Wind down Crossword Clue

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Wind down Crossword Answer

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ABATE

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(noun)
1. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
2. the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
(verb)
1. bring to an end or halt
2. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of

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
WIND (verb)
1. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
2. catch the scent of; get wind of
WIND (noun)
1. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
2. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ABATE
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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More Missing Letter Crossword (1/25/2026) Answers

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5. Vascular tissue in plants

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14. Former Georgia senator Sam

15. Reversible name of athleticwear

16. Lawyer Clooney

17. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "William circa 1645–1701...Scottish pirate"

18. “Buffalo Stance” singer Cherry

19. Half, say

20. NOUN: "a Persian religion founded in the sixth century b.c..., promulgated in the Avesta, and characterized by worship of a supreme god Ahura Mazda who requires good deeds for help in his cosmic struggle against the evil spirit Ahriman"

24. Mohawked figure of the 1980s

25. NOUN: "partial steriliz[ing] of a substance and especially a liquid (such as milk) at a temperature and for a period of exposure that destroys objectionable organisms without major chemical alteration of the substance"

33. Cents and milliliters, say

34. Thin fish

35. Pen’s tip

37. Prefix meaning "clean," in product names

38. Certain Arabian Peninsula native

39. Quadri-, when doubled

40. INTERJECTION: "used to express the sound of a [spasmodic inhalation]"

41. NOUN: "the [people], [things], or [ideas] that [are] present or near in place, time, or thought"

42. First month of the year, in Chile

43. NOUN: "control of one's emotions or reactions especially when under stress"

46. ADJECTIVE SUFFIX: "of, relating to, or characterized by"

47. All-consonant "Senses Working Overtime" band

48. NOUN: "the prosecution of a person for a second time for the same offense"

56. Stone or Myers

57. Part of many SF addresses

58. Abbr. on a mountain sign

60. NOUN: "the lower end of the leg of a chair or table"

61. More dry, poetically

62. A, in Austria

63. NOUN: "a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together"

64. Get rid of, as waste material

65. Dept. of Commerce branch

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Down

1. Turkey's cap.

2. NOUN: "a short oral or written test"

3. VERB: "to open or loosen by releasing a fastening"

4. Speedy Mario

5. NOUN: "an idyllic, exotic, or luxurious place"

6. Part of YSL

7. NOUN: "fuzz consisting especially of fine ravelings and short fibers of yarn and fabric"

8. At any point

9. NOUN: "the flesh of a dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) used for food"

10. Self-doubting question

11. My, in Montreal

12. PLURAL NOUN: "leg[s]"

13. Like many schools (abbr.)

21. Bills to take to poker night

22. Singing and dancing, say

25. Word on a door

26. Diarist Nin

27. Dating from

28. COMMUNICATIONS CODE WORD: "used as a code word for the [eighteenth] letter"

29. Announcement during some card games

30. Actor Billy and pioneer Ebenezer

31. "___ Was a Beehive" (2015 movie)

32. NOUN: "an oily explosive poisonous liquid"

36. NOUN: "a timely benefit"

38. "You can't be serious"

39. ADVERB OR ADJECTIVE: "in a movie or a television program"

41. Non-stick cookware brand

42. It is, in Nicaragua

44. Drink alcohol

45. VERB: "to carry or send (something, such as a commodity) to some other place (such as another country)"

48. Go against

49. 1866 Herman Melville novel

50. "I guess that'd work"

51. NOUN: "a computer file format for the compression and storage of digital images"

52. To be, to many Belgians

53. Singles

54. 552

55. Yearnings

59. NOUN: "a person qualified and authorized to practice [animal] medicine"

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