Memorize these and you could recognize 52.9% of all Palindromes clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a bob | 6 | A hope, or a haircut |
| 2 | a level | 6 | It's the tool seen here |
| 3 | Elle | 5 | French pronoun or French magazine, both concerned with women |
| 4 | deed | 5 | A Boy Scout's should be a good one |
| 5 | = | 5 | = |
| 6 | peep | 5 | A chick's chirp |
| 7 | a nun | 5 | After recovering from paralysis around 1660, Mary Margaret Alacoque became a famous one of these |
| 8 | radar | 4 | It's usually classified into two general types: pulse and continuous wave |
| 9 | Otto | 4 | The 2nd Saxon Holy Roman emperor, he was the 1st with a palindromic name |
| 10 | Hannah | 4 | She & her siblings title a Woody Allen movie |
| 11 | eve | 4 | Christmas, New Year's or Adam's |
| 12 | gag | 4 | A joke |
| 13 | civic | 4 | In 2019 Kelley Blue Book named this Honda coupe Best Buy of the Year among compact cars |
| 14 | pep | 3 | Precedes "talk", "squad", & "pill" |
| 15 | eke | 3 | To get by with effort, it's how some people manage to make a living |
| 16 | toot | 3 | In a song by The Wiggles, this double talk palindrome comes before "chugga chugga" |
| 17 | a pup | 3 | A young seal |
| 18 | a pip | 3 | A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes |
| 19 | the poop | 3 | It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship |
| 20 | Xanax | 2 | This tranquilizer & anxiety suppressor is a brand name for Alprazolam |
| 21 | Tet | 2 | It's the Chinese lunar new year as celebrated in Southeast Asia |
| 22 | stats | 2 | For a ballplayer, they can include batting average & RBIs |
| 23 | pap | 2 | Soft or semi-liquid foods, as for infants |
| 24 | my gym | 2 | In 2 words, the place where I work out |
| 25 | mum | 2 | When keeping silent, this is the word |
| 26 | Lil | 2 | For Mae West, this "diamond" was a theatrical gem |
| 27 | ere | 2 | An old 3-letter word meaning "before" |
| 28 | boob | 2 | This word for a dolt was the first name of Rube Goldberg's comic strip hero McNutt |
| 29 | Ava | 2 | First name of the actress who married Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw & Frank Sinatra |
| 30 | Anna | 2 | Mrs. Leonowens, a governess to the Siamese court in the 1860s |
| 31 | a tenet | 2 | An important article of religious faith |
| 32 | 1991 | 2 | The only year in the 20th c. that is a palindrome |
| 33 | "Madam, I'm Adam" | 2 | Classic 3-word palindrome that could have been the world's first introduction |
| 34 | the sagas | 2 | These prose narratives of the Middle Ages dealt with the legendary events of Iceland & Norway |
| 35 | the rotor | 2 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks out from behind a helicopter.) It's the name for the hard-working part of a helicopter that provides upward lift & forwa... |
| 36 | Dennis sinned | 2 | 2-word palindrome meaning a comic-strip "menace" violated God's law |
| 37 | a canal, Panama | 2 | An engineering feat in Central America inspired "A man, a plan," these 3 words |
| 38 | a kayak | 2 | With its pointed bow, stern & hole in the center, it even looks like a palindrome |
| 39 | a dud | 2 | A failure, specifically a bomb that doesn't go off |