Straighten Crossword Clue

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Straighten Crossword Answer

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MALIGN

(6 letters)

NEATEN

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
2. align oneself with a group or a way of thinking

Hint 2: Clue Definition

STRAIGHTEN (verb)
1. put (things or places) in order
2. straighten up or out; make straight

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

MALIGN
(6 letters)
NEATEN
(6 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More Universal Crossword (11/2/2025) Answers

Across

1. Kind of rug

5. Scattered, as seeds

9. Whopper's smaller relative

12. Wood splitter, perhaps

15. Tomato plant, e.g.

16. "Check your phone later"

17. Certain toothed whale

18. Lackey

19. The Fever, for one

21. Satellite ___

23. It may have runners

24. The Devil

27. Stick out

29. Snares

32. Ever so slightly

33. "Mm-mmm!"

35. Actress Vardalos

36. "Stay safe, please!"

39. Cheer at a flamenco performance

40. Bad blood

41. Tennis court dividers

44. Mathematician Lovelace whose first name is a palindrome

45. Animal that may become a rescue pet

46. Stretched tight

48. City featured in local ads?

50. Mensch

53. Barrels toward

57. Bad times

58. "Everything's fine!"

60. Fine

61. Dramatic sagas

62. Like some home repairs, briefly

63. Classic slow cooker meal

64. Start to drip, as ice cream

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Down

1. Pair worn on a lift

2. "Go no farther!"

3. The dinosaur in Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur"

4. Athlete's drink

5. Course covering contraception, for short

6. Birth mo. for many Libras

7. Response to a ludicrous suggestion

8. Midday

9. Performer who lights up the stage?

10. Ancient Quechua speaker

11. Smile radiantly

13. Pop duo ___ and Sara

14. Places to grab a pint

15. Ballot marker

20. "OTOH …"

22. ___ Oluo, author of "Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World"

24. Polynesian nation whose largest island is Savai'i

25. In the slightest

26. "Over to you!"

28. Mint in the movie "Juno"

30. Michelangelo sculpture in St. Peter’s Basilica

31. Full of attitude

33. Slip into

34. "Don't be ___!" ("Step right up!")

37. Part of the family?

38. As a twosome

43. Like Jupiter

45. Unproductive period

47. Sunbathes

49. "Time flies like an ___; fruit flies like a banana"

50. Lump of dirt

51. Trickster in Norse mythology

52. Speaks lovingly

54. Achy

55. Persnickety

56. Assay or essay, perhaps

59. "Great" primate

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