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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

FINE
Money extracted as a penalty

RICH
Marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

TALL
A garment size for a tall person

EDGY
Being in a tense state

BUSY
Crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"

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FANCY
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

SHOWY
Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series"

TENSE
A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

UPSET
An improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

LURID
Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"

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

JUMPY
Being in a tense state

LOFTY
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

GAUDY
(Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college

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TOUTED

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"

ROCOCO
Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

PUFFED
Gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

ORNATE
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

ONEDGE

GARISH
Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

FRILLY
Having decorative ruffles or frills

FLORID
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"

FLASHY
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

CHICHI
Someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way

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ANXIOUS
Eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won"

FRANTIC
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"

LABORED
Requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

WOUNDUP
Brought to a state of great tension; "all wound up for a fight"

UPRIGHT
A vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"

STILTED
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

PROFUSE
Produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"

POMPOUS
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

OROTUND
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

NERVOUS
Easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"

JITTERY
Characterized by jerky movements; "a jittery ride"

FLOWERY
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

FULSOME
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

FLAMING
Informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"

EXTREME
The furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"

EXCITED
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"

ELEGANT
Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

FIDGETY
Nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child"

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NEUROTIC
A person suffering from neurosis

MORESQUE
Relating to or characteristic of the Moors; "Moorish courtyard"

INATIZZY

FEVERISH
Marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"

ELEVATED
A railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level

FRENETIC
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"

AFFECTED
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

AGITATED
Troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents"

STRESSED
Bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"

ELOBRATE

TORTUOUS
Not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

PUFFEDUP

OVERSOLD

SONOROUS
Full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"

PRODIGAL
A recklessly extravagant consumer

OVERDONE
Cooked too long but still edible

OVERCOME
Get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"

PEDANTIC
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

INFLATED
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

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GRANDIOSE
Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

EXCESSIVE
Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

DELIRIOUS
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"

ELABORATE
Marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

BEDIZENED

ARABESQUE
An ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design

AMPLIFIED

OVERLARGE
Excessively large

OVERGREAT

OVERDRAWN

MAGNIFIED
Enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"

LUXURIOUS
Rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"

LUXURIANT
Produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"

INADITHER

HIGHFLOWN

FLAUNTING

STRUNGOUT

STRETCHED
(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching; "well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"

DISRAUGHT

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DISTRACTED
Having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety

CONVOLUTED
Rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal"

BALLYHOOED

OVERWORKED

OVERSTATED
Represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"

RHETORICAL
Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"

INORDINATE
Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

LEXIPHANIC

JOHNSONIAN

INATWITTER

HYPERBOLIC
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

HIGHFLYING
Extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions; "they did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company"

FLAMBOYANT
Showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

EXORBITANT
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"

EUPHUISTIC

THEATRICAL
A performance of a play

DISTRAUGHT
Deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"

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SUPERLATIVE
Highest in quality