The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PAIRS which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2010.
An 86-Across may break them up crossword clue answers
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PAIRS | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: An 86-Across may break them up
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Crossword Answer definitions
PAIRS noun- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
- A boat for two sweep rowers.
- A pair of breasts
- The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- To group into one or more sets of two.
- To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- To impair, to make worse.
- To become worse, to deteriorate.
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