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Outer letters indicators

Only the outside letters of a word are used.

Only the first and last letters of a word are used. Words like “empty” or “hollow” keep the shell and throw away the filling.

Common Outer letters indicators

• banks of
• borders of
• bounds of
• case of
• cleared out
• edges of
• emptied
• empty
• evacuated
• extremely
• extremes of
• extremities of
• frame of
• gutted
• hollow
• hollowed out
• limits of
• outsides of
• outskirts of
• shell of
• skin of
• vacant
• vacuous

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Anagram · Hidden word · Reversal · Container · Insertion · Homophone · Remove first letter · Remove last letter · Remove outer letters · Remove middle letter · Central letters · First letters · Last letters · Alternate letters · Spoonerism · Charade (building blocks) · Link word