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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

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

WRY
Humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"

OUT
(baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"

CAM
A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

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BEND
Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

SKEW
Turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"

WIDE
Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"

AGEE
United States novelist (1909-1955)

AWRY
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

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ODDLY
In a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"

WONKY
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

ATILT
Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"

WRONG
Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

TIPSY
Slightly intoxicated

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

ROILY
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"

CRAZY
Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

BOWED
Showing an excessively deferential manner

ASKEW
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

ASIDE
A message that departs from the main subject

AMISS
In an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen

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FLAWED
Having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an irregular pair of jeans"

FAULTY
Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"

ERRING
Capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone"

SKEWED
Having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"

ASTRAY
Away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"

ERRANT
Straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

ALLOFF

ASKANT
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"

ABROAD
In a place across an ocean

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

TURBID
(of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"

UNTRUE
Not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"

SPRUNG

WARPED
Used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"

ANGLED
Forming or set at an angle; "angled parking"

ASLANT
Having an oblique or slanted direction

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ASQUINT
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"

ASKANCE
With suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer"

YAWWAYS

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"

PECCANT
Liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott

NOTTRUE

HAYWIRE
Wire for tying up bales of hay

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

CORRUPT
Alter from the original

ATHWART
At right angles to the center line of a ship

ATFAULT
Deserving blame; "admitted to being at fault"

CROOKED
Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

SLANTED
Having an oblique or slanted direction

OBLIQUE
A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

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LOPSIDED
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

COCKEYED
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

SIDEWAYS
Toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"

SQUINTED

ALLWRONG

ABERRANT
One whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group

SHUFFLED

STRAYING
Unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep"

UNPROVED
Not proved; "unproved allegations"; "unproved assumptions"

TORTUOUS
Not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

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"

ONESIDED

NOTRIGHT

DELUSIVE
Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

DERANGED
Driven insane

ILLUSORY
Based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

FAULTFUL

CRUNCHED

CRUMPLED
Of metal e.g.; "bent nails"; "a car with a crumpled front end"; "dented fenders"

ASKEWGEE

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ATANANGLE

SQUINTING
Having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes"

SKEWJAWED

PERTURBED
Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)

OUTOFTUNE

OUTOFLINE

OUTOFGEAR
Not having gears engaged; "threw the machine's pinion out of gear"

OFFCENTER

MISPLACED
Put in the wrong place or position; "She was penalized for a spelling mistake or a misplaced accent"

IRREGULAR
Lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis"

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

DISTURBED
Having the place or position changed; "the disturbed books and papers on her desk"; "disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"

HETERODOX
Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

HERETICAL
Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

ERRONEOUS
Containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"

DEVIATIVE

DECEPTIVE
Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"

DEFECTIVE
Markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"

ALLABROAD

CONVULSED

CONTORTED
Twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"- Walter scott

AGEEJAWED

UNSETTLED
Not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"

UNFACTUAL

TURBULENT
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"

TOONESIDE

PERVERTED
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"

DISTORTED
So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"