Essence (4 letters)

{ Answer }

SOUL

{ Related Clues }

Anima
"Body and ___"
___ food
Heart and ___
Spirit
Body's partner
Brevity, to wit
Certain food
Cleaver's "___ on Ice"
Essential element
Faustian commodity
Food or music
Heart's companion
Heart's partner
Hutch, on TV
Inner person
Kind of food
Music category
Philosopher's study
Vital part
Dangerous thing to sell
Genre for Aretha Franklin
James Brown's genre
Kind of food or brother
Kind of food or music
Like certain food
Marvin Gaye music
Motown music category
Music from the Miracles, e.g.
Popular music category
Record store category
Record store section
Word with food or brother
Aretha Franklin's singing style
H. T. Webster's "The Timid ___"
He was Hutch on TV
Miedaner's "The ___ of Anna Klane": 1977
"O my prophetic ___!": Hamlet

{ Tags }

anna, aretha, brother, browns, category, essence, food, genre, hearts, hutch, james, kind, klane, miedaners, music, partner, record, soul, store, tv, 1977

{ Notes }

The answer SOUL is common and appears about once every 250 puzzles.

{ Definition }

SOUL as a noun:

1. (soul, psyche) = the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

2. (person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul) = a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

3. (soul, soulfulness) = deep feeling or emotion

4. the human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor"

5. a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s; "soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"