| 20 answers for: Requests politely or informally. (7) |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| INVITES | Requests politely or informally. (7) |
| FORBEAR | Politely or patiently restrain an impulse to do something (7) |
| INVITE | Request politely |
| WHISTLE | An onomatopoeic word for a shrill pipe or high-pitched cheep; a boatswain's call or other instrument used to produce such a shrike; a summons; or, informally, the throat (7) |
| ANATOMY | Branch of morphology synonymous with dissection; a treatise on this; or, informally, the human body (7) |
| PLASTIC | Nylon, PVC or, informally, a credit card |
| RIPE | Connected to "harvest", word meaning "ready for picking/reaping" or "fit for eating", as in fruit or grain; mature, mellow, pungent or rich, as in cheese or wine; perfected; or, informally, excellent |
| FEED | Fodder or forage for a farm animal; pasture or provender generally; an allowance of formula, milk etc for a baby; an act of nourishing said tot or of supplying a machine; or, informally, a plentiful m |
| SHAPE | Physical property of matter such as gas, liquid, plasma or solid; or, informally, a mess or shambles (5) |
| STATE | Physical property of matter such as gas, liquid, plasma or solid; or, informally, a mess or shambles (5) |
| PLUNGE | Word for a dive or leap into water; or, informally, a dip or a swim (6) |
| RELIC | From "remains, to leave", word for an object remaining as a memorial of a departed/deceased saint; a surviving trace or memory generally; a souvenir; or, informally, an old person or antiquated thing |
| SORT | Word for a manner or way originally, later a class, ilk, kind or species; or, informally, a person (4) |
| KWOKSDISEASE | MSG Symptom Complex, or informally, "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (5,7) |
| MIGHTY | Word used to mean important, powerful, strapping, strong or valiant; or, informally, very/to a high degree (6) |
| THING | Word for any inanimate object; a living creature; or, informally, a love affair, phobia or slight obsession (5) |
| PINT | A quartet of liquid gills; or, informally, a glass of beer or a bottle of milk (4) |
| BROODS | A word for the families of chicks that hatch from clutches or sittings of eggs at one birth; or, informally, large tribes of related children (6) |
| SPACER | Word for an astronaut; a bar-shaped key for inserting a blank; an item for separating beads, tiles or type; or, informally, a person who zones out (6) |
| ETERNITY | Time without beginning or close, aka infinity; or, informally, yonks (8) |
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