A cipher needs one (3 letters)

{ Answer }

KEY

{ Related Clues }

Chief
Clavis
Critical
Essential
Important
Pitch
Significant
Answer sheet
Car starter
Codebreaker's discovery
Cotter pin
Critically important
Of crucial importance
Door opener
Fla.'s ___ Largo
G, e.g.
"Hazel" cartoonist
Ignition starter
Largo or West
Lock opener
Low island
A major, maybe
Offshore reef
Speck in the ocean
Typewriter lever
Very important
West or Largo
West or stone
One of 88 on an eighty-eight
E or G, e.g.
Roller skate accessory
Swipe card alternative
Word with board or stone
Cartoonist who created "Hazel"
It has all the answers
Item with a magnetic strip, nowadays
"The Star-Spangled Banner" composer
This could be a skeleton
Word before West or Largo

{ Tags }

answers, but, cartoonist, critical, crucial, door, e, eg, eight, eighty, essential, g, important, island, key, largo, lock, not, opener, pitch, west

{ Notes }

The answer KEY is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.