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The Clue

Top echelon (5 letter answer)

The Answer

ELITE

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Notes

The answer ELITE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.

Related Clues

Best
Choice
Cream
In crowd
The finest
Gentry
Illuminati
Select
Superior
1% group
"400" members
Best of the best
Best part
Blue bloods
Bon ton
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"