The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 1 letter word S
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S
More clues leading to the result S
- Judge keeping African party in session
- French department assisted nine in English translation
- struggled for some time trying to think of a three-letter word for “Ice Age”! The key is to realise you need to separate “Ice” and “Age”.
- - SOLE in OZ could be [unique Down Under], then reverse to get the musical direction.
- the [dead] body is a {g}ONER.
- Gin went quickly once collected by dishonest scheme
- Small whisky in pot and a Bulgarian’s ready
- S
- 9 LEGAL NICETY/SPECULATION
- Short jogging bra finished on time
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What does S mean?
S noun- A weight of 1/288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
- (by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
- A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience.
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to 1/1080 hour.
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- A part of a year when something particular happens
- That which gives relish; seasoning.
- The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
- An extended, undefined period of time.
- The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
- A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries.
- The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
- A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
- (New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
- One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map, abbreviated as S.
- The side of a church on the right hand of a person facing the altar.
- A quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass about 80 to 130 MeV. Symbol: s