Philosophical Crossword Clue
4 letters · New York Times · Thursday, June 26, 2003 · 30-Across
Appeared in 3 New York Times Crosswords between February 1994 and June 2003.
Exact puzzle match · New York Times · June 26, 2003 · 30-Across · 4 letters
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difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
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