cler

This is what's known as an "& lit", in which the whole clue is simultaneously both the definition and also the cryptic indication (because the letters cler-k are "penned" by the words "chronicler keeps").

Azed: a giant among crosswords Francis Wheen 2010

In one of the debates, I believe the last one, Senator Clinton was very cler that she was against torture.

Obama Campaign Charges Hillary Is Being Too Vague On Torture 2009

In one of the debates, I believe the last one, Senator Clinton was very cler that she was against torture.

Obama Campaign Charges Hillary Is Being Too Vague On Torture 2009

You could add a cler navigation bar to help visitors find exactly what they need.

Drive-by-Shooting Sunday: Prin’s Links 2008

Iz verre cler dat bare reject hiz emucashuns nd must nau lurn frum miztaks

No one took to mind - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Note 133: In Paul Meyer, "Trois nouveaux manuscrits des sermons français de Maurice de Sully," Romania 28 (1899): 256 — "Et quant li prestres faisoit le sacrement, il sembla au juié que li tenoit un enfant entre ces mains, et estoit ci [l] enfes couronnés d'or, et li saingnoient les mains et les piés, et estoit plus luisans et plus cler, se li sembloit, que li solax." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Such cler - ics, they said, had once been able to raise the dead.

Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

The lad could not help that his father had been an unfaithful weapons-master to an unfaithful ruler, that instead of teaching the King-priest the form of the broadsword prohibited to cler-ical orders, old Hannakus had tried to skip town, taking with him a hundred of the Kingpriest's trea'sured glain opals.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

"This must be the work of those worthless cler-ics Maldeev was forced to accept from Neraka."

The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

The mysterious, hooded cler-ics were feared by the soldiers, but young Caithford did his best to hide his apprehension.

The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993