A collection of words used in crosswords with meanings that are not always immediately obvious.
This list does not include words already given in the Usual Suspects page
| Word in the clue | Definition |
| BBC | Auntie |
| bizzy / busy | detective |
| bread | cash, money, currency |
| burden | chorus; refrain (the part of a song repeated at the end of every stanza) |
| enemy | time |
| George | autopilot (RAF slang) |
| host | army; religious sacrament |
| house | one of twelve signs of the zodiac or divisions of the heavens in astrology |
| issue | children |
| keen | cry, weep |
| lower(s) | cattle, cow(s) |
| mole | breakwater |
| near | mean, stingy, parsimonious |
| neat | cattle, oxen |
| organ | newspaper |
| ready / readies | cash, dosh, money, currency |
| rhino | cash, dosh, money, currency |
| ruth | pity |
| shock | hair |
| snow leopard | ounce |
| tod | fox (Scottish) |
| Ā | Ā (17) |
Ā Further entries may be be added during periodic updates.
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Created 26 February 2014
Version 1.2; Updated 23 June 2018