Clued In #318 | A hot clue to get you warmed up for the day
Mihir Balantrapu | 02 June 2021
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CLUE: Missing the first celebration of summer? (7)
Clue types: deletion
We need a 7-letter word that means ‘of summer’.
Another word for ‘celebration’ is FESTIVAL. ‘Missing the first’ is an indication to delete the first letter and get ESTIVAL, which means ‘of summer’, etymologically originating from
aestus, a latin word for ‘heat’!