Impulsive
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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

SNAP
(American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back; "the quarterback fumbled the snap"

WAVY
Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves

WILD
A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"

RASH
A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits"

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

BRASH
Offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

DIZZY
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

DYING
The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

EROSE
Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

FIERY
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"

FRAIL
A basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)

GIDDY
Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

HASTY
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

JERKY
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

QUICK
Accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial"

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

SWIFT
Common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks

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ABRUPT
Surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"

ADRIFT
Afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"

AFLOAT
Borne on the water; floating

ARDENT
Characterized by strong enthusiasm; "ardent revolutionaries"; "warm support"

CASUAL
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

CAUSAL
Involving or constituting a cause; causing; "a causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices"

CHOPPY
Marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose"

FADING
Weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound"

FICKLE
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

FITFUL
Intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"

FLYING
An instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

FORCED
Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"

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

INNATE
Being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"

JAGGED
Having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"

MORTAL
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

MOTIVE
The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

MOTLEY
A multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England

MOVING
Used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'"

RAGGED
Having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"

REFLEX
An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

ROVING
Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

RUSHED
Done under pressure; "a rush job"

SHIFTY
Characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

SPEEDY
Accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial"

SUDDEN
Happening without warning or in a short space of time; "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure"

UNEVEN
Not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"

UNRIPE
Not fully prepared

URGENT
Compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

WANTON
Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"

WAVERY

MADCAP
A reckless impetuous irresponsible person

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DRIVING
The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

BRITTLE
Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

ERRATIC
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

FLIGHTY
Guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls"

FORWARD
A position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team

FRAGILE
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

INTENSE
(of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"

MUTABLE
Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

NATURAL
(craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

NOTFIRM

OFFHAND
In a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"

PANTING
Breathing heavily (as after exertion)

PASSING
Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"

PULSIVE

TOOSOON
Before the usual time or the time expected; "she graduated early"; "the house was completed ahead of time"

UNEQUAL
Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"

UNFIXED
Lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen

UNSTAID

VAGRANT
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

VARIOUS
Considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed"

VARYING
Marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"

WAYWARD
Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

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ADVANCED
Situated ahead or going before; "an advance party"; "at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies"

CHANGING
Marked by continuous change or effective action

DEVIABLE

VARIABLE
A quantity that can assume any of a set of values

FANCIFUL
Having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

FARAHEAD

FLEETING
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

FLITTING

FREAKISH
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

FUGITIVE
Someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

HEADLONG
With the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"

INDUCIVE
Inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton

INHERENT
In the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"

OVERSOON

PELLMELL

PRESSING
The act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button"

PREVIOUS
Just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger"

RAMBLING
Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

RESTLESS
Worried and uneasy

SHIFTING
The act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"

SHOCKING
Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"

SPORADIC
Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

TEMPORAL
Of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"

TOOEARLY

UNJELLED

UNGELLED

UNSTABLE
Disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"