Answer: ACUTE
ACUTE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 143 times.
Referring Clues:
- Intense
 - Not chronic
 - Grave
 - Critical
 - Angle type
 - Pressing
 - Sharp as a tack
 - Sharp
 - Urgent
 - Very perceptive
 - Less than right?
 - Like some triangles
 - Like some accents
 - Keen
 - Like some French accents
 - Quite sharp
 - Life-threatening
 - Less than right
 - Obtuse's opposite
 - Well-tuned
 - Not quite right?
 - Severe
 - It's never right
 - Less than 90 degrees
 - Not chronic, medically
 - Very sharp
 - Sharply felt
 - Less than obtuse
 - Perceptive
 - Quick-sighted
 - Stabbing
 - Type of triangle
 - Keenly felt
 - Like some angles
 - Like severe pain
 - Like angles less than 90 degrees
 - Type of angle
 - Extreme, as pain
 - Much more than mere
 - Finely honed
 - Geometry term
 - Very serious
 - Sharp or severe
 - Less than 90 degrees, in geometry
 - Angle less than 90 degrees
 - Small angle
 - Extremely sharp or intense
 - Severe, as pain
 - Less than 90 degrees, anglewise
 - Like an angle that's less than 90 degrees
 - Angle that's smaller than 90 degrees
 - Not chronic, as illness
 - Like a 45° or 60° angle
 - Penetrating
 - Less than 90°, as an angle
 - Brainy
 - Very sensitive
 - Like most triangle angles
 - Biting
 - Not obtuse
 - Accent type
 - Piercing
 - Keen, as perception
 - Stabbing, as pain
 - Sharp, as pain
 - An angle perhaps
 - Sharp or intense
 - Like an eagle's eyesight
 - Angle between 0 and 90 degrees
 - Like intense pain
 - Hardly obtuse
 - Sharp-eyed
 - ___ accent, mark used symmetrically six times in this puzzle's solution
 - Quite sharp, as a pain
 - Sharper than 90 degrees
 - Like a sharp pain
 - Less than 90 (degrees)
 - Keenly perceptive
 - Crucial
 - Pain or angle preceder
 - Like the accent in "entrée"
 - Shrewd
 - Sharp, as an eagle's eyesight
 - Kind of angle
 - Sharp, as eyesight
 - Sharp angle
 - Like the accent on "passé"
 - Perspicacious
 - Cutting
 - Sharp, as vision
 - Under 90 degrees
 - Sharper than 90°
 - Like the accent in cliché
 - Like two angles in a right triangle
 - Keen, as eyesight
 - Like the accent in "é"
 - Like a 45-degree angle
 - Type of angle or pain
 - Severe and short, as an illness
 - A charming accent
 - Between 0 and 90 degrees, as an angle
 - Sharp-witted
 - Diacritical mark
 - Less than 90°
 - Some angles
 - Sharp in perception
 - Sharp as hearing
 - Razor-sharp
 - Like a hawk's vision
 - Penetrating, as insight
 - Intense, as pain
 - Below 90°
 - Accent mark
 - Very serious, as a water shortage
 - Like a 20-degree angle
 - Like sharp pain
 - Angle not quite right?
 - Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions
 - Extremely sharp
 - Severe but short, as an illness
 - Like a 30-degree angle
 - Like two right-triangle angles
 - Sharp, as intelligence
 - Like the accent in passé
 - Less than right, angle-wise
 - Highly perceptive
 - Like an angle less than 90°
 - Word before "accent" or "angle"
 - Word from the Latin for "sharpened"
 - Like a four-degree angle
 - Like the angles in an equilateral triangle
 - Not quite right
 - Like angles measuring less than 90 degrees
 - Less than 90º
 - Opposite of obtuse
 - Like at least two angles of every triangle
 - Less than 90º, as an angle
 - Not right or obtuse
 - Sharp, as some angles
 - Like less-than-90-degree angles
 - Like a 10-degree angle
 - 80 on a math test, maybe
 - Between zero and 90 degrees
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 28, 2025
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 - New York Times - January 26, 2025
 - USA Today - January 08, 2025
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 - USA Today - July 16, 2024
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 - USA Today - September 27, 2023
 - USA Today - September 15, 2023
 - LA Times - August 12, 2023
 - LA Times - July 07, 2023
 - New York Times - April 15, 2023
 - LA Times - March 31, 2023
 - USA Today - December 15, 2022
 - LA Times - November 14, 2022
 - LA Times - November 02, 2022
 
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