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ADUST
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The answer ADUST is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2100 puzzles.
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Definition
ADUST as an adjective:
1. (adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked) = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
2. burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott