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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

4 letters

BOSH
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

BUNK
A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

GUFF
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

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

WOOD
A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; "metal woods are now standard"

TOSH
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

5 letters

WASTE
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"

TRIPE
Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food

DECAY
Fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"

GOBAD
Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

HOOEY
Senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"

HOKUM
A message that seems to convey no meaning

SPOIL
Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

6 letters

HUMBUG
Communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

FESTER
A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus

DRIVEL
Saliva spilling from the mouth

MOLDER
Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

BUNKUM
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

BUSHWA

7 letters

GARBAGE
A worthless message

DISEASE
An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

EYEWASH
Lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes

BLARNEY
Flattery designed to gain favor

RUBBISH
Nonsensical talk or writing

CRUMBLE
Fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"

HOGWASH
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

MOULDER
Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

ROTTING
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

PUTREFY
Become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies"

TWADDLE
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

CORRODE
Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

BALONEY
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

8 letters

FALDERAL

CLAPTRAP
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

SPOILAGE
The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"

LANGUISH
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

MALARKEY
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

BUNCOMBE
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

FLUMMERY
Meaningless ceremonies and flattery

NONSENSE
Ornamental objects of no great value

9 letters

GOTOWASTE

DECOMPOSE
Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"

POPPYCOCK
Senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"

MOONSHINE
Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash

GIBBERISH
Unintelligible talking

10 letters

APPLESAUCE
Nonsensical talk or writing

FLAPDOODLE

CORRUPTION
Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

DEGENERATE
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

BALDERDASH
Trivial nonsense

11 letters

DETERIORATE
Grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

12 letters

DISINTEGRATE
Cause to undergo fission or lose particles

PUTREFACTION
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

UTTERRUBBISH

GOBBLEDYGOOK
Incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists

BLATHERSKITE
Foolish gibberish

13 letters

DETERIORATION
A symptom of reduced quality or strength

DECOMPOSITION
The analysis of a vector field