Digging tool Crossword Clue

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Digging tool Crossword Answer

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SPADE

(5 letters)

PICKAXE

(7 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a machine for excavating
2. the quantity a shovel can hold
(verb)
1. dig with or as if with a shovel

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DIGGING (noun)
1. the act of digging
TOOL (verb)
1. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
2. drive
TOOL (noun)
1. the means whereby some act is accomplished
2. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

SPADE
(5 letters)
PICKAXE
(7 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
HOVELS

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23. Clothing

26. Kendall Jenner's mom

27. British honorific

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32. Wire thorn (Note letters 4-2 of this answer + letters 5-4 of 11-Down)

33. Singer Clay

34. Seeks the favor of

35. Smoothie berry

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37. Figurative expression

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40. Rotten Tomatoes contributors

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43. Erupt

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47. Chaos (Note letters 5-3 of this answer + letters 6-5 of 25-Down)

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56. Cut back

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Down

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3. Golfer Ernie

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24. Threesome

25. Settle a score

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29. Hitter's stats

31. Shape atop a Dairy Queen cone

32. Abandons a commitment

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42. Tack on a wall

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