The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SIFT
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More clues leading to the result SIFT
- Sort of condition that’s set in stone
- Filter paper is raised aloft
- Examine fellow found hiding in hold
- What posers do, including following riddle
- Separate Lives reviewed by newspaper
- Examine condition in street
- Sort through one’s mounting paper
- Screen, if getting in the way
- Person revered pens poem and riddle
- Riddle involves a Kipling poem, in a way
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