Words to Explore Crossword

Words to Explore is a medium English-language crossword with 30 clues. A mixed Brain Boost with words, everyday knowledge and fresh connections

10 × 10 grid. Play free as a guest, with no download.

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Across

1. Choose not to accept (6)
7. To an excessive degree
8. Muscular organ involved in taste and speech
9. Organizing tools for digital files (7)
10. Go without essential nutrition (6)
12. Large vessel with a narrow neck or decorative form
13. Removed from the record, but not merely crossed out
18. Longs painfully for someone or something
20. A counter where the cuts are more likely cold than editorial
21. Deeply cruel or morally wrong
22. Ways of doing something, or most frequent values in data
23. Prepared area for ice skating
24. By surprise, after taken
25. Flexible containers carried by handles
26. Portable fabric shelters

Down

1. Rotating part of a machine
2. Develops over successive generations, as a species
3. Curved covering over a car wheel (6)
4. Give a push or motivation to act (4)
5. Curved mark asking for smoothly connected notes
6. Looks over, or the features doing the looking
9. Cooling oneself with a rhythmic back-and-forth motion (7)
10. Of the highest quality or excellence (6)
11. Small facts used in general-knowledge quizzes
14. Sun-dried earth building material
15. Enclosed passenger car with a separate boot or trunk
16. Choose by voting
17. Flat circles, such as old floppy media
19. Large North American deer also called wapiti
22. Tangled mass of hair

How to play

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