| 20 answers for: Can, could, may, might, must, shall, e.g. |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| MODALS | Can, could, may, might, must, shall, e.g. |
| MODALVERB | Type of part of speech using words such as can/could, may/might, etc (5,4) |
| VOWS | "I do" and "I shall," e.g. |
| MODAL | Type of verb, such as can, could or may |
| TOXIN | Beef in a can could be poison (5) |
| CONTAMINATE | Shifting meat into can could cause impurity |
| SPRINGIER | More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say? (9) |
| GOTOTHECOUNTRY | Take a walking holiday? Then Mrs May might do this! (2,2,3,7) |
| BEAUTIFY | Old-fashioned boyfriend, having brief tiff at the end of May, might embellish things |
| ALL | "Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill; The man shall have his mare again, And ... shall be well |
| APRILSHOWERS | They shall yield May flowers: 2 wds. |
| AUXILIARYVERB | Should, might or shall, to a grammarian |
| SEQUAR | I may, or shall, follow (dep.) |
| ISLES | In Tennyson's Ulysses, the aged hero embarks on a last voyage hoping, 'It may be we shall touch the |
| DUNSINANE | "... shall never be vanquished until / Great Birnam wood to high ____ hill / Shall come against him" (Macbeth) |
| ASYE | "__ sow, so shall ..." |
| ANONYMOUSGIFT | For the present it shall be nameless (9,4) |
| RABBIT | "I shall be late!" speaker of fiction |
| APOEM | "I shall never see _ ___ lovely as..." Joyce Kilmer |
| REVERE | "...you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul ___..." |
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