Clues starting with ‘A’
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March 28, 2025
A Krazy Klue!
May 3, 2025
A North American tyrant flycatcher…spelled like a tiny Paul Rubens thing missing a letter
May 16, 2025
A Piña Colada has ____, pineapple and rum in it. Make mine a ‘virgin’. Yum!
September 17, 2025
A ___ is a pace after a trot, but before a gallop.
July 11, 2025
A ____ (northern waterbird) has a lonesome cry.
September 9, 2025
A ____ can be a small alcove in a wall, or a special place you fit in.
July 16, 2025
A ____ could be a play that flopped, or something used in warfare.
July 15, 2025
A ____ has a stubby tail; hence, its name.
September 13, 2025
A ____ is 1/100th of a dollar.
August 28, 2025
A ____ is a 3-masted sailing ship; not to be confused with the 4-quart liquid measure.
August 3, 2025
A ____ is a Buddhist monk.
September 8, 2025
A ____ is a Canadian $2 bill.
August 19, 2025
A ____ is a Mexican covered porch.
August 2, 2025
A ____ is a Swiss ‘state’.
July 30, 2025
A ____ is a Tibetan or Buddhist monk.
September 24, 2025
A ____ is a beautiful, showy flower.
August 11, 2025
A ____ is a bird’s ‘all-purpose’ hole.
September 4, 2025
A ____ is a fatty or waxy substance.
August 21, 2025
A ____ is a generally an otter’s den.
August 25, 2025
A ____ is a hard wind.
August 3, 2025
A ____ is a holeless, unboiled bagel, basically.
August 24, 2025
A ____ is a kind of riddle; probably the most quoted one is ‘what is the sound of one hand clapping?’
July 28, 2025
A ____ is a lively dance, usually part of a suite of dances.
August 4, 2025
A ____ is a lowly worker.
August 15, 2025
A ____ is a marsupial and not really a ‘bear’.
August 20, 2025
A ____ is a person, place or thing.
August 15, 2025
A ____ is a punctuation mark.
September 4, 2025
A ____ is a set of three DNA bases. ( Think ‘fish-fry’ fish + ‘not off’).
August 13, 2025
A ____ is a single Russian pancake.
July 31, 2025
A ____ is a small Italian restaurant.
June 19, 2025
A ____ is a small bird from New Zealand, and one of the SB’s favorite words!
August 19, 2025
A ____ is a tall reedy marsh plant whose leaves can be woven for mats or chair seats
June 7, 2025
A ____ is a teacher, primarily with a moral purpose, like Aesop.
July 17, 2025
A ____ is a teeny, tiny representation of something larger.
August 22, 2025
A ____ is a thin wooden rod.
July 26, 2025
A ____ is a wizard or magician.
August 10, 2025
A ____ is an Australian wild dog.
September 7, 2025
A ____ is an ‘adult toy’.
August 11, 2025
A ____ is either a proton or a neutron.
October 18, 2025 • September 16, 2025
A ____ is so named because its bloom lasts only 24 hours.
August 27, 2025
A ____ is the pointy part of a fishhook.
July 31, 2025
A ____ is the strip of wood found behind the plaster in a wall.
August 25, 2025
A ____ is the underside spool of thread on a sewing machine.
September 13, 2025
A ____ is the ‘upside-down’ tree from Africa.
September 13, 2025
A ____ is, basically, a new conservative.
August 28, 2025
A ____ is, basically, a pair.
August 11, 2025
A ____ was a popular instrument several hundred years ago; not so much anymore.
August 4, 2025
A ______ is a toasted sandwich made with Italian bread, often in a ______ press
April 27, 2025
A baby is an ____.
September 21, 2025
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