Optical instrument must be awfully precise when surgery's involved Crossword Clue

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Here is the answer for the crossword clue Optical instrument must be awfully precise when surgery's involved last seen in Telegraph Cryptic puzzle. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 9 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is PERISCOPE.

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% PERISCOPE Optical instrument must be awfully precise when surgery's involved (9) The Telegraph Cryptic Apr 29, 2016
6% TERRIBLY Awfully (8) The Telegraph Quick Aug 19, 2025
5% LENS Optical device (4) Puzzler Backwords Sep 6, 2025
5% SPEEDREADING Express's lead editor involved in distributing fast optical character recognition? (12) The Times Quick Cryptic Sep 6, 2025
5% UNDER Ready for surgery, perhaps (5) Wall Street Journal Sep 6, 2025
5% DEADON Precisely correct (6) Newsday Sep 5, 2025
5% ORS Surgery sites, for short (3) USA Today Sep 4, 2025
5% RIGOR Strict precision (5) Wall Street Journal Aug 30, 2025
5% EXACTO Spanish "precise" (6) Newsday Aug 24, 2025
5% TOATEE Precisely (6) Wall Street Journal Aug 23, 2025

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