The Clue
Potter's base (4 letter answer)
The Answer
CLAY
Tags
Notes
The answer CLAY is common and appears about once every 325 puzzles.
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Modeler's medium
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Definition
CLAY as a noun:
1. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
2. (mud, clay) = water soaked soil; soft wet earth
3. (Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay) = United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
4. (Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser) = United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
5. (cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains) = the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"