The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EGGHEADS
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More clues leading to the result EGGHEADS
- Smart people – for example: grand masters in charge
- Quiz programme essentially needs two good captains
- Boffins say good boss succeeded
- Chief gets in breakfast foods for intellectuals
- Quiz experts beaten at breakfast?
- Boffins, for example, with good leaders
- Urge school principals to become intellectuals
- Clever people say he will interrupt wanderings
- Small breakfast nuts for those of brainbox breed
- Bank once on call in TV quiz show
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What does EGGHEADS mean?
EGGHEADS noun- A bald person, especially a man.
- A bald head.
- A coldly out of personal touch intellectual.