COMBINING FORM: "strange; foreign" Crossword Clue

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COMBINING FORM: "strange; foreign" Crossword Answer

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XEN

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

COMBINING (noun)
1. the act of combining things to form a new whole
2. an occurrence that results in things being united
FOREIGN (adjective)
1. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
2. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

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EXON

More Missing Letter Crossword (7/8/2026) Answers

Across

1. ADJECTIVE: "amusing and very strange"

6. VERB: "to gain possession of"

9. NOUN: "a maneuver in snowboarding in which the rider transfers weight from the front to the back foot to snap the board up off the ground"

10. UN agency concerned with workplaces

11. NOUN: "material resources affording a secure life"

12. ABBREVIATION: "the first month of the Gregorian calendar"

13. NOUN: "a curved part of a path (as of a stream or road)"

14. Feeling of hunger or guilt

15. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city, port on an inlet of the Atlantic, and capital of Angola population 6,000,000"

17. NOUN: "a song or hymn of grief or lamentation"

18. NOUN: "an earthy substance containing oxides of iron...used as a pigment"

20. VERB: "to fasten to some elevated point without support from below"

21. ADJECTIVE: "immediately adjacent (as in place, rank, or time)"

25. Classic record label

26. Feature of many game shows

27. Nitwit

28. NOUN: "lacking significance, meaning, or point"

29. NOUN: "one who has personal enmity for another"

30. "A Real American Hero" action figure

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Down

1. Starter home?

2. ADVERB: "on or toward the...side (as of a ship) or area that is sheltered from the wind"

3. NOUN: "a Celtic group especially in the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor"

4. NOUN: "dry twigs, pieces of paper, etc., that burn easily and are used to start a fire"

5. NOUN: "an affirmative reply"

6. 1997 movie whose title plays on 30-Across

7. NOUN: "either of two large African antelopes...bovine in form with short spirally twisted horns in both sexes"

8. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "islands in the southwestern Pacific east of Fiji"

14. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Niccolò 1782–1840 Italian violinist"

16. NOUN: "a closed container with a faucet near the bottom which is used to serve hot drinks"

17. Actress Richards of "The World Is Not Enough"

18. Bundle, as of wheat

19. "You are not!" rejoinder

22. Key for Dvorak's "Serenade for Strings" (abbr.)

24. Lemon or cherry, say

26. Notable Notaro

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