Paradox
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

CRUX
A small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus

CRUX
A small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus

KNOT
A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

NODE
(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

5 letters

POSER
A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"

NODUS

IRONY
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

6 letters

TEASER
An attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

PUZZLE
A game that tests your ingenuity

ENIGMA
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

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HEARSAY
Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

PROBLEM
A source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?"

NONPLUS
Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

MYSTERY
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

DILEMMA
State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

DILEMMA
State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

8 letters

QUANDARY
A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"

OXYMORON
Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

NOCHANCE

ANTINOMY
A contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

9 letters

ASYMMETRY
(mathematics) a lack of symmetry

AMBIGUITY
Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

ABSURDITY
A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"

ABSURDITY
A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"

10 letters

PHENOMENON
Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

PERPLEXITY
Trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

PERPLEXITY
Trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

IMPOSSIBLE
Not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation"

HETERODOXY
Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

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UNORTHODOXY
Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

KNOTTYPOINT

KNOTTYPOINT

INCONGRUITY
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

INCOHERENCE
Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

GORDIANKNOT
An intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia

AMBIVALENCE
Mixed feelings or emotions

12 letters

WHATCANNOTBE

UNCONFORMITY

PONSASINORUM
A problem that severely tests the ability of an inexperienced person

INCONSONANCE

HOPELESSNESS
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

EQUIVOCATION
Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

EQUIVOCATION
Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

EQUIVOCALITY

EQUIVOCALITY

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VEXEDQUESTION

THEIMPOSSIBLE

NONCONFORMITY
Failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior

INCONSISTENCY
The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

IMPOSSIBILITY
Incapability of existing or occurring

HETEROGENEITY
The quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind

DISPROPORTION
Lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something

CONTRADICTION
The speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"

14 letters

UNTHINKABILITY

IMPOSSIBLENESS
Incapability of existing or occurring

15 letters

UNIMAGINABILITY

INCOMPATIBILITY
The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

INCOMPATIBILITY
The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

16 letters

WHATCANNOTHAPPEN

UNCONFORMABILITY

INCONCEIVABILITY
The state of being impossible to conceive

GRAMMATICALERROR

17 letters

SELFCONTRADICTION

SELFCONTRADICTION

NONCONFORMABILITY

IRRECONCILABILITY

18 letters

INCOMMENSURABILITY

20 letters

DISPROPORTIONATENESS