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Answer for the clue "Key piece of extra information ", 6 letters:
kicker

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Word definitions for kicker in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, agent noun from kick (v.).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kicker \Kick"er\, n. One who, or that which, kicks. A fact, condition, or circumstance, sometimes concealed or not obvious, which reduces or eliminates the benefit of an apparently advantageous situation; a joker[5]; as, under the Soviet system, bread was ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kicker , also called a side card , is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank. For example, the hand Q-Q-10-5-2 is ranked as a pair of ...

Usage examples of kicker.

Finally, the wife, stung by words whose bitterness was embittered by their truth, cried aloud, taking the bystanders to witness, that the husband for whose sake, she said, she had endured patiently the falsehoods and accusations of yonder hussy, was nothing better than a beater, a striker, a kicker, a trampler, and a cuffer of his wife.

About sixtyeight yards upfield the kicker raised his right arm, gave a little hop, and began to move toward the ball.

He was wearing kicker boots, punker black leathers, and a lot of chains and badges and things.

Si was counting out the money when he said he bet she was a kicker father said she is kind as a kitten and dont bite or kick dont she Harry and i said she cant kick becaus she always holds up one leg in the stall, and old Si said whats that and i told him how she coodent kick becaus she held up one leg, and then Gimmy and Shep and Charlie Fifield and old Mister Page all laffed and hollered and stamped round and slaped their legs and said that is a good one, and old Si stoped counting his money and swore aufully and father looked auful mad for a minit and then he said she is wirth every cent of 50 dolars and asked Si what he wood give and Si said 15 dolars and they talked and talked and after a while he give father 25 dolars.

The kicker, however, was always in successfully tightening the sanctions to eliminate the smuggling, and here the smart sanctions got the answer wrong.

Smug satisfaction that the kicker of underdogs had himself bitten the dust.

A and B teams and was always against some foreign junior squad, to give the whole Fundraising affair a patriotic kicker.

Gately'd always found Demerol with a slight Talwin kicker such a smooth and orderly buzz.

Captain Prince Lysander, code name Kicker Six, who would be leading the scout element.

She followed him out into the stern well and watched while he started the kicker engine and set up the fishing rods.

It concluded with a kicker, an interview with Puerto Rican Senator Pauline Grandville: 'If the moon can simply ignore the feelings and desires of its terrestrial forebears, then that could call into question the entire matrix of Earth-Moon relations.

He could see a crowd of the local kickers clustered around a pool table.

The kickers were producing the hard stuff, the old stuff, liberty-headed dollars and Roosevelt dimes from the stamp-and-coin stores, while more cautious bettors slapped down antique paper dollars laminated in clear plastic.

The kickers, the table, Jackman’s itself, might not exist at all for him.

The kickers were just going ape, waving hats and stomping feet, acting like God’s own fools.