Crossword-Solution: RIFF 4 letters, 109 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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"West Side Story" gang leader 1 answer
Repeated musical phrase often used in jazz or rock 1 answer
AC/DC "___ Raff" 1 answer
Berber of Moroccan coast. 1 answer
Berber of the Moroccan coast. 1 answer
Bit of flashy guitar work 1 answer
Bit of guitar 1 answer
Bit of jazz 1 answer
Bluesman's lick 1 answer
Comedic spiel 1 answer
Comic comment 1 answer
Distinct variation 1 answer
Expound (on) 1 answer
Funky bit of noodling 1 answer
Guitar highlight 1 answer
Guitar lick 1 answer
Guitarist's short phrase 1 answer
Hill Berber of Morocco. 1 answer
Hilly coast region of Morocco. 1 answer
Improvised bit 1 answer
Improvised bit of jazz 1 answer
Jam-session basis 1 answer
Jam-session phrase 1 answer
Jazz bit 1 answer
Jazz guitar lick, say 1 answer
Jazz lick 1 answer
Jazz line 1 answer
Jazz motif 1 answer
Jazz player's phrase 1 answer
Jazz run 1 answer
Jazz solo 1 answer
Jazz theme 1 answer
Jazzman's lick 1 answer
Jazzman's repeated melodic phrase 1 answer
Jazzman's repeated phrase 1 answer
Jazzy phrase 1 answer
Jazzy refrain 1 answer
Jazzy run 1 answer
Leader of the Jets, in "West Side Story" 1 answer
Lick of jazz 1 answer
Melodic phrase 1 answer
Moroccan Berber. 1 answer
Moroccan native 1 answer
Music bit 1 answer
Native of Morocco. 1 answer
Native of the Moroccan coast. 1 answer
Notes again and again? 1 answer
Recurring snippet in a bass line, say 1 answer
Repeated bit in jazz 1 answer
Repeated bit of jazz 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RIFF (5)

This king sih how it was befalle, Fro Tharse and in prosperite He tok his leve of that Cite 1980 And goth him into Schipe ayein: The wynd was good, the See was plein, Hem nedeth noght a Riff to slake, Til thei Pentapolim have take.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
Henry Louden told me he's see Joe set around and study by the hour how to save three million dollars for the state in two years." "And the best he can do for himself," added Eskew, "is deliverin' the Daily Tocsin on a second-hand Star bicycle and gamblin' with niggers and riff-raff! None of the nice young folks invite him to their doin's any more." "That's because he's got so shabby he's quit goin' with em," said Buckalew.
The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1996
Here on one side dwelt 20,000 Chinese, and on the other thousands of Italians, Spaniards and Mexicans, while close at hand lived the riff-raff of the “Barbary Coast.” Seemingly the whole of these rushed for that one square of open ground, the two streams meeting in the centre of the square and heaping up on its edges.
The San Francisco Calamity Various 2006
Sometimes I touched the edge of the turf, sometimes the riff-raff of the arts, and occasionally the political refugee.
The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1999
Dear friend, you cannot imagine how lonely I am without my old companions! I could hang myself! [Whispers] Zuzu has frightened all the decent men away with her stingy ways, and now we have only this riff-raff, as you see: Tom, Dick, and Harry.
Ivanoff Anton Checkov 1999

Quotes with RIFF (3)

Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no …
Theodor W. Adorno Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff — what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it — just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.
Walter de La Mare The Return
Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from …
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 169 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).