Crabbed
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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SEC
An independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

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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"

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"

MAZY
Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"

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

GLUM
Moody and melancholic

CRAB
A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"

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"

EDGE
A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box"

RUDE
Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

SOUR
Having a sharp biting taste

TART
Harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"

UGLY
Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

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ACERB
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"

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

TESTY
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

SULKY
A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse

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

SHAKY
Not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"

NATTY
Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

RUSTY
Ancient; "hoary jokes"

RATTY
Dirty and infested with rats

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

GREEN
Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

GRUFF
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

HUFFY
Roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

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

CRAMP
A clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued

ANILE
Of or like a feeble old woman

TANGY
Tasting sour like a lemon

SURLY
Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

CROSS
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

FUSSY
Exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"

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GRUMPY
Annoyed and irritable

ORNERY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

CRABBY
Annoyed and irritable

SIDLED

TANGLY

SULLEN
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

SUBTLE
Able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind"

SOURED
Having turned bad

SENILE
Mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

KNOTTY
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

INFIRM
Lacking firmness of will or character or purpose; "infirm of purpose; give me the daggers" - Shakespeare

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

MOROSE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

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

FEEBLE
Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

CRANKY
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

FEISTY
Quick to take offense

DAEDAL
(Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus

CUSSED
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

CRUSTY
Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

BITCHY
Marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"

UNRIPE
Not fully prepared

TOUCHY
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

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ACERBIC
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"

WASPISH
Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

TWISTED
Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"

WIZENED
Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

UNSWEET
Distasteful; "he found life unsweet"

TOTTERY
Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man"

SNARLED
Tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"

TANGLED
In a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"

TARTISH

PICKLED
(used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid

PUNGENT
Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

SPLEENY

SOURISH
Tasting sour like a lemon

RICKETY
Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"

PEEVISH
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

MIXEDUP

OBSCURE
Reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

PALSIED
Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands"

KNOTTED
Tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"

JUMBLED
In utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"

HOFFISH

HUFFISH
Sullen or moody

DEVIOUS
Deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"

DODDERY
Mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

GARBLED
Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

CRABBED
Annoyed and irritable

COMPLEX
A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"

BEARISH
Expecting prices to fall

BRUSQUE
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

GROUCHY
Annoyed and irritable

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SPITEFUL
Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"

TIMEWORN
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

WITHERED
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"

PERVERSE
Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

RAMIFIED

VINEGARY
Having a sour disposition; ill-tempered

SNAPPISH
Apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

PETULANT
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

OBSCURED

MUCKEDUP

MESSEDUP

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GERONTIC