ABBREVIATION: "a major administrative division of a government" Crossword Clue

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ABBREVIATION: "a major administrative division of a government" Crossword Answer

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DEPT

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

GOVERNMENT (noun)
1. the act of governing; exercising authority
2. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
ABBREVIATION (noun)
1. a shortened form of a word or phrase
2. shortening something by omitting parts of it

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DEPT
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More Missing Letter Crossword (5/14/2026) Answers

Across

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6. Part of BA or ERA

9. Share an opinion with

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11. NOUN: "a Bantu language...of Eastern Cape province"

12. Company whose drivers dress in brown

13. NOUN: "any of a genus...of spherical or ovoid chiefly nonmotile and parasitic gram-positive bacteria"

15. Ski resort near Snowbird

17. NOUN: "a witty or funny observation or response usually made on the spur of the moment"

20. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Tyrus Raymond 1886–1961 Ty American baseball player"

21. VERB: "to open or loosen by releasing a fastening"

22. NOUN: "precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow"

23. ADJECTIVE: "cooled by [frozen water]"

24. Aim to lure, perhaps

26. VERB: "set down in the form of a note"

28. Words before vie or cologne

31. Abbr. on some Monopoly cards

32. Fairy tale beasts

33. VERB: "to prohibit especially by legal means"

34. While My Guitar Gently ___

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Down

1. Bread for the feds, often

2. 'This is so irritating!'

3. ADJECTIVE: "[suffering from] superficial or deep freezing of the tissues of some part of the body (such as the feet or hands)"

4. Worth experimenting with, as a hypothesis

5. NOUN: "the period of about 3651/4 solar days required for one revolution of the earth around the sun"

6. NOUN: "a method of relieving pain or curing illness by placing needles into a person's skin at particular points on the body"

7. NOUN: "a high official with special privileges"

8. NOUN: "a fluid (such as air) that has neither independent shape nor volume but tends to expand indefinitely"

14. NOUN: "material or articles used in...an operation or activity"

15. German exclamation

16. NOUN: "a genus of African filarial worms of the family Onchocercidae that infect the subcutaneous tissues and blood of humans"

18. Chemist's suffix

19. NOUN: "an elongated dry fruit that develops from one or more carpels of a flower"

25. NOUN: "the cry of a cat"

26. Poke

27. PLURAL NOUN: "female gametes"

30. Suffix with lion or leopard

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