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The Clue
Circus star with a whip (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TAMER
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Notes
The answer TAMER is seen frequently, appearing about once every 190 puzzles.
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Definition
TAMER as a noun:
1. an animal trainer who tames wild animals
TAME as an adjective:
1. flat and uninspiring
2. very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
3. (tame, tamed) = brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
4. (meek, tame) = very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes