The Clue
Madison and Montgomery, e.g. (8 letter answer)
The Answer
CAPITALS
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Notes
The answer CAPITALS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2900 puzzles.
Related Clues
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London and Paris, e.g.
They can be produced by shifting
Definition
CAPITAL as a noun:
1. (capital, working capital) = assets available for use in the production of further assets
2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
3. a seat of government
4. (capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule) = one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
5. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
6. (Capital, Washington) = the federal government of the United States
7. (Das Kapital, Capital) = a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
8. (capital, chapiter, cap) = the upper part of a column that supports the entablature