Answer: CLOSE
CLOSE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 108 times.
Referring Clues:
- Just off
- In the ball park
- Lacking fresh air
- Stingy
- Kind of call
- Intimate
- Stuffy
- Like some calls
- "__ Encounters of the Third Kind"
- Almost equal
- Buddy-buddy
- Tight-knit
- Like best friends
- In the vicinity
- Seal the deal
- Almost touching
- __ to the vest (how cards may be played)
- Within walking distance
- Glenn of "101 Dalmatians"
- Pitch the ninth inning, maybe
- Warm, in a way
- Warm, so to speak
- Shut
- Like some quarters
- Warm, in a guessing game
- Near
- Nearly equal
- Wind up
- Shut down
- Finalize
- Neck and neck
- "Almost!"
- Shutter up
- In the neighborhood
- Say one's final words
- Not leave ajar
- Conclude, as a deal
- In the ballpark
- Like games that are anybody's game
- Anybody's game
- Nip and tuck
- Glenn of "Fatal Attraction"
- Solve a case
- Almost but not quite
- Ending
- Almost but not quite
- Nearby
- Conclusion
- At hand
- '101 Dalmatians' actress
- See 21-Down
- In proximity
- Inseparable
- "Just missed!"
- About to happen
- Like a good guess
- Getting warm
- In proximity
- Site of many hangings
- Almost there
- Not too far off
- Go out of business
- End the business day
- Wrap up
- Just around the corner
- "You're almost there"
- By a whisker
- Finalize a deal
- Eric of "Dark Skies"
- With 57-Across, negotiate ... and what needs to be done to make sense of this puzzle's circles
- Separated by a hairbreadth
- Right around the corner
- Thereabouts
- Not worth a cigar?
- Confined, as quarters
- "Not quite"
- Very nearby
- Not quite there
- Like some encounters
- Put a cork in
- "Jagged Edge" actress
- "Fatal Attraction" Oscar winner
- Evenly matched
- Actress in "The Big Chill"
- Around the corner
- Like a one-run game
- Finalize, as a deal
- "___, but no cigar"
- With 47-Across, get the buyer to buy
- Very near
- Not far off
- With 85-Across, uncomfortably accurate
- Cuddling
- Not quite worthy of a cigar?
- Not a blowout
- Around the corner, say
- Getting warm, so to speak
- Thick as thieves
- Like games decided by buzzer beaters
- Lock up
- End
- Within a point or two, as scores
- Seal up
- Not far
- Complete the deal
- "You're getting warmer!"
- Word before "call" or "talker"
- Seal, say
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 19, 2025
- USA Today - September 30, 2025
- USA Today - September 24, 2025
- New York Times - August 05, 2025
- USA Today - July 14, 2025
- USA Today - September 16, 2024
- LA Times - August 11, 2024
- USA Today - January 11, 2024
- USA Today - December 20, 2023
- New York Times - December 12, 2023
- LA Times - April 22, 2023
- New York Times - February 26, 2023
- USA Today - December 21, 2022
- LA Times - December 03, 2022
- USA Today - September 15, 2022
- USA Today - June 01, 2022
- New York Times - March 04, 2021
- New York Times - February 20, 2021
- New York Times - January 17, 2021
- USA Today - December 01, 2020
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