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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

DIM
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

DDY

MAT
Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

BAD
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"

DUN
Horse of a dull brownish grey color

ICY
Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film"

LAY
Impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"

PAD
Add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair"

SAD
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

SAD
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

SAP
Deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"

WAN
A computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network

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ARID
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

ASHY
Of a light grey

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

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

BATE
Soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"

BLUE
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

BLUR
A hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"

BLUR
A hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"

COLD
The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

COOL
Loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

DARK
An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

DEAD
People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

DOPE
Street names for marijuana

DOWN
(American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

DRAG
The act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

DRUG
Use recreational drugs

EASE
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

FADE
Gradually ceasing to be visible

FAIR
A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.

FOUL
An act that violates the rules of a sport

FUME
Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

GONE
Destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"

GRAY
Clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"

HACK
Kick on the shins

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"

HAZY
Filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"

KAYO
A blow that renders the opponent unconscious

KILL
The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

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"

LIMP
The uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

LOGY
Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)

LULL
Make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"

MULL
An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides

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

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

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

PALE
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

POKY
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

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

SOSO

SOFT
(of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"

STOP
A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"

STUN
Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"

TONE
(linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones"

TURN
Get by buying and selling; "the company turned a good profit after a year"

WEAK
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

MATT
The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

MUTE
A device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument

DUMB
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

DAMP
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

TAME
Very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes

GREY
Clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"

FLAT
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

PALL
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

NUMB
Make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

DRAB
A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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NOFUN

MATTE
The property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

BLAND
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

DENSE
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

DINGY
Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

BLUNT
Used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt instrument"

VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"

DREAR
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

DOWDY
British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

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

LEADY

MUTED
Being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"

HOHUM

ABATE
Make less active or intense

ACIER

ALLAY
Lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"

ALOOF
Remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

BATED
Diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"

ASHEN
Anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"

BEDIM
Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight

BEFOG
Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

BESOT
Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation

BLANK
A blank gap or missing part

BLASE
Nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning"

BLEAR
Make dim or indistinct; "The fog blurs my vision"

BLIND
A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

BLUFF
The act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards

BORED
Tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"

BRUTE
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement