The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BONES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Essential framework crossword clue answers
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BONES | 100 % | 5 |
Why may BONES be the right solution?
The answer "BONES" is the right solution because bones are an essential framework that provides support and structure to the human body.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Essential framework
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Crossword Answer definitions
BONES noun- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- The framework of anything.
- An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- A dollar.
- The wishbone formation.
- An erect penis; a boner.
- (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- To apprehend, steal.
- To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
- The act of two fists meeting together in the manner equivalent to a high-five.
- The framework or foundation of something.
- A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
- The common European bittern.
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