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The Clue

Certain playing card (5 letter answer)

The Answer

SPADE

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Notes

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

Related Clues

Digger
Spud
One in a suit
One of a suit
Black card
One in a black suit
Bogart role
One in a dark suit
Deck figure
Deck item
Deck part
Digging tool
Earth mover
Farm tool
Fictional detective
Fictional sleuth
Garden tool
Gardener's need
Gardener's tool
Hammett detective
Hammett figure
Hammett hero
Hammett sleuth
Hammett's detective
Sleuth Sam
One of a top suit
1941 Bogart role
Black-suit item
Bogart or Cortez role
Classic Bogart role
Do some gardening
One of a high suit in bridge
Kind of beard or work
Kind of preliminary work
Part of a black suit
Private eye Sam
Three-year-old stag

Definition

SPADE as a noun:

1. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps"
2. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
3. (nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra) = (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"

SPADE as a verb:

1. dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"