NOUN: "a hard protuberance with twisted grain on a tree" Crossword Clue

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NOUN: "a hard protuberance with twisted grain on a tree" Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. make complaining remarks or noises under one’s breath
2. twist into a state of deformity
(noun)
1. something twisted and tight and swollen

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PROTUBERANCE (noun)
1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
2. the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
TWISTED (adjective)
1. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

More Missing Letter Crossword (7/31/2026) Answers

Across

1. NOUN: "a specific duty, role, or function"

4. NOUN: "a list of items (such as topics or names) treated in a printed work that gives for each item the page number where it may be found"

9. NOUN: "a cutting tool that consists of a heavy edged head fixed to a handle"

10. ADJECTIVE: "smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated"

11. ABBREVIATION: "a period of 100 years"

12. Middle Eastern capital

13. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city on the Dnieper River in Ukraine population 2,800,000"

15. Hank Williams' "There'll ___ Teardrops Tonight"

16. Group of 100

20. ADJECTIVE: "having an unpleasantly nervous or doubtful feeling"

23. NOUN: "a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Natal"

26. NOUN: "a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind"

27. Words in shoe prices

29. NOUN: "a usually small computer memory that contains special-purpose information (such as a program) which cannot be altered"

30. VERB: "analyze critically"

31. PREPOSITION: "preceding in time "

32. Journalist Lesley

33. Director Wiseman

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Down

1. Strong poker pair

2. NOUN: "any of several composite plants (as of the genera Leucanthemum or Heliopsis) having heads with both disk and ray flowers"

3. Annette in "Dutton Ranch"

4. "This ___ travesty!"

5. ADJECTIVE: "restrict[ed] to a definite [amount]"

6. Judi Dench, e.g.

7. "Westworld" actress ___ Rachel Wood

8. COMBINING FORM: "foreign"

14. VERB: "to defeat in a conflict"

17. NOUN: "the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet "

19. NOUN: "an evergreen shrub or tree...with small yellow flowers, fruits that are ovoid blackish berries, and evergreen foliage once used by the ancient Greeks to crown victors in the Pythian games"

21. Annoy your bedmate, maybe

22. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country in southern Arabia bordering on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden"

23. Gets with a laser

24. __ the crack of dawn

25. Tomb-raiding Croft

28. Like some clauses (abbr.)

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