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Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

LAY
Impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"

4 letters

PURE
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black

OPEN
Information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"

5 letters

NAIVE
Not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"

FRANK
A member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century

PLAIN
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

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HONEST
Without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"

SIMPLE
A person lacking intelligence or common sense

CANDID
Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation"

CALLOW
Young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"

WILFUL
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

7 letters

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

GENUINE
Not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

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"

OBVIOUS
Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "obvious errors"

ARTLESS
(of persons) lacking art or knowledge

SINCERE
Open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

8 letters

IMMATURE
Not yet mature

INNOCENT
A person who lacks knowledge of evil

TRUTHFUL
Expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"

VIRGINAL
A legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries

UNTUFTED
Not adorned with tufts; "untufted ears"

UNTUFTED
Not adorned with tufts; "untufted ears"

9 letters

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"

UNSTUDIED
Lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"

CHILDLIKE
Befitting a young child; "childlike charm"

DECEITFUL
Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

FINETOOTH

FINETOOTH

INGENUOUS
Lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"

10 letters

UNAFFECTED
Undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"

UNAFFECTED
Undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"

ARTIFICIAL
Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

ABOVEBOARD
Without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs"

UNTRUTHFUL
Not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

UNTRUTHFUL
Not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

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DUPLICITOUS
Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray

TRANSPARENT
Free of deceit

UNDESIGNING

TREACHEROUS
Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

TREACHEROUS
Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

12 letters

SIMPLEMINDED

ARTSYCRAFTSY

13 letters

UNTRUSTWORTHY
Not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"

DISSIMULATIVE
Concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"

15 letters

UNSOPHISTICATED
Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

STRAIGHTFORWARD
Pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"