The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PADDING which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2017.
Superfluous part of an essay crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PADDING | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Superfluous part of an essay
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Crossword Answer definitions
PADDING verb- To stuff.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To travel on foot.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- To practise highway robbery.
- Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
- Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
- Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
- Anything of little value used to fill up space.
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