Uncomfortable Crossword Clue

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Uncomfortable Crossword Answer

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AWKWARD

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

UNCOMFORTABLE (adjective)
1. conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
2. providing or experiencing physical discomfort

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

AWKWARD
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More New Yorker Crossword (1/13/2026) Answers

Across

1. Guerrero gal pal

6. Lands end?

11. Seasoning sometimes used as a salt substitute, briefly

14. Corridors

15. Recording stored digitally

17. Loser to Dwight in the 1952 and 1956 Presidential elections

18. Performer in a circus’s mane event?

19. Dressing-down

21. Look up to

22. Place for boarders?

23. Valley toured by oenophiles

26. Foldable furniture

27. Was indebted to

28. Mythical creature akin to a griffin or centaur

31. One of TV’s Mowry twins

32. Pseudonym used by directors when disavowing their own films

36. Biblical beast of burden

37. Like gifts that arrive post-birthday

38. Stir in

39. Classic R. & B. group that sang “Only You (And You Alone)”

41. Word before Mac or cheese

42. Vacationers’ vehicles

43. Black Bag star Blanchett

44. Turned up

47. Home of the Viking Ship Museum

48. Place adjacent to a decimal point

49. Eggy entrée

52. Struggling to get by

54. Beetle that’s a spud farmer’s foe

57. Hidden feature of the FedEx logo

59. Neal Stephenson novel whose main character is named Hiro Protagonist

60. Thoroughly search

61. Swelled head

62. Pedal-operated percussion instrument

63. Cantankerous

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Down

1. "Solved it!"

2. Prepared for a coin toss?

4. Silently showed anger, in a way

5. That'll be the day!

6. Suspend

7. Non's opposite

8. Turmoil

9. Right-triangle ratio

10. Little tykes

11. Old-timey copier, familiarly

12. Bad weather for driving

13. Concern for a person who avoids handshakes

16. Wielder of wealth and influence, derisively

20. Spiritually impure

22. Insinuated

24. Targets for swingers at some parties

25. Dutch lager with a red-and-white label

29. Poet and philosopher dubbed the Sage of Concord

30. Clears (of)

32. Good at one’s job

33. Peppers long thought to top the Scoville scale

34. Expunged from a draft

35. Sphere’s lack

40. Prospective attorney’s area

43. Lean (on)

44. Small group of trees

45. Surrounded by

46. Awareness-movement hashtag that went viral in 2017

50. Set in stone, perhaps

51. First name of the actress with the memoir “Spelling It Like It Is”

53. Boss Tweed-mocking cartoonist Thomas

55. Disdainful response

56. Host nation of the 2028 Olympics

58. Darkly humorous

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