The Clue
Windfall (4 letter answer)
The Answer
PLUM
Tags
Notes
The answer PLUM is uncommon, appearing about once every 375 puzzles.
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Coveted
Prize
Prized
Choice assignment
Choice job
Choice thing
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Damson, e.g.
Deep purple
Desirable, as a job
Desirable thing
Extremely desirable
Fleshy fruit
Horner's capture
Horner's find
Horner's prize
Horner's reward
Kind of tomato
Political fruit
Prized thing
Prune, formerly
Prune's source
Pudding fruit
" . . . and pulled out a ___"
Purple color
Succulent fruit
Unwrinkled prune
Jack Horner's find
Jack Horner's surprise
Job everyone wants
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Prune, before drying
Smooth-skinned fruit
Something very good
High-paying easy job
Definition
PLUM as a noun:
1. (plum, plum tree) = any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
2. any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
3. a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"
PLUM as an adverb:
1. (plumb, plum) = exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
2. (clean, plumb, plum) = completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"