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noun • a worker who teases wool • someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) • an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest • a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution • an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show • a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings • a device for teasing wool | ||||
| 98% | 5 | Exact Match! | ||
noun • a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not • a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor • a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | ||||
| 97% | 4 | Exact Match! | ||
noun • a tight cluster of people or things • any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object • a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged • (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour • something twisted and tight and swollen • soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design • a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere verb • make into knots; make knots out of • tie or fasten into a knot • tangle or complicate | ||||
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TEASER which was last seen in the Telegraph Quick crossword.
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TEASER
Updated: September 1, 2025
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