Firms up |
Newsday |
19 May 2019 |
| Gets in shape, with 'up' |
USA Today |
10 May 2019 |
| Fans sent to cup round matches |
|
|
| Voicemail prompts |
USA Today |
17 Apr 2019 |
| NBC chime trio |
USA Today |
22 Feb 2019 |
| Sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Jan 2019 |
| Gets in shape, with "up" |
|
|
| Hearing test components |
|
|
| NBC chime trio |
|
|
| Xylophone output |
Universal |
26 Aug 2018 |
| Musical sounds |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 Jul 2018 |
| Color variations |
Newsday |
23 Jul 2018 |
| Colors |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Jun 2018 |
| Rendered notes? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jun 2018 |
| Colors or sounds |
Thomas Joseph |
25 May 2018 |
| Voicemail sounds |
USA Today |
22 May 2018 |
| Tints of colour |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 May 2018 |
| Musical array |
LA Times Daily |
06 May 2018 |
| Musical array |
The Washington Post |
06 May 2018 |
| Color gradations |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2018 |
| Shades of color |
New York Times |
02 Apr 2018 |
| Shades of color |
LA Times Daily |
30 Jan 2018 |
| Shades of color |
The Washington Post |
30 Jan 2018 |
| Shades of color |
|
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| Shades of color |
|
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| Voicemail sounds |
|
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| Musical array |
|
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| Xylophone output |
|
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| Shades of colour sound qualities |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Dec 2017 |
| Colour shades |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Dec 2017 |
| Tightens muscles |
Universal |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Phone button sounds |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2017 |
| Hews |
New York Times |
12 Oct 2017 |
| Softens, with "down" |
USA Today |
31 Aug 2017 |
| Steps on a scale? |
Universal |
22 Aug 2017 |
| Gets buff, with 'up' |
The Washington Post |
06 Aug 2017 |
| Gets buff, with "up" |
LA Times Daily |
06 Aug 2017 |
| Firms up |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jun 2017 |
| Various colors |
Universal |
04 May 2017 |
| Shades |
The Washington Post |
29 Apr 2017 |
| Shades |
LA Times Daily |
29 Apr 2017 |
| Hues |
LA Times Daily |
13 Feb 2017 |
| Shades |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Feb 2017 |
| Firms up, as muscles |
USA Today |
29 Jan 2017 |
| Softens, with "down" |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jan 2017 |
| Vocal inflections |
Newsday |
17 Jan 2017 |
| Musical sound qualities |
Universal |
15 Jan 2017 |
| Gets buff, with "up" |
|
|
| Hews |
|
|
| Musical sound qualities |
|
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| Steps on a scale? |
|
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| Tightens muscles |
|
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| Various colors |
|
|
| Softens, with "down" |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Softens, with "down" |
|
|
| Shades |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Nov 2016 |
| Firms up |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Sep 2016 |
| Firms up, as muscles |
Universal |
30 Jul 2016 |
| Utilizes a gym |
Universal |
22 Jun 2016 |
| Musical qualities |
Universal |
21 Jun 2016 |
| Voicemail cues |
LA Times Daily |
08 May 2016 |
| Vocal qualities |
The Washington Post |
31 Mar 2016 |
| Mutes, with 'down' |
New York Times |
28 Jan 2016 |
| Musical qualities |
|
|
| Mutes, with "down" |
|
|
| Voicemail cues |
|
|
| Firms up, as muscles |
|
|
| Utilizes a gym |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Electronic sounds |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Dec 2015 |
| Makes firmer |
Newsday |
21 Nov 2015 |
| Voice-mail sounds |
Newsday |
07 Sep 2015 |
| Moderates, with ''down'' |
Newsday |
04 Sep 2015 |
| Painting effects |
Newsday |
06 Jun 2015 |
| Musical sound qualities |
USA Today |
17 Apr 2015 |
| Chimes, e.g |
New York Times |
15 Feb 2015 |
| Musical notes |
|
|
| Musical sound qualities |
|
|
| Makes firmer |
|
|
| Moderates, with "down" |
|
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| Answering-machine sounds |
|
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| Electronic sounds |
|
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| Voice-mail sounds |
|
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| Chimes, e.g. |
|
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| Painting effects |
|
|
| Vocal inflections |
|
|
| Voice-mail prompts |
|
|
| Cosmetologist's concerns |
|
|
| Color wheel display |
|
|
| Improves the definition of |
|
|
| Subdues, with "down" |
|
|
| Blind Melon "___ of Home" |
|
|
| Glenn Campling band ___ on Tail |
|
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| Shades |
|
|
| Strengthens, with "up" |
|
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| Subdues, with "down" |
|
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| Strengthens |
|
|
| Moderates, with "down" |
|
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| Firms |
|
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| Moderates, with "down" |
|
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| Strengthens |
|
|
| Firms |
|
|
| Distinct musical sounds |
|
|
| Vocal qualities |
|
|
| Conditions, with "up" |
|
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| Vocal inflections |
|
|
| Answering-machine sounds |
|
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| Colorations |
|
|
| Color variations |
|
|
| Pitches |
|
|
| Hues or pitches |
|
|
| Voice mail prompts |
|
|
| Color variations |
|
|
| Color gradations |
|
|
| Steps on the scale? |
|
|
| Moderates, with "down" |
|
|
| Color variations |
|
|
| Shapes up |
|
|
| Notes |
|
|
| Sounds or colors |
|
|
| Musical sounds |
|
|
| Hearing-test bits |
|
|
| Scale parts |
|
|
| Color qualities |
|
|
| Chromatic nuances |
|
|
| Musical qualities |
|
|
| Color qualities |
|
|
| Firms (up) |
|
|
| Sound qualities |
|
|
| Musical sounds |
|
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| Musical sounds |
|
|
| Musical pitches |
|
|
| Musical pitches |
|
|
| Does many repetitions with low weights |
|
|
| See 49-Across |
|
|
| Distinct musical sounds |
|
|
| The sounds of music |
|
|
| Shapes up, as muscles |
|
|
| Strengthens |
|
|
| Ecru, mauve, et al. |
|
|
| Shapes up |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Sounds or colors |
|
|
| Color qualities |
|
|
| Musical pitches |
|
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| Improves, as one's muscles |
|
|
| Steps on a scale |
|
|
| They may be pear-shaped |
|
|
| Dos and others |
|
|
| Phone button sounds |
|
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| Sounds of music |
|
|
| Gets fit |
|
|
| Earth __ (browns) |
|
|
| They may be pear-shaped |
|
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| Dispositions |
|
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| Shadings |
|
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| Vocal manners |
|
|
| Makes muscles mightier |
|
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| Sounds of music |
|
|
| Salon selections |
|
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| Chromatic nuances |
|
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| Musical pitches |
|
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| Scale composition |
|
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| Steps on a scale |
|
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| Accents |
|
|
| Sound qualities |
|
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| Sounds |
|
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| Musical sounds |
|
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| Chromatic nuances |
|
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| Musical pitches |
|
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| Shadings |
|
|
| Sounds |
|
|
| Vocal sounds |
|
|
| Softens, with "down" |
|
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| Staff notes? |
|
|
| Dialing sounds |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Manners of speaking |
|
|
| Moderates, with "down" |
|
|
| Softens, with "down" |
|
|
| Steps on a scale |
|
|
| Subdues, with "down" |
|
|
| Busy signals, e.g. |
|
|
| Inflections |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Pitch steps |
|
|
| Modulates, with "down" |
|
|
| Firms muscles |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Hues |
|
|
| Firms muscles |
|
|
| Sound qualities |
|
|
| Color wheel display |
|
|
| Chromatic nuances |
|
|
| Earth ____ (browns) |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Notes |
|
|
| Mutes, with "down" |
|
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| General drifts |
|
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| Pastels |
|
|
| Softens, with "down" |
|
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| Distinct musical sounds |
|
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| Musical sounds |
|
|
| Vocal inflections |
|
|
| Coloratura or color variations |
|
|
| Answering machine signals |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Color wheel choices |
|
|
| Sounds of music |
|
|
| Colorings |
|
|
| Does many repetitions with low weights |
|
|
| Musical qualities |
|
|
| Steps on a scale? |
|
|
| Colorings |
|
|
| Color or coloratura variations |
|
|
| Shadings |
|
|
| Mellows, with "down" |
|
|
| Apt anagram for notes |
|
|
| Pitches |
|
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| Dial sounds |
|
|
| Library holdings |
|
|
| Musical sounds |
|
|
| Shades |
|
|
| Firms (up) |
|
|
| Some are pear-shaped |
|
|
| Musical sounds |
|
|
| Demitints, e.g. |
|
|
| Sounds |
|
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| Vocal qualities |
|
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| Shades |
|
|
| Hi-fi buffs' concerns |
|
|
| Blends |
|
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| Parts of chords |
|
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| Gamut constituents |
|
|
| Stereo owners' concerns |
|
|
| Flat and sharp |
|
|
| Inflections |
|
|
| Firms up |
|
|
| Colors |
|
|
| Works on a photo |
|
|
| Painter's effects |
|
|
| Color variations |
|
|
| Works on a photo print |
|
|
| Appropriate anagram for notes |
|
|
| ___ down (softens) |
|
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| Hues |
|
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| Resonant sounds |
|
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| Moderates, with "down" |
|
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| Color qualities |
|
|
| ___ down (modifies) |
|
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| Moods |
|
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| Pitches |
|
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| Sounds. |
|
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| Painting effects |
|
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| Hues. |
|
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| Shadings. |
|
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| Inflections. |
|
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| Modifies in color. |
|
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| Does a little weightlifting, e.g. |
|
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| Color effects. |
|
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| Modulations. |
|
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| Accents. |
|
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| Sound qualities. |
|
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| Color values. |
|
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| Distinctive styles. |
|
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| Voice inflections. |
|
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| Vocal sounds. |
|
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| Musical pitches. |
|
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| Modulations of the voice. |
|
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| Shades of color. |
|
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| Shades. |
|
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| Color qualities. |
|
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| Values of color. |
|
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| Musical effects. |
|
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| Inflections of the voice. |
|
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| Voice mail prompts |
|
|
| Tightens up |
|
|
| Musical sounds |
|
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| Ambient music selections |
|
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| Vocal qualities. |
|
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