Answer: BREAK
BREAK is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 50 times.
- Huddle ender
- Intermission
- Bit of luck
- Interruption
- Need fixing
- Go to pieces?
- Word that can follow the last word of 17- and 54-Across and 11- and 27-Down
- It can precede the words at either end of 20-, 39-, and 58-Across
- Pool opening
- Eightball starter
- With 56-Across, eat
- Come apart
- Tame
- Coffee time
- Take five
- Time for coffee
- Time-out for coffee
- Start a game of pool
- Require fixing
- Start a billiards game
- With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the circled squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues
- Go all to pieces
- Fracture
- Shatter
- Snap
- Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across
- Fold under pressure
- Recess
- With 57-Down, part of a morning routine
- Nine ball beginning
- Hiatus
- Heart ______
- Piece of luck
- Rest
- Short recess
- Coffee
- Shout from those huddled together
- Rest period
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- Work stoppage?
- Start of a billiards game
- Opening shot in billiards
- *Bit of luck
- Snap, crack or pop, maybe
- Respite
- The "five" in "take five," e.g.
- School vacation
- Disperse from a huddle
- Take ten
- Stop working