Continue drinking tea, heading off before serious play starts — Crossword Clue
Stuck on the 9–letter crossword clue “Continue drinking tea, heading off before serious play starts”? This page covers its appearance in Guardian Cryptic on 22nd Mar 2017. You can reveal the answer at your pace — one letter at a time or the whole word in one go. We also provide helpful extras where available: an AI-generated hint, a dictionary definition, other clues that share the same answer, and a jumbled-letters view for quick anagramming.
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The answer to “Continue drinking tea, heading off before serious play starts” is PRESEASON (9 letters).
We last saw “Continue drinking tea, heading off before serious play starts” in Guardian Cryptic on 22nd Mar 2017.
The 9-letter answer for “Continue drinking tea, heading off before serious play starts” is PRESEASON.
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