Meager Crossword Clue

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Meager Crossword Answer

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SPARSE

(6 letters)

THIN

(4 letters)

POOR

(4 letters)

MERE

(4 letters)

FEW

(3 letters)

PALTRY

(6 letters)

SCANTY

(6 letters)

SLIM

(4 letters)

SLENDER

(7 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
2. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
(adjective)
1. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

Hint 2: Clue Definition

MEAGER (adjective)
1. deficient in amount or quality or extent

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

SPARSE
(6 letters)
THIN
(4 letters)
POOR
(4 letters)
MERE
(4 letters)
FEW
(3 letters)
PALTRY
(6 letters)
SCANTY
(6 letters)
SLIM
(4 letters)
SLENDER
(7 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More Universal Crossword (4/12/2025) Answers

Across

1. Coffee's ___ Valdez

5. Plotter in "Othello" or "Aladdin"

9. Scoop source

14. Pursuer's order to a cabbie, in movies

15. Stringed instrument that's also a first name

16. Concession line?

17. Frodo's gardener

19. Like the word "moist," to some

20. "Enchanted" actress Amy

21. Storage unit

22. ___ chi

23. Peanut butter cup creator

24. Plum relatives

25. 200 milligrams, to a jeweler

27. Bleachers

28. Fingernail treatments, for short

30. Super soaker?

32. Very hot day

35. Schwarzenegger, to his friends

36. Rattled

37. Palindromic file extension

38. Yearbook superlative

39. Two-way, like some doors

40. Testing phase

41. Resuscitation pro

42. Skilled

43. Fast food's ___ McCheese

44. Doormat

47. One who's high up at work?

48. Grow faint

49. Carolina songbird

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Down

1. Envious, in slang

2. Sch. whose newspaper is the Daily Bruin

3. Not feeling crushes, briefly

4. Results of a brainstorm, hopefully

5. "Just got back from shopping!"

6. Pile up

7. Boarding area at an airport

8. Thunder, on scoreboards

9. "No promises ..."

10. Googly-eyed TV character with a voracious appetite

11. Cry after a long delay

12. Attractive

13. Like "Us"

15. Don Corleone

18. Something to clean up

20. Aptly named American Eagle sub-brand

21. White, on a French wine menu

23. Word after "driving" or "gas"

24. Ned or Tony

26. 'Oh, be quiet'

27. "Skedaddle!"

29. Words to live by, for members of young troops

30. On the ___ page

31. Essay directive

32. "Olde" boutique

33. Get via blackmail, say

34. You don't want to bring it up!

36. Reason to say "Bless you!"

39. Ran in place

40. Washing station

42. Aang's sky bison in "Avatar: The Last Airbender"

43. End of a chess game

45. Buffoon

46. Make a mistake

All Answers