The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SLEEPER which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1984.
Surprising success crossword clue answers
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLEEPER | 100 % | 7 |
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Crossword Answer definitions
SLEEPER noun- Someone who sleeps.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- A railway sleeping car.
- A sleeper hold.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
- A sedative.
- To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
- A railroad tie.
- A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
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