The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word DEN
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More clues leading to the result DEN
- Hideout in which outlaw Kelly retreats
- Study conclusion of Iliad in French
- Boy in study retreating
- Faculty head lacking area for study
- Retreat of French knight
- Daughter in from France finds secluded room
- See 13
- Study essential for gardeners
- Study Old English houses
- Study young Glaswegian thug retrospectively
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What does DEN mean?
DEN noun- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
- To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
- An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
- A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes.
- Person who denies something.
- (temporal location) At that time.
- (temporal location) Soon afterward.
- (sequence) Next in order; in addition.
- In that case.
- (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
- (affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.