Oddball
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

FEY
Slightly insane

ODD
An indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited 30-odd guests"

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

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

RUM
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

NUT
Egyptian goddess of the sky

4 letters

KOOK
Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

GEEK
A person with an unusual or odd personality

CASE
A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"

DUCK
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

HOBO
A disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

MOTE
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

QUIZ
An examination consisting of a few short questions

TYPE
A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"

WEED
Street names for marijuana

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ALIEN
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

DOTTY
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

FLAKY
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

FUNNY
An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny"

KINKY
(of hair) in small tight curls

KOOKY
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

LONER
A person who avoids the company or assistance of others

NUTTY
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

QUEER
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"

RUMMY
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

SPECK
A very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

SPOOK
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

SPORT
Someone who engages in sports

STONE
United States architect (1902-1978)

TRAMP
A disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

WACKY
Ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"

WEIRD
Strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker

FLAKE
A crystal of snow

FREAK
Lose one's nerve; "When he saw the accident, he freaked out"

CRANK
A bad-tempered person

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WEIRDO
Someone deranged and possibly dangerous

MISFIT
Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

CRANKY
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

ABSURD
Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

FREAKY
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

HERMIT
One retired from society for religious reasons

ODDITY
Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

PARIAH
A person who is rejected (from society or home)

QUAINT
Strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

QUIRKY
Informal terms; strikingly unconventional

SCREWY
Not behaving normally

SLIVER
A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

ZEALOT
A fervent and even militant proponent of something

ZOMBIE
Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"

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ANOMALY
(astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)

BIZARRE
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

BLEMISH
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"

CURIOUS
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"

DEVIANT
Markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

ERRATIC
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

FANATIC
A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill

MAGGOTY
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

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

ODDBALL
A person with an unusual or odd personality

RECLUSE
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"

STRANGE
Not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"

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"

UNCOUTH
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

UNUSUAL
Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has"

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ABNORMAL
Not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"

CRACKPOT
A whimsically eccentric person

CRANKISH

FREAKISH
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

IMPURITY
The condition of being impure

INTRUDER
Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission

LONEWOLF
A person who avoids the company or assistance of others

MAVERICK
Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

NAYSAYER
Someone with an aggressively negative attitude

ORIGINAL
An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

OUTSIDER
A contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win

PECULIAR
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"

RARAAVIS
A rare or unique person

SINGULAR
The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton

SOLITARY
Lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler"

SPLINTER
A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"

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ANOMALOUS
Deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

CHARACTER
(genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes

CROTCHETY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

DEVIATIVE

DIFFERENT
Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"

DIVERGENT
Diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent opinion"

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

ODDFELLOW
Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

QUEERDUCK
Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

QUEERFISH

SCREWBALL
A pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

UNEARTHLY
Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley

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

WHIMSICAL
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

ECCENTRIC
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

10 letters

BLACKSHEEP
Sheep with a black coat

CROSSPATCH
A bad-tempered person

FREAKEDOUT

GNOMINIOUS

IDIOCRATIC