Austere
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

4 letters

SLIM
Take off weight

PUNY
(used especially of persons) of inferior size

POOR
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"

OPEN
Information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"

NEAT
Very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

MERE
Being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

LEAN
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

KEEN
A funeral lament sung with loud wailing

HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

GRIM
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

DOUR
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

BARE
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

BALD
Grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"

PURE
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black

THIN
Take off weight

5 letters

TIGHT
(of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game"

PLAIN
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

BLEAK
Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"

GRAVE
A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"

TOUGH
Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

SPARE
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

SOBER
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

SMALL
The slender part of the back

SKIMP
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

SHARP
Quick and forceful; "a sharp blow"

SCANT
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

ROUGH
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

RIGID
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

PROSY
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

FRANK
A member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century

BASIC
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

ACRID
Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"

HARSH
Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"

STARK
Completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"

STERN
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

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STRICT
Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

DEFINI

SEVERE
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

LENTEN
Of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"

CHASTE
Morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

7 letters

SPARTAN
A resident of Sparta

ASCETIC
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

9 letters

ASCETICAL
Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"

UNBENDING
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"

CHEERLESS
Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

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STRAITLACED
Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"