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The Clue

Ball of cotton (3 letter answer)

The Answer

WAD

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Notes

The answer WAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.

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Definition

WAD as a noun:

1. a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
2. (batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew) = (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
3. (chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad) = a wad of something chewable as tobacco

WAD as a verb:

1. (pack, bundle, wad, compact) = compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
2. (jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad) = crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"