Answer: SOUL
SOUL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 165 times.
Referring Clues:
- Music category
 - Popular music category
 - Essence
 - Motown music category
 - Philosopher's study
 - Record store category
 - Marvin Gaye music
 - Topic of some 7-Down
 - Body's partner
 - Essential element
 - Blues alternative
 - Music from the Miracles, e.g.
 - Genre for Aretha Franklin
 - Heart's partner
 - James Brown's genre
 - "Chicken Soup for the __" (inspirational book series)
 - Record store section
 - Franklin's forte
 - Metaphysical subject
 - Aretha's genre
 - Body partner
 - Musical genre
 - Type of food or kiss
 - James Brown's music
 - Body's companion
 - Type of mate or music
 - Gospel music derivative
 - Genre for Gladys Knight
 - Aretha Franklin's musical genre
 - "Ooh! My ___" (1958 hit for Little Richard)
 - Philosopher's subject
 - Music genre
 - "The ___ of a New Machine" (Pulitzer-winning book by Tracy Kidder)
 - Knight music
 - Gaye's genre
 - Grammy subcategory of Gospel
 - Not a __ (no one)
 - Aretha's music
 - Partner of heart
 - Pop-music category
 - Human spirit
 - Motown music genre
 - Aretha Franklin's music
 - Aretha Franklin genre
 - Aretha Franklin's got it
 - Kind of food or music
 - "___ on Ice" (Eldridge Cleaver book)
 - Music store section
 - Kind of music or food
 - Aretha's specialty
 - James Brown's bag
 - The "Motown sound," e.g.
 - Aretha's realm
 - Aretha Franklin's genre
 - James Brown had it
 - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of ___
 - "O my prophetic ___!": Hamlet
 - David who played Hutch
 - Sam Cooke's style
 - Pickett's music
 - Not a ___ (no one)
 - Some Motown music
 - White's genre
 - It weighs 21 grams, according to the movie "21 Grams"
 - Spirit
 - Human being
 - Type of music or food
 - Cleaver's "___ on Ice"
 - Essential part
 - 'Heart and ___'
 - Satan's purchase
 - Inner being
 - Courage
 - Satan's buy
 - Beelzebub's purchase
 - Devil's purchase
 - Quintessence
 - Heart and ___
 - Inner self
 - R&B-influenced genre
 - Styx crosser
 - Motown genre
 - "Chicken Soup for the ___"
 - Franklin's genre
 - Start to mate?
 - Psyche
 - Start of mate?
 - Word before mate or food
 - A person's essence
 - Aretha's forte
 - Ame
 - Al Green genre
 - Stax Records genre
 - Person
 - Aretha Franklin music
 - Motown music
 - "Or what shall a man give in exchange for his ___?": Mark 8:37
 - Dangerous thing to sell
 - Aretha has it
 - Cuisine featuring collard greens and sweet potato pie
 - Beelzebub's buy
 - Focus of some searching?
 - One ferried by Charon
 - Music style of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke
 - Kia model that sounds like a Korean city name
 - Motown's genre
 - Spirit within
 - Barry White genre
 - James Brown's style
 - Kind of mate
 - Kind of food or mate
 - iTunes Store category
 - Some rhythm and blues
 - Immaterial essence
 - "The ___ should always stand ajar": Dickinson
 - Word with food or music
 - Subject of an evil negotiation
 - Body and spirit complement
 - ___-searching
 - "Whatever satisfies the ___ is truth": Whitman
 - Rhythm-and-blues music
 - - mate
 - The Motown sound
 - Innermost being
 - He was Hutch on TV
 - See 54-Across
 - The late, great Aretha's music
 - ___ food
 - Heart's companion
 - Aretha's queendom
 - Essence of a being
 - Embodiment
 - Nary a ___ (no one)
 - 49-Down partner
 - Heart's partner in a piano duet
 - Inner core
 - "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the ___": Pope
 - Nary a ___ (opposite of "everybody")
 - Curtis Mayfield genre
 - "___ Meets Body" (Death Cab for Cutie song)
 - Genre for Tank and the Bangas
 - Genre for Roberta Flack
 - Genre for Mumu Fresh
 - "Divine Comedy" focus
 - Word before "food" or "mate"
 - Pixar film about a jazz pianist
 - First Pixar film with a Black protagonist
 - "Break My ___" (Beyonce hit)
 - Genre for Luther Vandross
 - Body's counterpart
 - Music genre for Jill Scott
 - Inner self, in religion
 - Gyeongbokgung palaces city
 - Music genre akin to rhythm and blues
 - Genre for Otis Redding
 - Gladys Knight genre
 - One on Charon's ferry
 - Mate mate?
 - "'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___": Emily Dickinson
 - Animating spirit
 - 2020 Pixar film about a jazz musician
 - Word before food or mate
 - 2020 Pixar film
 - David of "Starsky & Hutch"
 - "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 21, 2025
 - LA Times - September 28, 2025
 - LA Times - September 27, 2025
 - New York Times - September 22, 2025
 - LA Times - July 20, 2025
 - USA Today - July 16, 2025
 - USA Today - June 04, 2025
 - LA Times - January 29, 2025
 - USA Today - January 01, 2025
 - New York Times - December 20, 2024
 - LA Times - December 13, 2024
 - LA Times - November 16, 2024
 - USA Today - October 22, 2024
 - LA Times - July 11, 2024
 - New York Times - March 04, 2024
 - New York Times - January 02, 2024
 - LA Times - September 25, 2023
 - USA Today - June 12, 2023
 - New York Times - May 21, 2023
 - LA Times - January 31, 2023
 
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