Compulsion Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Compulsion crossword clue, last seen in the Seattle Times New Crossword June 12, 2026 puzzle. Sometimes we all need some help finding the answer!

Compulsion Crossword Answer

→1.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

MANIA

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. an instinctive motive
2. a strong restless desire
(verb)
1. force or impel in an indicated direction
2. push for something

Hint 2: Clue Definition

COMPULSION (noun)
1. an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
2. using force to cause something to occur

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

MANIA
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (8/16/2024) Answers

Across

5. Like some durable furniture

10. Rapa ___ (Easter Island, to natives)

13. Look to be

14. Pacific Ocean phenomenon

15. Periods of prosperity

16. Regarding

17. Where the Central Pacific Railroad crossed the Sierra Nevada range

19. Fireman on “Leave It to Beaver”

20. Mount Olympus matriarch

21. Skate’s cousin

22. Realm of the sprites

24. Freight train component

26. Connectors of stories

27. Urban park sound

28. Genesis creator

29. Merak or Mizar

30. Bright circles

32. Didn't I tell you?

33. Initial owners of many a small store

36. Geese formation

39. Angry talk

40. Avoids honesty

43. Octopus octad

45. Youngest of Alcott’s March sisters

46. Pea or peanut

48. Laptop accessories?

50. Runner in a wheel

51. Sean who played Samwise

52. Popular office plant

53. Tree with samaras

54. Arraignment option

57. Intro to drawing, maybe

58. Mined-over matter

59. Ready for the afterlife, say

60. Start the bidding

61. Neighbor of Marge and Homer

62. Scratchy voices

63. Give over

All Answers

Down

1. Customs

2. Sports page listings

3. Puts on pounds

4. Offshoot of punk

5. Prayer opening, perhaps

6. Magnani of movies

7. Relatives

8. Direction opposite WSW

9. Title priestess in a Bellini opera

10. Meanings often missed

11. Eclipse

12. She voices Spider-Woman in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

14. Idyllic areas

18. Foxborough gridders

20. Ground-breaking tool

23. Neeson of “Taken”

24. Goes out of business

25. Fingerprint feature

27. It might come from Mars

30. Impairs

31. Deeply sincere

34. Agonized sound

35. Truffle finders

36. Bygone VW delivery vehicle

37. Sign of fallibility

38. Poured out, perhaps

41. Muse of music

42. Got the lead out?

44. Brand of power tools

46. Merlin Olsen, memorably

47. Wearer of a white winter coat

49. Lay to rest

50. Dressy shoes

52. Commotion

55. Singer Sumac

56. Nature network

57. Rep. from the Bronx

All Answers