The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COLLARS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2001.
Some are clerical crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| COLLARS | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Some are clerical
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- band
- bishop
- church
- file
- office
- order
- staff
- consistory
- monsignor
- reverence
- vestry
- succession
Crossword Answer definitions
COLLARS noun- Anything that encircles the neck.
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- Any encircling device or structure.
- (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- An arrest.
- A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- To seize, capture or detain.
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- (law enforcement) To arrest.
- To bind in conversation.
- To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- (BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
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