The Clue
One may take your heart (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
One of a deck
Digger
Spud
Black card
One in a black suit
Bogart role
One in a dark suit
Deck figure
Deck item
Deck part
Digging tool
Ditchdigger's tool
Earth mover
Fictional detective
Fictional sleuth
Garden tool
Gardener's need
Gardener's tool
Hammett detective
Hammett hero
Hammett sleuth
Part of a deck
Sleuth Sam
One of a top suit
1941 Bogart role
Black-suit item
Bogart or Cortez role
Certain playing card
Ditch digger's tool
Do some gardening
Part of a black suit
Trench maker's tool
Miles Archer's partner of fiction
Three-year-old stag
Jack that's one-eyed and lacks a heart
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"