Acrostic Indicator Words
Acrostic indicators tell you to take the first (or last) letters of words.
Also called letter-selection: you read the initial or final letters of consecutive words to spell part of the answer. Indicators point to beginnings, ends, or leaders.
“Heads of police arrest nervous intruder, causing alarm (5)”
Answer: PANIC
Definition: "alarm". "Heads of" tells you to take the leading letter of each following word. The words "police arrest nervous intruder causing" give P, A, N, I, C. Reading those initials in order spells PANIC.
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71 words
- at first
- at last
- at the end
- at the end of
- at the outset
- at the start of
- backs of
- begin
- beginnings of
- borders of
- bottom of
- bottoms of
- capitals
- characters
- conclude
- conclusions of
- edges of
- end
- ends of
- extremes
- extremes of
- final
- finally
- finish
- first
- first characters of
- first letters of
- firstly
- forefront of
- foremost
- from the start
- front
- fronts of
- head
- heads of
- in the end
- initial
- initially
- initials
- introduce
- introduction to
- last
- last letters of
- lastly
- lead
- leaders of
- letters
- open
- openings of
- original
- origins of
- pioneer
- primarily
- primer
- rear of
- rears of
- regularly
- seed of
- source of
- start
- starters
- starts of
- tail
- tails of
- terminal
- terminals
- tips of
- to begin with
- to start with
- tops of
- ultimately
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