Enter a clue or pattern or both:
The Clue
Top echelon (5 letter answer)
The Answer
ELITE
Tags
Notes
The answer ELITE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.
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Choice
Cream
In crowd
The finest
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Superior
1% group
"400" members
Best of the best
Best part
Blue bloods
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Choice group
The chosen few
Cream of the crop
The Four Hundred
Handpicked group
Influential set
A-list group
Olympic-level
Socially superior
Type of type
Typewriter type
Upper crust
Hardly the hoi polloi
Like the service academies
Not hoi polloi
Opposite of hoi polloi
Size of typewriter type
Billionaires and their families, e.g.
Crème de la crème
Like Green Beret units
Definition
ELITE as a noun:
1. (elite, elite group) = a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
ELITE as an adjective:
1. (elect, elite) = selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"