Sour
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Publications

  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Tuesday, 26 Oct 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Monday, 2 Aug 2021
  • The Mirror Quick - Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 11 Jun 2021
  • The Mirror Quick - Thursday, 4 Feb 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 28 Jan 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020
  • The Mirror Classic - Friday, 20 Nov 2020
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Tuesday, 29 Sep 2020
  • USA Today - Thursday, 17 Sep 2020
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 17 Sep 2020

Crossword Answers

3 letters

OFF
Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

4 letters

GLUM
Moody and melancholic

MASH
Mixture of ground animal feeds

ACID
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

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

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

WORK
Perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"

DARK
An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

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"

5 letters

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"

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

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"

ACRID
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"

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

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

6 letters

SULLEN
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

TURNED
In an unpalatable state; "sour milk"

ACETIC
Relating to or containing acetic acid

LEMONY
Tasting sour like a lemon

CRABBY
Annoyed and irritable

GRUMPY
Annoyed and irritable

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"

ACIDIC
Being sour to the taste

CURDLE
Turn into curds; "curdled milk"

BITTER
The taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

RANCID
Smelling of fermentation or staleness

OFFKEY

7 letters

ACETIFY
Turn acidic; "the solution acetified"

ACIDIFY
Turn acidic; "the solution acetified"

FERMENT
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"

ACIDITY
PH values below 7

ACETOUS
Tasting or smelling like vinegar

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"

8 letters

VINEGARY
Having a sour disposition; ill-tempered

SOURNESS
A sullen moody resentful disposition

TARTNESS
The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

9 letters

GLOWERING
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"

ACIDULATE
Make sour or more sour

SATURNINE
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"

RESENTFUL
Full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will; "resentful at the way he was treated"; "a sullen resentful attitude"