ADJECTIVE: "marked by strain" Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for ADJECTIVE: "marked by strain" crossword clue, last seen in the Missing Letter Crossword December 4, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

ADJECTIVE: "marked by strain" Crossword Answer

→13.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
2. become stretched or tense or taut
(noun)
1. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
(adjective)
1. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
2. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat’)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ADJECTIVE (adjective)
1. of or relating to or functioning as an adjective
2. relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law
ADJECTIVE (noun)
1. a word that expresses an attribute of something
2. the word class that qualifies nouns
MARKED (adjective)
1. strongly marked; easily noticeable
2. having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
SENTE

More Missing Letter Crossword (12/4/2025) Answers

Across

1. ADJECTIVE: "tending to [evaluate] others harshly or critically"

6. Info page

9. INTERJECTION: "used as a greeting or farewell"

10. Hosp. area

11. VERB: "to grant or obtain an extension on the loan of"

12. Thompson in "All the Right Moves" and "Back to the Future"

15. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Daniel arap 1924–2020 president of Kenya (1978–2002)"

17. Fun floater

20. ADJECTIVE: "[covered with] a colored usually liquid material for writing and printing"

22. NOUN: "the disguising especially of military equipment or installations with paint, nets, or foliage"

23. NOUN: "a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect"

25. NOUN: "the forward part of a ship"

26. NOUN: "[a native of a] country in Asia in southeastern Arabia bordering on the Arabian Sea"

28. NOUN: "a sound of a blow or explosion"

30. ADJECTIVE: "of, relating to, affecting, or having the form of...[an] area set off as distinct from surrounding or adjoining parts"

33. Landry or Wong

34. "Can ___..." (start of many restaurant orders)

35. ADJECTIVE: "consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid"

36. ADJECTIVE: "well-known by reputation"

All Answers

Down

1. Container with a lid

2. NOUN SUFFIX: "little one"

3. IDIOM: "used to say that one agrees with what has just been said"

4. NOUN: "a semifluid clarified butter made especially in India"

5. ADJECTIVE: "causing or tending to cause sleep"

6. NOUN: "a piece of furniture that is used for storing documents so that they can be found easily"

7. Most valuable diamond, often

8. PREPOSITION: "in the capacity or character of"

14. ___ fly (baseball play)

15. 1004, one way

16. 12 months old

18. NOUN: "[a group] that provides comprehensive [medical] care to voluntarily enrolled individuals and families in a particular geographic area"

19. ___ truck

21. ___ Kippur

24. "Chernobyl" creator Craig

27. "Mission cancelled"

28. Havanese's hand

29. "Nicely done!"

31. Snarfed (down)

32. NOUN: "boy; youth"

All Answers