The Clue
Between quinque and septem (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SEX
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Notes
The answer SEX is seen frequently, appearing about once every 180 puzzles.
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Gender
"___ sells"
Application datum
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One is called fair
Censor's subject
Census datum
Census detail
Census entry
Comfort's "The Joy of ___"
ID datum
ID information
Kind of pot?
Kind of roles
Kinsey topic
Madonna book
Masters focus
Parts of mins.
"PG" cause
Questionnaire datum
Questionnaire info
Safe follower
One of Alex Comfort's topics
Birth certificate info
Cause for an R rating
Driver's license datum
Driver's license info
Kind of scene in a movie
Master-Johnson subject
Reason for an R rating
Reason for an X rating
"___ sells" (advertising catchphrase)
Source of an androgyne's confusion
Cause for a TV-MA rating
James Brown hit "___ Machine"
Make more alluring, with "up"
Number between quinque and septem
Subject of many a political scandal
What an "F" may indicate
Definition
SEX as a noun:
1. (sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity) = activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"
2. either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"
3. (sex, sexual urge) = all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence"
4. (sex, gender, sexuality) = the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
SEX as a verb:
1. (arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up) = stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
2. tell the sex (of young chickens)