Lean
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

TIP
An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"

RUN
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"

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SLIM
Take off weight

LANK
Long and thin and often limp; "grown lank with fasting"; "lank mousy hair"

SWAY
Pitching dangerously to one side

CANT
Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees

TRIM
Cutting down to the desired size or shape

TILT
Pitching dangerously to one side

TEND
Manage or run; "tend a store"

THIN
Take off weight

RELY
Have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

LIST
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

BONY
Having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"

HEEL
The lower end of a ship's mast

BIAS
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

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SLOPE
An elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"

SPARE
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

STOOP
An inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward

ANGLE
A biased way of looking at or presenting something

SLANT
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

GAUNT
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

LANKY
Tall and thin

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SKINNY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

SKIMPY
Containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

SVELTE
Being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

LOWFAT

MEAGER
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

SCANTY
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

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SLENDER
Being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

BEGIVEN
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

INCLINE
An inclined surface connecting two levels

RECLINE
Lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"

SCRAGGY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

LEANING
The act of deviating from a vertical position

ANGULAR
Having angles or an angular shape

SCRAWNY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

8 letters

NONFATTY

10 letters

ECONOMICAL
Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

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ECTOMORPHIC
Having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs

INCLINATION
The act of inclining; bending forward; "an inclination of his head indicated his agreement"