Cut down Crossword Clue

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AXED

(4 letters)

HEWN

(4 letters)

PARE

(4 letters)

ABASE

(5 letters)

HEWED

(5 letters)

SLASH

(5 letters)

SLAIN

(5 letters)

PARED

(5 letters)

FELL

(4 letters)

LESSEN

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. make or shape as with an axe
2. strike with an axe; cut down, strike

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down
CUT (noun)
1. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
2. the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
CUT (verb)
1. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
2. cut down on; make a reduction in
CUT (adjective)
1. made neat and tidy by trimming
2. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

AXED
(4 letters)
HEWN
(4 letters)
PARE
(4 letters)
ABASE
(5 letters)
HEWED
(5 letters)
SLASH
(5 letters)
SLAIN
(5 letters)
PARED
(5 letters)
FELL
(4 letters)
LESSEN
(6 letters)

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Down

1. Start for boy or girl

2. Nursery sight

3. A bunch

4. Understand instinctively

5. Flower in the coffee family

6. Had something

7. 'I'm game!'

8. After dark, perhaps

9. Catherine of "Beetlejuice"

10. Incapable of change

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12. Desperate transmission

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22. Curator's focus

24. Bank, say

26. This evening, in ads

27. Grammar topic

28. Cartographer

29. Each

30. Look at the past

31. Move like a cat

38. Holiday in décembre

39. Justin Trudeau, for one

40. Wrinkle-resistant, as a shirt

46. Pasture call

47. Corn pancake

48. Proves false

49. Badgered

51. Second prime

54. Petrol purveyor

56. To be, to Sartre

57. Proctor’s call

58. Job for a center

59. Thurman of "Kill Bill"

60. Naughty deed

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