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# This list is a reformatted and slightly updated version of one
# compiled by Ross Beresford and posted to rec.puzzles.crosswords in
# 1992. That post can be found here:
#
# http://groups.google.com/group/rec.puzzles.crosswords/msg/09ddc2e84abbe18a
#
# I'm maintaining this list in a git repository that can be found on
# github:
#
# https://github.com/mhl/cryptic-crossword-indicators-and-abbreviations/
#
# Please let me know if you think something should be added to this list.
#
# Those words marked with * are generally only found in advanced cryptic
# crosswords and those marked with + are regarded as unsound by some.
#
a: Austria
a: I
a: academician
a: accepted
a: ace
a: acre
a: active
a: adult
a: advanced
a: afternoon
a: aleph
a: alpha
a: alto
a: amateur
a: ampere
a: an
a: ane
a: angstrom
a: answer
a: ante
a: are
a: articles
a: associate
a: atomic
a: ay
a: aye
a: before
a: blood group
a: bomb
a: effect
a: examination
a: fifty
a: film
a: first character
a: first class
a: first letter
a: five hundred
a: five thousand
a: good
a: high class
a: it
a: key +
a: level
a: midday
a: note +
a: one *
a: paper
a: per
a: road
a: strings
a: string
a: un
a: unit
a: violin string
a: vitamin
a: year
aa: motoring organisation
ab: able seaman
ab: hand
ab: rating
ab: sailor
ab: salt
ab: seaman
ab: tar
abbe: priest (French)
abe: Lincoln
abel: first victim
abel: murder victim
abel: second child
abel: third man
able: can
able: expert
abo: native
abs: brakes
ac: account
ac: accountant
ac: aircraftsman
ac: alternating current
ac: before Christ
ac: before food
ac: bill
ac: current
aca: accountant
acas: peacemakers
acc: account
acc: bill
ace: card
ace: champion
ace: expert
ace: one
ace: pilot
ace: service
ace: winner
act: decree
act: performance
actor: tree
ad: Christian era
ad: advertisement
ad: after date
ad: before the day
ad: contemporary
ad: in the modern age
ad: in the year of our Lord
ad: modern times
ad: notice
ad: now
ad: nowadays
ad: our time
ad: our era
ad: period
ad: present day
ad: promotion
ad: puff
ad: era
ad: this era
ad: today
adam: first character
adam: first person
adam: number one
add: sum
add: tot
aden: port
admin: management
admin: running
ado: business
ado: difficulty
ado: fuss
ado: row
ado: trouble
ae: aged
ae: poet
aet: aged
ag: silver
aga: Muslim leader
age: long time
age: time
age: mature
age: period
agent: spy
agm: annual meeting
agm: meeting
agm: yearly meeting
ai: ace
ai: capital
ai: first class
ai: good
ai: high class
ai: main road
ai: sloth
aia: actuary
ail: trouble
ain: own (Scottish)
air: appearance
air: display
air: song
air: tune
aire: river
ait: island
al: Alabama
al: Alan
al: Albania
al: Albert
al: Capone
al: aluminium
al: gangster
al: one pound
ala: Alabama
ala: after the style of
ala: in the style of
ala: to the (French)
ala: wings
alas: Alaska
alb: one pound
alb: vestment
ale: beer
aleph: Hebrew letter
ali: the greatest
all: completely
all: everybody
all: everything
alp: mountain
alp: peak
alph: river
alpha: Greek letter
alpha: beginning
alpha: first character
alpha: first letter
am: America
am: American
am: I am
am: admitting
am: boasting
am: half day
am: hymns
am: in the morning
am: morning
am: self-confessed
amen: final word
amen: last word
amer: American
ammo: missiles
amos: bookmaker
amp: one member
an: I
an: articles - English
an: before
an: if
an: if (old word)
an: one *
an: un
ana: tales
ane: I
ane: one
ankh: life symbol
anne: princess
anon: now
ans: answer
ans: brief reply
ans: collection
ans: short answer
ant: if it
ant: if it (old word)
ant: six-footer
ant: social worker
ant: soldier
ant: worker
ape: copy
ape: primate
aq: water
ar: arab
ar: army regulation
ar: arrive
ar: arrival
ar: year of reign
ara: academician
ara: artist
ara: painter
arab: horse
arc: curve
argo: old ship
aria: song
arm: gun
arm: limb
arm: member
arr: arrive
arr: arrival
art: contrivance
art: craft
art: cunning
art: painting
art: skill
as: Anglo-Saxon
as: ayes
as: ays
as: like
as: one's
as: specifically
as: when
ash: remains
ash: tree
asia: continent
aside: one fifteen
asis: existing state
asp: snake
ass: donkey
ass: fool
asti: wine
ate: goddess
ate: mischief
athena: goddess
ation: at one on
atoll: bikini
au: gold
au: to the (French)
auc: old way of dating (Ab Urbe Condita)
aus: Australia
aux: to the (French)
av: bible
av: lived so long
ave: average
ave: greeting
ave: hail
ave: road
ave: way
aver: average
avon: county
awn: beard
ay: I
ay: agreement
ay: always
ay: ever
ay: yes
aye: I
aye: I say
aye: agreement
aye: always
aye: ever
aye: yes
az: Azed
az: scope, plenty of
b: Bach
b: barrel
b: barrels
b: bass
b: Beethoven
b: Belgium
b: Brahms
b: Britain
b: British
b: a follower
b: bachelor
b: baron
b: bedbug
b: bee
b: bel
b: beta
b: beth
b: bishop
b: black
b: blood group
b: bloody
b: book *
b: born
b: boron
b: bowled
b: boy
b: breadth
b: inferior
b: key +
b: magnetic flux
b: note +
b: paper
b: second
b: second class
b: second letter
b: soft
b: three hundred
b: three thousand
b: vitamin
ba: Bachelor of Arts
ba: airline
ba: bachelor
ba: barium
ba: degree
ba: graduate
ba: scholar
bac: airline
bacon: philosopher
ban: curse
ban: outlaw
ban: prohibition
bar: Inn
bar: lawyers
bar: prevent
bar: save
barb: horse
bat: fly-by-night
bb: bees
bb: books
bb: very black
bc: ancient times
bc: before Christ
bc: period
bd: beady
bd: bound
bd: cleric
bd: theologian
be: exist
be: live
bea: airline
bear: speculator
bed: in bed
bee: buzzer
bee: group of workers
bee: six-footer
bee: social worker
bee: worker
bef: Gort's men
bef: Old Contemptibles
bess: queen
beta: Greek letter
beth: Hebrew letter
bi: double
bi: two
bi: vitamin
bird: prison
bis: two
bis: twice
bis: again
bit: chewed
bit: piece
biz: business
bk: book
bl: British company
bl: lawman
bl: lawyer
blue: Conservative
bm: British Museum
bm: doctor
bn: baron
bo: American man
bo: man
boa: snake
board: directors
bob: old shilling
bot: fly larva
bp: bishop
br: Britain
br: British
br: British Rail
br: bank rate
br: branch
br: bridge
br: brig
br: brother
br: brown *
br: lines
br: landline
br: railway
br: railways
br: trains
br: transport
bra: female support
bra: female supporter
bra: support
bra: undergarment
brass: money
brat: child
bren: gun
brer: rabbit
bridal: old wedding
bro: brother
bs: bees
bst: summer time
bst: summer
bull: American policeman
bull: gold
bus: transport
by: times
c: Celsius
c: centigrade
c: Charles
c: contralto
c: Conservative
c: Cuba
c: about
c: approximately
c: approx
c: around
c: cape
c: caput
c: carbon
c: caught
c: cedi
c: cent
c: centime
c: centi-
c: century
c: chapter
c: circa
c: cloudy
c: club
c: cold
c: college
c: complex number
c: copyright
c: coulomb
c: electrical capacity
c: hundred
c: hundred thousand
c: key +
c: lot
c: many
c: note +
c: roughly
c: sea
c: see
c: speed of light
c: spring
c: tap
c: vitamin
ca: about
ca: approx
ca: accountant
ca: approximately
ca: calcium
ca: roughly
ca: cases
cab: transport
cade: conspirator
cain: first murderer
cain: killer
cain: murderer
cal: California
cam: river
can: able to +
can: is able to +
can: prison
can: vessel
cantuar: archbishop
cap: chapter
cap: international
car: carat
car: transport
carnation: motor race
cart: transport
cat: jazz fan
cato: censor
cato: plotters' street
cattle: neat
cave: warning
cb: Seabee (American)
cc: county council
cc: seas
cc: small measure
cc: small quantity
cc: two hundred
cd: diplomat
cd: record
cd: seedy
ce: Church of England
ce: church
ce: engineers
ce: this (French)
cent: money
cet: this (French)
ch: China
ch: Companion of Honour
ch: Switzerland
ch: award
ch: central heating
ch: champion
ch: chapter
ch: chief
ch: child
ch: church
ch: companion
ch: honour
ch: order
cha: tea
chai: gypsy woman
chair: president
chal: gypsy
char: daily
che: guerrilla
che: revolutionary
cher: dear (French)
chere: dear (French)
chi: Greek letter
ci: Channel Islands
ci: hundred and one
cia: secret service
cia: spies
cid: captain
cid: chief
cid: detectives
cid: police
cid: spanish hero
cinc: commander
cit: citation
cl: chlorine
cl: class
cl: clause
cl: gas
cl: hundred and fifty
co: Colombia
co: business
co: care of
co: cobalt
co: commander
co: commanding officer
co: company
co: county
co: firm
co: gas
co: carbon monoxide
co: house
co: objector
co: officer
cob: horse
cod: fish
cod: swimmer
col: neck
col: pass
cole: old king
colon: stop
com: commander
comb: hairdresser
composer: scorer
con: Conservative
con: against
con: party
con: politician
con: study
con: swindle
con: trick
con: with
cooler: prison
core: decentralise
corn: naval commander
cos: lettuce
cot: bed
cot: house
cow: lower
cow: daisy
cow: neat
cr: credit
cr: crown
cr: king
cs: Civil Service
cs: Czechoslovakia
cs: hundreds
cs: seas
ct: Connecticut
ct: carat
ct: caught
ct: cent
ct: centime
ct: court
ct: small weight
ct: weight
cu: copper
cu: see you
cue: queue
cur: dog
cure: priest (French)
cutie: pretty girl
cv: autobiography
cy: see why
d: penny
d: density
d: old penny
d: Dee
d: Democrat
d: Deutsch
d: Germany
d: Schubert's works
d: copper
d: damn
d: date
d: daughter
d: day
d: dead
d: died
d: deci
d: degree
d: delete
d: delta
d: deserted
d: deuterium
d: diameter
d: diamond
d: differential operator
d: director
d: drag
d: duke
d: electrical flux
d: five hundred
d: four
d: four thousand
d: hundreds
d: key +
d: lot
d: many +
d: mark
d: note +
d: notice
d: number
d: strings
d: string
d: violin string
d: vitamin
da: American lawyer
da: District Attorney
da: agreement (Russian)
da: dagger *
da: lawman
da: lawyer
da: yes (Russian)
da: outdated hairdo ("duck's arse")
dab: expert
dad: father
dad: old man
dail: Irish house
dam: barrier
dam: mother
dam: restrain
dame: lady
dan: tribe
das: articles - German
das: the (German)
dc: Washington
dc: current
dd: cleric
dd: days
dd: divine
dd: doctor
dd: doctor of divinity
dd: theologian
de: from (French)
de: of (French)
dean: good man
dec: Christmas period
dec: last month
decanter: Tantalus' prisoner
dee: river
deed: indeed
deed: legal document
deep: in the main
deep: main
deep: sea
deg: degree
del: of the (Italian)
dela: from the (French)
dela: of the (French)
demi: half
den: retreat
den: study
den: office
der: articles - German
der: the (German)
derby: horse race
des: of the (French)
det: detective
dg: director general
dg: chief executive
di: double
di: five hundred and one
di: princess
di: two (double)
die: articles - German
die: the (German)
dime: 12.5 cents
dior: designer
dis: Hell
dis: Pluto
dis: underworld
disc: circle
disc: record
disc: ring
dish: pretty girl
dit: named
dit: reported
dit: said (French)
dit: say (French)
diy: amateur's department
dk: Denmark
dm: mark
do: the same
do: same
do: act
do: cheat
do: cook
do: ditto
do: note
do: party
do: work
dodo: double act
doh: note
don: fellow
don: nobleman
don: put on
don: university teacher
down: county
dr: debtor
dr: dead reckoning
dr: doctor
dr: dram
dr: drawer
dr: healer
drake: bowler
dt: alcoholic state
dt: psychotic state
du: from the (French)
du: of the (French)
dutch: wife
e: Asian
e: Edward
e: Elizabeth
e: England
e: English
e: Spain
e: boat
e: bridge players
e: direction
e: earth
e: east
e: eastern
e: eight
e: eight thousand
e: energy +
e: epsilon
e: eta
e: five
e: five thousand
e: key +
e: layer
e: logarithm base
e: low grade
e: note +
e: orient
e: oriental
e: point
e: quarter
e: string
e: violin strings
e: violin string
e: two hundred and fifty
e: two hundred and fifty thousand
e: universal set
e: vacant
e: vitamin
ea: East Africa
ea: each
ea: river *
ea: running water
ea: water
ear: listener
ear: organ
ear: spike *
ear: word processor
earp: lawman
eat: Tanzania
ebor: archbishop
ec: London district
ec: city
ec: Ecuador
eccles: Cakesville
ed: Edward
ed: editor
ed: journalist
eden: garden
eden: old Prime Minister
eden: paradise
edison: inventor
edit: censor
ee: ease
eel: fish
eel: swimmer
eer: always
eer: ever
eer: invariably
eg: for example
eg: for instance
egg: bomb
egg: cocktail
egg: encourage
eight: rowing boat
ein: number one (German)
el: American railway
el: articles - Spanish
el: measure
el: printer's measure
el: small measure
el: the (Spanish)
eld: old age
eli: priest
eli: prophet
elia: writer
ell: four feet
ell: length
ell: measure
ely: city
ely: see
em: measure
em: printer's measure
em: small measure
em: small square
em: them
eme: uncle
en: measure
en: printer's measure
en: small measure
eng: England
eng: English
eng: modern journalism
ent: otorhinolaryngology
entry: record
eon: age
eon: time
ep: epistle
ep: record
er: Cockney girl
er: QE
er: difficulty
er: ever
er: hesitation
er: king
er: monarch
er: queen
er: royal badge
era: generation
erasmus: old scholar
ere: always
ere: before
ergo: so
eric: gradually
erie: lake
err: blunder
err: sin
err: wander
erse: Gaelic
es: French art
es: ease
esp: sixth sense
esp: telepathy
est: is (French)
et: Egypt
et: alien
et: and (French)
et: exotic
et: extraterrestrial
et: film
eta: Greek letter
eta: estimated time of arrival
eta: illegal army
eta: terrorists
ether: number
eton: college
eton: educational establishment
eton: school
etty: artist
eur: continent
eve: first lady
eve: first mate
eve: lady
eve: woman
ew: bridge partners
ew: partnership
ex: former
ex: from
ex: late
ex: one time
exe: river
eye: I
eye: spectator
eye: looker
eye: I say
eye: seer
eyot: island
ezra: pound
f: Fahrenheit
f: France
f: Friday
f: clef
f: farad
f: farthing
f: fathom
f: fellow
f: female
f: feminine
f: filly
f: fine
f: fluorine
f: folio
f: following
f: foot
f: force
f: forte
f: forty
f: frequency
f: gas
f: hole
f: key +
f: loud
f: noisy
f: note +
f: strong
f: vitamin
f: woman
fa: football
fa: note
fah: note
fal: river
fare: China area (Far East)
fast: firm
fe: iron
fed: American detective
ff: folios
ff: followings
ff: fortissimo
ff: very loud
ff: very strong
fia: actuary