The Clue
Clear (4 letter answer)
The Answer
PURE
Tags
Notes
The answer PURE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 170 puzzles.
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Chaste
Flawless
Genuine
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Simon-___
Spotless
Unadulterated
Unalloyed
Undiluted
Unmixed
Unsullied
Untouched
Utter
Virginal
24-karat
All-natural
Free from defects
Like Galahad
Like Simon
Out-and-out
Sheer; simple
Simple's partner
Without defects
24-karat, goldwise
Containing no admixtures
Like the driven snow
"Blessed are the ___ . . . ": Matt. 5:8
Like 24-karat gold
Definition
PURE as an adjective:
1. free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
2. (arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated) = without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
3. concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
4. (saturated, pure) = (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
5. free from discordant qualities
6. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
7. (pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous) = in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"