Answer: MEAN
MEAN is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 152 times.
Referring Clues:
- Ill-tempered
 - Downright nasty
 - Part of G.M.T.
 - Penny-pinching
 - Middle figure
 - Nasty
 - Stand for
 - Ignoble
 - Villainous
 - Aim
 - Unkind
 - Statistics calculation
 - Imply
 - The Beatles' "__ Mr. Mustard"
 - Bell curve figure
 - Bad-tempered
 - Playing dirty tricks
 - Lowdown
 - Signify
 - Suggest
 - Average
 - Cruel
 - Willfully tightening the screws, say
 - Have as a definition
 - Intend
 - Have in mind
 - Downright miserly
 - Contemptible
 - Bad-spirited
 - Part of GMT
 - Malicious
 - Base
 - No ___ feat
 - Adjective for Simon Legree
 - Statistician’s figure
 - Not very nice
 - Scrooge-like
 - Stingy
 - Like taking candy from a baby?
 - Not at all nice
 - Wicked
 - Hard-hearted
 - Statistical calculation
 - Ill-intentioned
 - Like a 122 Across
 - Far from genteel
 - Spiteful
 - ''... sure plays a ___ pinball'' (The Who)
 - "And I ___ business!"
 - Like the Grinch
 - Plebeian
 - Like a schoolyard bully
 - Blackhearted
 - Like Scrooge McDuck
 - Average, to a statistician
 - Intend to say
 - Add up to
 - Churlish
 - Not the least bit nice
 - Uncharitable
 - Not so nice
 - Nasty companion?
 - Far from nice
 - Black-hearted
 - Ugly
 - ___-spirited
 - "... sure plays a ___ pinball" (The Who)
 - Like Mr. Mustard or Joe Greene
 - Hurtful
 - Statistician's middle
 - Scroogelike
 - Ornery
 - Statisticians figure
 - Middle course
 - Translate as
 - Vicious
 - Like a bully
 - Just plain nasty
 - Greenwich ___ Time
 - Bell curve center
 - Miserly
 - Ogreish
 - Like Tommy's pinball playing
 - With 35-Down, have no malice
 - It's not quite average, in math class
 - Closefisted
 - Like a junkyard dog
 - Far from friendly
 - Be sincere
 - Cussed
 - Skillful, slangily
 - Important statistic
 - Represent
 - Be defined as
 - Denote
 - Disagreeable
 - Certainly not nice
 - *Standard deviation deviates from it
 - Like Snidely Whiplash
 - Bullying
 - Small-minded
 - Part 4 of a Labour Day quotation
 - Like Legree
 - Inconsequential
 - Not nice at all
 - Not easy to get along with
 - Statistics class figure
 - Not nice
 - Math class calculation
 - Intend (to)
 - Malicious or miserly
 - Data set average
 - Obnoxious
 - Quite unkind
 - Unlikely to help out
 - Math average
 - ___ woman blues
 - Like Dicken's Murdstone
 - 2.5, for the set {1, 2, 3, 4}
 - Like a penny-pincher
 - Dirty, as tricks
 - Shabby
 - Indicate
 - Attempt to convey
 - Far from charitable
 - Statistical average
 - "See what I ___?"
 - "What do you ___?"
 - Word before streak or business
 - "___ Girls"
 - Intended to be hurtful
 - Not kind
 - Actually have in mind
 - Actually intend
 - More than a little unkind
 - Far from benevolent
 - Statistician's calculation
 - Partner of median and mode
 - Word before "Streets" and "Girls" in film titles
 - Something to regress to
 - 5, for the set [2, 4, 6, 8]
 - "What do you ___ by that?"
 - "I didn't ___ to!"
 - Baseborn
 - Like 31 across behavior
 - "What do you ___?" (question Jennifer Lawrence anxiously repeats in a meme)
 - Catty
 - Word after golden or before Girls
 - Lean and ___
 - Excellent, average or bad, depending on the context
 - 8 vis-à-vis 7 and 9
 - Average in math class?
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 26, 2025
 - LA Times - July 24, 2025
 - New York Times - July 04, 2025
 - USA Today - April 07, 2025
 - New York Times - March 22, 2025
 - LA Times - March 11, 2025
 - LA Times - March 04, 2025
 - New York Times - February 21, 2025
 - New York Times - December 13, 2024
 - New York Times - November 24, 2024
 - LA Times - November 22, 2024
 - USA Today - August 15, 2024
 - New York Times - July 03, 2024
 - LA Times - July 02, 2024
 - New York Times - May 03, 2024
 - USA Today - December 18, 2023
 - LA Times - December 07, 2023
 - LA Times - November 23, 2023
 - LA Times - November 19, 2023
 - LA Times - September 10, 2023
 
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