CONTRACTION: "[fails to be]" Crossword Clue

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CONTRACTION: "[fails to be]" Crossword Answer

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AINT

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

CONTRACTION (noun)
1. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
2. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

AINT
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More Missing Letter Crossword (7/27/2026) Answers

Across

1. ADJECTIVE: "involving the possibility of...danger"

6. Big boss at a big company

9. Carry ___ (sing well)

10. Part of a post-working plan

11. ADVERB: "in some future time or state"

13. NOUN: "a place where persons or things are carried across a body of water (such as a river) in a boat"

14. ADJECTIVE: "shaped like a circle that is longer than it is wide"

19. Ocasek of Cars fame

20. NOUN: "the side (as of a ship)...that is sheltered from the wind"

21. NOUN: "a Scottish Highlander"

23. VERB: "to plunge into water intentionally and especially headfirst"

24. Savory gelatin

26. NOUN: "a boneless [food bird] stuffed into a boneless [food bird] stuffed into a boneless [food bird]"

30. “Where ___ you?”

31. Reagan Cabinet member

32. NOUN: "a Keres people occupying a pueblo in northwestern New Mexico"

33. NOUN: "a mark (as on a map or signboard) to indicate direction"

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Down

1. Old-school cheer

2. Ending for Wisconsin or Wyoming

3. NOUN: "the amount of [space] covered by...something"

4. VERB: "to position the body so that one or both [leg joints] rest on the floor"

5. NOUN: "a period of time (such as the usually 9-month period in which a school is in session)"

6. NOUN: "[an urban] dweller especially of stylish and well-groomed appearance or sophisticated mannerisms"

7. PREPOSITION: "preceding in time "

8. Boathouse decor item

12. Part of TGIF

14. Dot follower, often

15. PREPOSITION: "by way of"

17. Calif. neighbor

18. Casual shirt

22. Trippy stuff

23. Person in the kitchen, sometimes

25. NOUN: "a large powerful tawny-brown cat...formerly widespread in the Americas but now reduced in number"

26. "Devil" of cartoon fame

27. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "canton of central Switzerland south of Lake of Lucerne; capital Altdorf"

28. "That," in Spain

29. ADJECTIVE: "having been seen, used, or known for a short time"

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