Short Cut to clear spotlight search pane?

I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut for spotlight that is equivalent to clicking the little circle with the x through it to clear the search window.
If there are separate ones for other toolbar searches with that same circle, I'd be grateful to know what those are as well.

Hi Michael,
Hit the Escape key on the upper left of your keyboard (that's where it is on my keyboard) Hitting the escape key will clear the text field in the spotlight search box.
If you hit the Command . it will stop the search and close the spotlight window.
If you open the Spotlight window the search will start again.
This works for Spotlight.
For a search in a Finder window, you would use Command . or just keep hitting the delete key until the text is deleted.
Lori

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