Precipitous
Crossword Clue and Answers
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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in Evening Standard Quick Crossword.
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Publications
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Tuesday, 5 Oct 2021
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 11 Jul 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 1 Jul 2021
- The Mirror Quick - Monday, 24 May 2021
- The Mirror Classic - Sunday, 16 May 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 16 Apr 2021
- The Mirror Classic - Sunday, 11 Apr 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 8 Apr 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 19 Mar 2021
- The Mirror Classic - Tuesday, 9 Mar 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021
Crossword Answers
5 letters
STEEP
Of a slope; set at a high angle; "note the steep incline"; "a steep roof sheds snow"
SHARP
Quick and forceful; "a sharp blow"
SHEER
Cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
HASTY
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
STEEP
SHEER
6 letters
ABRUPT
Surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"
8 letters
HEADLONG
With the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"
9 letters
OVERHASTY
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
11 letters
PRECIPITANT
An agent that causes a precipitate to form
PRECIPITATE
Hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"