Answer: DENSE
DENSE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 153 times.
Referring Clues:
- Thick
 - None too bright
 - None too brainy
 - Not too swift
 - Thickheaded
 - Impenetrable
 - Crowded
 - Packed tight
 - Blockish
 - Not the brightest bulb on the tree
 - Doltish
 - Unintelligent
 - Blockheaded
 - Short on sharpness
 - Slow on the uptake
 - Like osmium, more than any other known element
 - Packed
 - Hardly suited for Mensa
 - Concentrated
 - Not the sharpest pencil in the box
 - Obtuse
 - Not very sharp
 - A few bricks shy of a load
 - Not exactly a genius
 - Like a rain forest
 - Tightly packed
 - Like pea soup fog
 - Not the sharpest tack
 - Crammed
 - Thick as a brick
 - Thickly populated
 - Slow-witted
 - Hard to penetrate
 - Highly concentrated
 - Hard to get through
 - Jam-packed
 - Hardly suited for 57-Across
 - Hardly sparse
 - Dull
 - Slow to catch on
 - Hard to get through to
 - Not bright
 - Not at all sharp
 - Like heavy fog
 - Like thickets
 - Like some fog
 - Hard to see through
 - Not too bright
 - Slow
 - None too swift
 - Heavy, as fog
 - Thickly packed
 - Really crammed in
 - Closely compacted
 - Closely crowded together
 - Tough to get through to
 - Slow to understand
 - Not too astute
 - Compact
 - Far from 22-Down
 - A little on the slow side
 - Cement-headed
 - Like a thicket
 - Overgrown
 - Very thick
 - Like urban populations
 - Crowded together
 - Not sparse
 - Tough to get through
 - Stupid
 - Like a dumbbell
 - Not Mensa material
 - Like a black hole
 - Like depleted uranium
 - Packed with ideas, as an essay
 - Practically impenetrable
 - None too smart
 - Heavily populated
 - Dimwitted
 - Not the sharpest tool in the shed
 - Packed tightly
 - Thick, like fog
 - No rocket scientist
 - Not so swift on the uptake
 - Compacted
 - Not getting it
 - Bubble-headed
 - Like dunderheads
 - Thick, as fog
 - Like a copse
 - Thick in a couple of ways
 - Not very bright
 - Like pea-soup fog
 - A few fries short of a Happy Meal
 - Like some populations
 - Scarcely bright
 - Packed in tight
 - Like Archie's pal Moose
 - Dumb as a box of rocks
 - Like rain forests
 - A few bits short of a byte
 - A few players short of a team
 - Like a neutron star
 - Close-packed
 - Like a blockhead
 - Hard to hack a path through
 - Thickset
 - Unable to get it, say
 - Crammed in
 - Complex
 - Like urban population
 - Like a pea-soup fog
 - Difficult to get through
 - Not exactly Mensa material
 - Populous
 - Hard to see through, as fog
 - Dumb as a rock
 - Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree
 - Closely packed
 - Not too quick on the uptake
 - Heavy for its size
 - Like thick fog
 - Tightly compressed
 - Compact and tight together
 - Jammed
 - Very compact
 - Heavy, as a fog
 - Dumb
 - Highly populous
 - Closely clustered
 - Like flourless cakes
 - Not very clear
 - "Infinite" descriptor of black holes
 - Compressed
 - ___ fog
 - Like some forests and fog
 - Packed in like sardines
 - Fog word
 - Like a thick fog
 - Junglelike
 - Fog modifier
 - Like flourless cake
 - Hard to get through ... or get through to
 - Opposite of fluffy, for a cake
 - Like dumbbells
 - Pretty thick
 - Like the element osmium
 - Like flourless chocolate cake
 - Mentally slow
 - Like lead or gold, notably
 - Like a complex report
 - Like pound cake
 - Rather thick
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 19, 2025
 - New York Times - August 25, 2025
 - New York Times - August 25, 2025
 - LA Times - July 01, 2025
 - New York Times - May 20, 2025
 - LA Times - April 20, 2025
 - New York Times - March 10, 2025
 - USA Today - March 05, 2025
 - USA Today - January 16, 2025
 - LA Times - November 21, 2024
 - LA Times - October 06, 2024
 - USA Today - September 09, 2024
 - USA Today - August 21, 2024
 - LA Times - May 24, 2024
 - LA Times - April 26, 2024
 - LA Times - April 19, 2024
 - New York Times - March 14, 2024
 - USA Today - November 24, 2023
 - USA Today - October 31, 2023
 - New York Times - October 19, 2023
 
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