The Clue
Family map (4 letter answer)
The Answer
TREE
Tags
Notes
The answer TREE is very common and appears about once every 28 puzzles.
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Family ___
Liberty ___
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Baobab or gingko
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Catalpa or paulownia
Clothes or Christmas
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Forest unit
Genealogist's work
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"Go climb a ___"
Hornbeam, e.g.
Kind of diagram
Kind of house
Kind of surgeon
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Lumber source
Palm, e.g.
Palm or pine
Papaw or persea
Peach or apple
Poplar, e.g.
Rowan, e.g.
Shade provider
Shoe follower
Shoe insert
Shoe support
Arbor Day plant
Bay or bring to bay
Cheshire cat's place
Chimp's nesting place
Every family has one
Kind of sparrow or swallow
What Daphne became
Word with hat or shoe
Arboreal creature with sticky feet
Brown creepers creep on this
Devil's walking-stick, e.g.
Devil's-walking-stick, e.g.
It may require surgery
"Liberty ___," ballad by Thomas Paine
Definition
TREE as a noun:
1. a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
2. (tree, tree diagram) = a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"
3. (Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree) = English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
TREE as a verb:
1. (corner, tree) = force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
2. plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"
3. chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"
4. (tree, shoetree) = stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree