Severe Crossword Clue

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Severe Crossword Answer

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ACUTE

(5 letters)

HARSH

(5 letters)

BAD

(3 letters)

STERN

(5 letters)

DRASTIC

(7 letters)

DRACONIC

(8 letters)

STRICT

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
2. causing dejection

Hint 2: Clue Definition

SEVERE (adjective)
1. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
2. severely simple

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ACUTE
(5 letters)
HARSH
(5 letters)
BAD
(3 letters)
STERN
(5 letters)
DRASTIC
(7 letters)
DRACONIC
(8 letters)
STRICT
(6 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (6/15/2026) Answers

Across

1. It isn’t that

5. Smart in a dull way

9. Turkish chiefs

13. Place to see Alysa Liu or Hilary Knight

14. Not in effect

15. Fine-grained sedimentary rock

16. ___ fruit, a.k.a. Jamaican tangelo

17. Forever ___ day

18. Durable cotton thread

19. Fleet Week arrivals

21. City that’s home to the Mountain America Stadium

23. Skye cap

24. Connection

25. Opposite of mismo

27. Barn youngsters

29. Base of some grain bowls

31. “Looks that way to me”

32. High voices, to Verdi

34. Yielding

35. Speed reader?

38. Starbuck's boss

39. Brother of Ophelia

40. Endures

42. Faux —

45. __ pad

46. Center fielder nicknamed the Say Hey Kid

47. Free (of)

49. “Doctor Who” figures, briefly

50. Precincts

52. Publicist's concern

54. Kind of facility in the Sandra Bullock film “28 Days”

58. Bound

59. Crawls

60. “Firefly” actress Torres

61. Face

62. One of only four men to win Wimbledon from 2003 to 2022, alongside Roger, Rafael, and Novak

63. Extended account

64. They go with ends

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Down

1. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Hernan Diaz

2. Mensa membership requirement

3. Replacing, with “of”

4. CD annoyance

5. Gardner portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in “The Aviator”

6. Anti body?

7. 1995 National League Rookie of the Year Nomo

8. Ball on a cheese board

9. Ingredient in some maki

10. “S.N.L.” alum Ana whose impressions included Martha Stewart and Celine Dion

11. Thoroughly lost

12. Doesn’t cause concern

15. Huge amounts

20. What the Russian suffix -ovich means

22. Profession that’s gone to the dogs?

26. Penthouse’s place

28. Suburb east of San Diego State University

30. “The Warmth of Other Suns” author Wilkerson

31. On the up and up?

33. Instance of excellent service

35. Number of figures in “The Last Supper”

36. Enthralled

37. Eight-time winner of the Ballon d’Or

38. Neighbor of Montana

41. Some foundations

43. Dealt in stocks

44. Made a sharp turn

46. Tia ___ (liqueur that might be used in an espresso Martini)

48. Particulars, casually

51. Shakshuka needs

53. Notice

55. Schneider who wrote the memoir “In the Form of a Question”

57. Goat's greeting

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