Flat
Crossword Clue & Answers

3 December 2021
Last seen in: Evening Standard Quick Crossword

We found 60 answers for the crossword clue 'Flat', the most recent of which was seen in the Evening Standard Quick Crossword.

This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.

We have given Flat a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Flat as an answer itself some 319 times.

Flat is a single word clue made up of 4 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'Evening Standard Quick Crossword' on Wednesday, 08 December 2021 with the answer being LEVEL, but the most popular answer for this clue is EVEN.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 8 Dec 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 29 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 11 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 2 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 15 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 12 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 8 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 21 Sep 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 9 Sep 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 31 Aug 2021

Definitions and usage

Before we get to our crossword answers for 'Flat', take a look at the definitions and example uses below, sometimes these help you think of different words or phrases that are common to 'Flat' and give you a hint.

• A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
• A deflated pneumatic tire
• Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
• A shallow box in which seedlings are started
• A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
• A level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
• Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
• Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
• Commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"
• Freight car without permanent sides or roof
• Having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
• In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"
• Not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
• Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting"
• Lacking contrast or shading between tones
• Horizontally level; "a flat roof"
• Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
• (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
• Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
• With flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
• Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors"
• Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
• Not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
• Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

Crossword Answers

3 Letters

MAT
Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

OAK
A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns"

4 Letters

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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

EVEN
The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

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

ONED

TWOD

5 Letters

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

LEVEL
A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

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

ONE-D

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

PLANE
An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

PRONE
Lying face downward

STALE
Urinate, of cattle and horses

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

6 Letters

MATTED
Not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"

PLANAR
Involving two dimensions

SMOOTH
The act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"

7 Letters

FLATBED
An open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects

FLATCAR
Freight car without permanent sides or roof

INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

8 Letters

DEFLATED
Brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"

DIRECTLY
Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"

FLATTIRE
A deflated pneumatic tire

MONOTONE
An unchanging intonation

PUNCTURE
A small hole made by a sharp object

STRAIGHT
In keeping with the facts; "set the record straight"; "made sure the facts were straight in the report"

TENEMENT
A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

9 Letters

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

CATEGORIC
Not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

MONOTONIC
Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

PROSTRATE
Render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"

RESIDENCE
The act of dwelling in a place

SAVORLESS
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

UNCHANGED
Remaining in an original state; "persisting unaltered through time"

UNVARYING
Always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences; "a street of uniform tall white buildings"

10 Letters

ACCIDENTAL
A musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature

COMPRESSED
Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

FLAVORLESS
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

HORIZONTAL
Something that is oriented horizontally

LACKLUSTER
Lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"

MONOTONOUS
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

POINTBLANK

SAVOURLESS
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

UNEXCITING
Not stimulating

UNINSPIRED
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"

11 Letters

CATEGORICAL
Not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

FLAVOURLESS
Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

12 Letters

2DIMENSIONAL

13 Letters

BRITSDWELLING

LOWHEELEDSHOE

PUNCTUREDTIRE

UNCONDITIONAL
Not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

14 Letters

NOLONGERBUBBLY

TWODIMENSIONAL

15 Letters

NONEFFERVESCENT
Not effervescent

THENEXTKEYBELOW

16 Letters

TROUBLEONTHEROAD