| The opposite of lower |
The Telegraph Plusword |
07 Oct 2025 |
| Top (5) |
Mirror Quick |
27 Sep 2025 |
| Superior shoe part (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
27 Sep 2025 |
| Word before deck or hand |
New York Times |
23 Sep 2025 |
| Top (5) |
Mirror Quick |
17 Sep 2025 |
| Superior shoe part (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
17 Sep 2025 |
| With 3-Down, highest levels |
|
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| Higher-ranking |
Commuter |
30 Aug 2025 |
| Shoe part (5) |
Mirror Classic |
12 Aug 2025 |
| Superior part for a trainer, maybe (5) |
|
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| ___ Peninsula (part of Michigan) |
|
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| Hand over foot at the cobblers? (5) |
|
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| ... Hutt, Wellington region city (5) |
|
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| Loftier |
Puzzler Backwords |
29 Jun 2025 |
| Word before hand or deck |
|
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| Advantage: have the - hand |
|
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| Bunk choice |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Jun 2025 |
| Higher power backing up former leader |
|
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| Top (section) |
|
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| Bunk bed option |
Commuter |
31 May 2025 |
| Most of my supper is on your shoe! (5) |
|
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| Top |
Mirror Quick |
24 May 2025 |
| Way over 3 (5) |
|
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| Superior shoe part? (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
24 May 2025 |
| Top |
The Telegraph Mini |
20 May 2025 |
| Tending to be high (5) |
|
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| ____ crust; ____ class |
The Telegraph Plusword |
17 May 2025 |
| Higher leadership missing from meal (5) |
|
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| Topmost |
The Telegraph Mini |
08 May 2025 |
| Kind of crust found only on the best pies? (5) |
|
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| Superior part of the shoe ? (5) |
|
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| Higher |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Superior |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
21 Apr 2025 |
| House, crust or Volta (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Higher of two: - floor |
|
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| Superior meal has no starter (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 Apr 2025 |
| More elevated part of a shoe (5) |
|
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| Part of shoe found on hand (5) |
|
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| Which classes belong in the scuppers? (5) |
|
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| Bunk option |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Mar 2025 |
| What is the part of a boot or shoe above the sole? (5) |
|
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| - class, the aristocracy (5) |
|
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| More elevated (5) |
Puzzler |
25 Feb 2025 |
| Capital case (5) |
|
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| Top part of shoe |
|
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| Aussie comedy about the class system (___-- Middle Bogan) |
|
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| Shoe part that covers the foot |
|
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| One of those things to be down on when one's poor (5) |
|
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| Word before deck or hand |
New York Times |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Superior |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Jan 2025 |
| Stiff ___ lip |
|
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| Top of the loaf for the aristocracy (5,5) |
|
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| Sort of cut a boxer may receive (5) |
|
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| Superior meal, seconds not required (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Nov 2024 |
| Opposite of "lower" |
|
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| Top |
LA Times Mini |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Nearer the top of the class (5) |
|
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| THIS PRINTING CASE IS SUPERIOR (5) |
|
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| Part of a shoe |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
11 Nov 2024 |
| Sole attachment that stimulates one |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Superior meal without starter (5) |
|
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| Higher in position or status (5) |
|
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| Aristocracy, - class |
|
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| About an adopted woman and her biological family (___-- Middle Bogan) |
|
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| Top |
The Sun Mini |
05 Oct 2024 |
| Leading person getting part of shoe (5) |
|
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| Stimulating part of a shoe? (5) |
|
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| Senior eschewing starter in evening meal |
|
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| Superior kind of cut |
|
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| Historical region of Poland and Czech Republic, _ Silesia (5) |
|
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| Part of a shoe that covers the foot |
|
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| Opposite of lower |
The Telegraph Mini |
19 Aug 2024 |
| ___ Peninsula (Michigan area bordered by three Great Lakes) |
LA Times Mini |
07 Aug 2024 |
| Part of a shoe above the sole |
Puzzler |
26 Jul 2024 |
| Nicotine, e.g. |
|
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| Better bit of brogue, maybe? (5) |
|
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| Where the bedrooms are situated for the Lords (5,5) |
|
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| Top meal to do without a starter (5) |
|
|
| Higher |
The Telegraph Mini |
04 Jul 2024 |
| Higher shoe part |
Mirror Cryptic |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Superior |
Mirror Quick |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Part above a shoe's sole |
The Times Concise |
21 Jun 2024 |
| Such a cut may be seen in a ring (5) |
|
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| A good hand to have, perhaps. (5) |
|
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| Word before "management" or "Canada" |
|
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| Superior doesn't start evening meal (5) |
|
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| The higher of two (5) |
|
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| This is the House of Lords, a capital case (5) |
|
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| Superior piece of footwear (5) |
|
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| Top |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Apr 2024 |
| Higher in rank, could become purple if learner included? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
19 Apr 2024 |
| - crust, aristocracy (5) |
|
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| Meal without starter is a stimulant (5) |
|
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| Has the ___ hand (advantage) |
|
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| Some suppers contain stimulant (5) |
|
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| Superior part of a shoe (5) |
|
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| Higher (5) |
Puzzler |
29 Mar 2024 |
| Top of class, or hand in supper (5) |
|
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| Like the higher ranking coppers in Peru, possibly |
|
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| The kind of crust found only on the best pies? (5) |
|
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| Part of shoe which cannot be lower (5) |
|
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| With 9-Across, advantage |
|
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| Stimulant, informally |
|
|
| Superior bit of footwear? (5) |
|
|
| Meal doesn't include first part of shoe |
|
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| Drug concealed in part of shoe? |
|
|
| Leading person requires part for a shoe (5) |
|
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| Top protective equipment? Query oddly missing stocks (5) |
|
|
| Word before "class" or "crust" |
Universal |
12 Jan 2024 |
| (and 6 Across) Drug distinctions in echelons of society (5,7) |
|
|
| The _ Hand, British version of Who's The Boss? (5) |
|
|
| Superior meal has no beginning |
|
|
| Part of a shoe |
Mirror Quick |
28 Dec 2023 |
| Superior meal didn't start |
Mirror Cryptic |
28 Dec 2023 |
| Bunk bed choice |
|
|
| In revolt against each superior(5) |
|
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| In revolt against each superior (5) |
|
|
| Be higher in status (5) |
|
|
| Stimulant drug |
The Guardian Quick |
24 Nov 2023 |
| ___ hand, advantageous position |
|
|
| Higher of two |
Newsday |
19 Nov 2023 |
| More elevated |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Oct 2023 |
| Towards the higher end |
The Times Concise |
14 Oct 2023 |
| Top |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Oct 2023 |
| Opposite of lower |
USA Today |
20 Jul 2023 |
| Case that QC and JP are in, but not barristers |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Jun 2023 |
| Higher |
The Telegraph Quick |
10 Jun 2023 |
| Have the __ hand (be at an advantage) |
Newsday |
06 Jun 2023 |
| Superior course in sport backed |
The Times Cryptic |
12 May 2023 |
| Stimulant |
Universal |
16 Mar 2023 |
| __ Peninsula: Michigan home of Yoopers |
LA Times Daily |
08 Mar 2023 |
| Has the ___ hand (advantage) |
|
|
| Opposite of "lower" |
|
|
| Shoe part |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Nov 2022 |
| Top |
Thomas Joseph |
15 Nov 2022 |
| HGTV's "Fixer ___" |
Universal |
13 Nov 2022 |
| Top |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Oct 2022 |
| A stimulant, but no starter for meal |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Oct 2022 |
| A stimulant, but no starter for meal |
|
|
| Have the ___ hand |
USA Today |
19 Oct 2022 |
| Higher |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Oct 2022 |
| Start to cut? |
LA Times Daily |
23 Sep 2022 |
| More elevated |
Universal |
19 Sep 2022 |
| Mood enhancer |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Aug 2022 |
| Higher-ranking |
Premier Sunday |
07 Aug 2022 |
| Word before "hand" or "management" |
Universal |
16 Jul 2022 |
| ___ hand (advantage) |
Universal |
13 Jul 2022 |
| Amphetamine (informal) |
The Guardian Quick |
09 Jun 2022 |
| Part of a shoe |
The Guardian Quick |
28 Apr 2022 |
| Keep a stiff ___ lip |
Universal |
29 Dec 2021 |
| Opposite of "lower" |
|
|
| Fixer-___ |
Universal |
11 Oct 2021 |
| University pressure? A stimulant is the answer |
|
|
| ___ hand (advantage) |
USA Today |
20 Jul 2021 |
| New York City's ___ East Side |
|
|
| Word before "deck" or "echelon" |
Family Time |
29 Mar 2021 |
| Keep a stiff ___ lip |
USA Today |
20 Mar 2021 |
| Opposite of "lower" |
|
|
| Higher |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Dec 2020 |
| Word before class or crust |
Newsday |
29 Oct 2020 |
| The hand that gives one the edge |
|
|
| Word before case or crust |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Oct 2020 |
| Meal without starter as stimulant |
|
|
| Word before hand or jaw |
New York Times |
27 Sep 2020 |
| Stimulant |
LA Times Daily |
06 Sep 2020 |
| Stimulant |
The Washington Post |
06 Sep 2020 |
| Shoe part |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Aug 2020 |
| Superior meal, no seconds required |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Aug 2020 |
| Word with cut or crust |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jul 2020 |
| Word with cut or crust |
The Washington Post |
12 Jul 2020 |
| Stimulant blows head off drinker! |
|
|
| Bunk-bed choice |
Jonesin |
16 Jun 2020 |
| Michigan's __ Peninsula |
LA Times Daily |
23 May 2020 |
| Michigan's __ Peninsula |
The Washington Post |
23 May 2020 |
| Fixer-___ |
USA Today |
11 May 2020 |
| Higher |
Premier Sunday |
10 May 2020 |
| Superior meal with no starter |
Irish Times Crosaire |
01 Feb 2020 |
| Word that comes before "crust" or "hand" (to mean advantage) |
|
|
| Half a set of dentures |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2019 |
| ___ house (Senate, e.g.) |
Universal |
13 Oct 2019 |
| Northern feast to which south not invited |
|
|
| Superior evening meal son polished off |
|
|
| High tea missing starter |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Jul 2019 |
| More northerly |
Newsday |
21 Jul 2019 |
| Higher in position |
The Times Concise |
03 Jun 2019 |
| ___ East Side |
Universal |
06 May 2019 |
| Bunk choice |
Universal |
30 Apr 2019 |
| Part of Oxford University course, right? |
|
|
| Top |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Mar 2019 |
| Word with class or case |
LA Times Daily |
06 Feb 2019 |
| Word with class or case |
The Washington Post |
06 Feb 2019 |
| Bunk bed half |
USA Today |
30 Jan 2019 |
| Bunk bed half |
|
|
| ___ East Side |
|
|
| Word with class or case |
|
|
| Bunk choice |
|
|
| ___ house (Senate, e.g.) |
|
|
| Less desirable berth |
|
|
| Half a set of dentures |
|
|
| Top |
|
|
| Less desirable berth |
USA Today |
25 Dec 2018 |
| Like some management |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Dec 2018 |
| High tea without small starter |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Nov 2018 |
| Amphetamine, informally |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Top berth |
USA Today |
01 Oct 2018 |
| Cut or crust opener |
LA Times Daily |
21 Sep 2018 |
| Cut or crust opener |
The Washington Post |
21 Sep 2018 |
| ___ Egypt (Aswan Dam locale) |
New York Times |
22 Aug 2018 |
| Bunk with a ladder |
LA Times Daily |
15 Aug 2018 |
| Bunk with a ladder |
The Washington Post |
15 Aug 2018 |
| Good hand to have |
Universal |
14 Aug 2018 |
| Word with "hand" |
Universal |
04 Aug 2018 |
| Part of shoe |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Aug 2018 |
| Superior meal, but no starter |
|
|
| Part of boot for hiker? |
|
|
| Top |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 May 2018 |
| Bunk option |
USA Today |
08 May 2018 |
| Berth type |
Universal |
03 May 2018 |
| Opposite of lower |
|
|
| Top berth |
|
|
| Like some management |
|
|
| Amphetamine, informally |
|
|
| Bunk with a ladder |
|
|
| Cut or crust opener |
|
|
| ___ Egypt (Aswan Dam locale) |
|
|
| Berth type |
|
|
| Good hand to have |
|
|
| Word with "hand" |
|
|
| Bunk option |
|
|
| Word before class or crust |
|
|
| High berth on a train |
|
|
| Lower's opposite |
New York Times |
16 Oct 2017 |
| Type of berth or room |
Universal |
10 Aug 2017 |
| Patient on stimulant, capital |
|
|
| Not the sole source of stimulation? |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Jun 2017 |
| Part of Oxford where dinner starts late? |
|
|
| "Lower" antonym |
|
|
| Top pep pill |
|
|
| Michigan's __ Peninsula |
|
|
| Lower's opposite |
|
|
| Word with cut or crust |
|
|
| Type of berth or room |
|
|
| Higher; superior |
The Times Concise |
30 Dec 2016 |
| In an excited state, having taken a stimulant |
|
|
| Top bunk |
Newsday |
22 Nov 2016 |
| A case of dinner without having been properly introduced |
|
|
| Not the sole promoter? |
|
|
| Not the sole promoter? |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Nov 2016 |
| Part of a shoe |
The Guardian Quick |
14 Oct 2016 |
| Drug found in meal, but not initially |
|
|
| Drug found in meal, but not initially |
The Times Cryptic |
09 Sep 2016 |
| Higher bunk-bed berth |
Newsday |
25 Jul 2016 |
| One of two berths |
Universal |
01 Jul 2016 |
| Higher of two |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2016 |
| Superior meal, seconds not required |
|
|
| Stimulant drug that may be laced? |
The Times Cryptic |
26 May 2016 |
| Undesirable berth |
Universal |
22 May 2016 |
| Higher in rank |
The Times Concise |
16 Mar 2016 |
| Superior meal with no starter |
|
|
| Superior meal, not small |
|
|
| Superior meal with no starter |
|
|
| One of two berths |
|
|
| Undesirable berth |
|
|
| Superior missing tip for the meal |
Irish Times Crosaire |
10 Dec 2015 |
| Attachment to sole stimulant |
The Times Cryptic |
01 Dec 2015 |
| Superior part of Oxford? |
|
|
| "Crust" or "hand" starter |
USA Today |
21 Nov 2015 |
| Kind of crust or class |
USA Today |
15 Nov 2015 |
| The hand to have |
USA Today |
19 Oct 2015 |
| Like some dentures |
USA Today |
07 Oct 2015 |
| Has the __ hand |
LA Times Daily |
06 Sep 2015 |
| Like nosebleed seats |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Aug 2015 |
| Word before house or hand |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2015 |
| Higher-ranking |
LA Times Daily |
04 May 2015 |
| Michigan's ___ Peninsula |
New York Times |
21 Apr 2015 |
| Shoe part |
Newsday |
09 Apr 2015 |
| Top |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Apr 2015 |
| One of the bunk beds |
USA Today |
10 Mar 2015 |
| Not starting a meal with drug |
|
|
| One of the bunk beds |
|
|
| Like some dentures |
|
|
| "Crust" or "hand" starter |
|
|
| Michigan's ___ Peninsula |
|
|
| Word before house or hand |
|
|
| ___ crust |
|
|
| Kind of crust or class |
|
|
| Higher-ranking |
|
|
| Northern |
|
|
| Has the __ hand |
|
|
| The hand to have |
|
|
| Shoe part |
|
|
| On the higher side |
|
|
| Higher of two |
|
|
| Word before "crust" or "deck" |
|
|
| Certain Pullman berth |
|
|
| A Pullman berth |
|
|
| Word before "echelon" or "respiratory" |
|
|
| Bunk-bed option |
|
|
| Shoe top |
|
|
| Shoe top |
|
|
| One of Michigan's peninsulas |
|
|
| Bunk reached via ladder |
|
|
| Vamp's locale |
|
|
| Stiff -- lip |
|
|
| Michigan's __ Peninsula |
|
|
| Word with "crust" or "class" |
|
|
| ___ Manhattan |
|
|
| One half of a pair of dentures |
|
|
| Bunk option |
|
|
| Superior meal with no starter |
|
|
| Stimulant |
|
|
| Top berth |
|
|
| Stimulant |
|
|
| Top berth |
|
|
| Berth place |
|
|
| Word with "berth" or "deck" |
|
|
| Word with "class" or "crust" |
|
|
| Berth with a ladder |
|
|
| Berth place |
|
|
| A Pullman berth |
|
|
| Like some echelons |
|
|
| Amphetamine |
|
|
| Like half of a pair of dentures |
|
|
| Topmost |
|
|
| Like some echelons |
|
|
| Less desirable berth |
|
|
| Amphetamine, slangily |
|
|
| Farther north |
|
|
| Lower opposite |
|
|
| Amphetamine |
|
|
| Berth place? |
|
|
| Bunk-bed choice |
|
|
| Boot part |
|
|
| Like one of the two jaws |
|
|
| Caffeine or nicotine |
|
|
| Bunk-bed berth |
|
|
| Berth with a ladder |
|
|
| Berth with a ladder |
|
|
| Like the nosebleed seats |
|
|
| Higher in place |
|
|
| Bunk option |
|
|
| Like some bunks |
|
|
| Berth place |
|
|
| Less desirable berth, perhaps |
|
|
| Berth choice |
|
|
| Pullman berth |
|
|
| Like some bunks |
|
|
| Exhilarating experience |
|
|
| Shoe part |
|
|
| Hand type |
|
|
| ___ Volta (former name of Burkina Faso) |
|
|
| Berth position, perhaps |
|
|
| It's over the lower |
|
|
| Good hand to have |
|
|
| Boot part |
|
|
| Type of hand |
|
|
| The top half |
|
|
| Berth place? |
|
|
| Class for fat cats? |
|
|
| Berth adjective |
|
|
| Type of hand |
|
|
| Word with hand or arm |
|
|
| Word with house or hand |
|
|
| __ crust |
|
|
| Word before crust or hand |
|
|
| __ crust |
|
|
| High berth |
|
|
| Top bunk |
|
|
| Higher |
|
|
| Berth choice |
|
|
| Certain berth |
|
|
| Berth place |
|
|
| Word with cut or class |
|
|
| Shoe part |
|
|
| High berth |
|
|
| High berth |
|
|
| Stimulant |
|
|
| Word before crust or hand |
|
|
| Higher one |
|
|
| Word with berth or plate |
|
|
| Like one of the two jaws |
|
|
| Speed, e.g. |
|
|
| Word before crust or class |
|
|
| Kind of berth |
|
|
| Stimulant |
|
|
| Shoe top |
|
|
| Shoe part |
|
|
| Passenger train feature, maybe |
|
|
| Vamp's place |
|
|
| Speed, e.g. |
|
|
| Word before crust or berth |
|
|
| Class or house preceder |
|
|
| Shoe part connected to the sole |
|
|
| Pullman berth |
|
|
| ___ Nile |
|
|
| Amphetamine |
|
|
| Hand type |
|
|
| Bridge section? |
|
|
| Pullman berth |
|
|
| Word with class or crust |
|
|
| word with class or crust |
|
|
| Class or crust |
|
|
| Like certain dentures |
|
|
| Amphetamine |
|
|
| ___ crust (elite) |
|
|
| Kind of berth |
|
|
| Crust or hand preceder |
|
|
| Word with crust or hand |
|
|
| Kind of house or hand |
|
|
| Kind of crust |
|
|
| Capp's ___ Slobovia |
|
|
| Mich.'s ___ Peninsula |
|
|
| Shoe part |
|
|
| Berth type |
|
|
| Word with case or berth |
|
|
| ___ Matecumbe Key, Fla. |
|
|
| A berth |
|
|
| Gymnast's ___ arm hang |
|
|
| ___ Iowa, Mississippi feeder |
|
|
| Pullman berth |
|
|
| Train bed |
|
|
| Superior |
|
|
| Kind of case |
|
|
| Kind of deck |
|
|
| Kind of cut or crust |
|
|
| Pep pill |
|
|
| ___ Volta |
|
|
| More northerly |
|
|
| Kind of hand or berth |
|
|
| Michigan peninsula |
|
|
| Kind of cut or class |
|
|
| Crust of a sort |
|
|
| Superior. |
|
|
| Shoe part. |
|
|
| Top. |
|
|
| Berth. |
|
|
| ___ crust. |
|
|
| Kind of reaches |
|
|
| Type of berth |
|
|
| ___ deck. |
|
|
| Traveling accommodation. |
|
|
| Locale of Broadway north. |
|
|
| Lowest-priced Pullman accommodation. |
|
|
| Pajama top. |
|
|
| Berth: Colloq. |
|
|
| Train accommodation. |
|
|
| Part of a shoe. |
|
|
| One of the regions. |
|
|
| Kind of story. |
|
|
| ___ hand. |
|
|
| ___ Peninsula. |
|
|
| Farther inland. |
|
|
| Pullman berth. |
|
|
| Innermost. |
|
|