The Clue
Beaut (3 letter answer)
The Answer
GEM
Tags
Notes
The answer GEM is seen frequently, appearing about once every 130 puzzles.
Related Clues
Beauty
Bijou
Diamond
Jewel
Muffin
Prize
Pip
Rare one
Solitaire
Sparkler
Treasure
Absolute beauty
Aquamarine, e.g.
Cameo, e.g.
Expensive stone
Kind of muffin
Lapidary's interest
Opal or garnet
Peridot or tigereye
Prized asset
Prized object
Real beauty
Ring insert
Ring rock
Ruby, e.g.
Sapphire. e.g.
Shining example
Special person
Tiara component
Tourmaline or peridot
The Blue Carbuncle, to Holmes
Highly prized person
Its setting is a setting
Thing on a ring
Lapidarist's object of study
Word for a good domestic
It has its setting
It might be examined with a loupe
Definition
GEM as a noun:
1. (gem, gemstone, stone) = a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
2. (gem, treasure) = art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
3. (jewel, gem) = a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry
4. (muffin, gem) = a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
5. (jewel, gem, precious stone) = a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry