| 20 answers for: Word for the act of tessellating; or, azulejos, sl... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| TILING | Word for the act of tessellating; or, azulejos, slates etc collectively (6) |
| TILES | Slabs of baked clay for paving, roofing or for tessellating walls; decorative azulejos; slang for hats; or, pieces for mah-jong or Scrabble (5) |
| ESCHER | Tessellating artist |
| TILER | He lays slates etc., 50 in a row (5) |
| ROOFING | Tiles, slates, etc |
| QUARRIES | From "to square", stone pits from which marble, minerals, slate etc is mined; hence, figurative sources from which information can be extracted (8) |
| CHOICE | Word for the act/power of electing, hand-picking, opting or selecting; the thing decided on; or, the best or preferable part, aka the plum (6) |
| MAKING | Word for the act of forming bread, cabinets, cakes, candles, Christmas cards, decisions or anything else (6) |
| THRUST | Sea lavender's cousin growing on wind-smitten cliffs, rocks, ocean-sprayed turf and shores; or, from "grasp, prosperity, success", a word for the act or art of frugality, parsimony or prudence (6) |
| PASTRY | A flour-and-shortening-based mixture; bakemeats, piecrusts, tarts, turnovers etc, collectively made of this; a small individual cake or fancy; or, according to Shakespeare, a place for the preparation |
| REVIVAL | Word for the act of giving someone or something, such as an old play, the kiss of life; quickening from depression or languor; or, religious awakening (7) |
| CREATION | Word for the act of making; the artefact made; an elaborate or unusual garment, hat etc; or, the cosmos (8) |
| SHOOTING | Word for the act of blasting a bore; the sport of hunting game; an estate on which to blast, fire or hunt; or, a sudden twinge of sharp pain (8) |
| PURSUIT | Word for the act of following or chasing a fast car, game, a hobby, knowledge, love, a track bike, trivia etc; or, that which is striven after (7) |
| ALLISION | An unusual word for the act of dashing or striking against, whose near-homophonic etymological or semantic relative means apparition, deception, maya or mirage (8) |
| FENESTRA | Latin for "window", hence found in a word for the act of throwing a person out of said light or opening (8) |
| APPROVAL | Word for the act of sanctioning or agreeing; commendation; or, favourable judgement (8) |
| EXPOSURE | Word for the act of laying open or bare; or, a shelterless state (8) |
| TEASET | Cups, saucers, milk jug, sugar bowl etc collectively (3,3) |
| TESSELLATION | Word, from the Greek for "four", thus the Latin for "cube, die, square", for the act or art of perfectly interlocking, mosaicking or tiling shapes, leaving neither spaces nor gaps (12) |
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