Mother-of-pearl Crossword Clue

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Mother-of-pearl Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MOTHER-OF-PEARL (noun)
1. the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell
PEARL (noun)
1. a shape that is spherical and small
2. a shade of white the color of bleached bones
PEARL (verb)
1. gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean

Hint 3: Anagram

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CANER

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Across

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6. Thermometers, barometers, etc.

13. Combative frame of mind

20. Fingerprint feature

21. Windpipe

22. Medical condition more common in fiction than in real life

23. Like the I-29 and I-94 highways?

25. Finds hilarious, perhaps

26. "Good enough"

27. Strong warning, figuratively

29. Forest floor feature

30. For fear that

31. Faucet attachments

33. Hot and dry

36. Blackpool bloke

37. Year in a Kubrick film, in letters

40. Criticized annoyingly

41. Repeat mindlessly

44. Personality test?

49. Secondary emphasis for students majoring in Gorgonzola?

52. Savor

53. Plainly visible

55. Aggrieved feeling

56. Bond, say

57. Engage in revolution

58. Asner and O’Neill

59. Puts in the ground?

60. Mammal that yields a perfume ingredient

61. Decimal fraction

63. They may accompany ifs and buts

64. Ball holder

65. Cause of lip irritation, for some?

69. Pump purchase

72. Shoreline structure

74. Bias

75. Bedeck

77. Do some book repair

80. Crowlike bird

83. Bond, say

84. “I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way” speaker

85. Clementine cousin

86. Unyielding

88. Photoshop tool

89. Cruise for drummers?

91. Part of a Latin dance duo?

93. "For shame!"

94. Tropical starch source

95. Ltr. holder

97. Harbor sights

98. Budding

101. Manual audience

103. Hand holders?

107. Sign of health

109. Gourmet chips ingredient

112. Ballet need

114. Knocking sound

117. Kinshasa railroad crossing?

119. Womb-related

120. River paddler

121. Gave an edge to

122. Cuts in half

123. “I don’t want to hear the details!”

124. Pieces of punditry

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Down

1. Really bad

2. Triangle or trapezoid

3. Does a mailroom chore

4. Crop problem

5. Unappealing food

6. Juicing juice

7. History topic

9. Major split

10. Wheeling's river

11. Pay for a pad

12. Long stories

13. Disney's Pumbaa, e.g

14. Latin lover’s word

15. Gene messenger

16. Prefix suggesting endlessness

17. Poet’s not-quite-rhyming technique

18. Acapulco aunts

19. Boaters, e.g.

24. Uncritically enthusiastic

28. Diamond figures

32. Become harder to climb

34. Worshipful

35. Place back in custody

36. Attack from all sides

38. Seething

39. Words of understanding

42. Somewhat bad

43. Goes astray

44. Belch

45. Bottled spirit

46. Savory ovoid

47. Ceremony

48. Traveling in an Airstream, say

50. Neither Rep. nor Dem

51. QB mistakes

54. A fan of

57. Critic’s unit

62. “___ a Liar” (song by the Bee Gees)

63. Game opener

65. Emergency transport

66. Bravo preceder

67. Gibe

68. Like some tuition

69. V member

70. "As You Like It" forest

71. Derisive sound

72. Text in hopes of a reply

73. Precious bars

75. Bushy dos

76. Tiresome task

77. Bob alternative

78. Aphrodite’s offspring

79. Folding money

80. The beginning

81. Coding pioneer Lovelace

82. Hourly rate

87. Former boys

88. Prods

90. Brother of Electra

92. Care for

96. Crass

99. In the know

100. Carpet securers

102. Feed as a fire

103. Put ___ to (end)

104. Cologne's river

105. Took part in a stock exchange?

106. Puts in the mail?

107. Vittles

108. Sol followers

110. Suds source

111. Taylor-Joy of "Furiosa"

113. Repeat mindlessly

115. Peculiarity

116. Kitchen invader

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