Answer: MESS
MESS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 339 times.
Referring Clues:
- Disorder
 - Meal at boot camp
 - Mare's-nest
 - Meal eaten in a hall
 - Shambles
 - Dump
 - Clutter
 - Dinner at boot camp
 - Imbroglio
 - Snafu
 - Sergeant's supper
 - Fix
 - Quantico cuisine
 - With 23-Across, where campers eat
 - Chaos
 - Marine's meal
 - Word before call or hall
 - Military lunchroom
 - Bungle, with "up"
 - Private dining room?
 - Scrape
 - Military meal
 - Leathernecks' lunch
 - Confusion
 - Boot camp fare
 - Jumble
 - Many a teen's room
 - Camp vittles
 - Predicament
 - ___ hall
 - Many an attic
 - Event in a hall
 - Many a teenager's room
 - Untidiness
 - Mishmash
 - Soldiers' meal
 - Result of a ransacking
 - Part of a camp schedule
 - Cafeteria, to a soldier
 - Post meal
 - Where the crew chows down
 - State of some kids' rooms
 - Pigsty
 - Kettle of fish, so to speak
 - Jam
 - Result of baby's first spaghetti dinner
 - Plight
 - Service meal
 - Dormitory room, often
 - Muddle
 - GI's diner
 - Private meal?
 - Pickle
 - Bollix (with "up")
 - Confused condition
 - Fine kettle of fish, so to speak
 - Slob's creation
 - It's served in the service
 - Hodgepodge
 - Army meal
 - Quagmire
 - Company dinner
 - Play (with)
 - Botch, with "up"
 - Scow chow
 - Private hall?
 - Difficult situation
 - Whole load
 - Boot camp chow
 - Word with call or hall
 - Bollix (up)
 - Private dining spot?
 - Meal at the base
 - Private diet?
 - A slob makes one
 - Get involved (in)
 - Neatnik nettler
 - Private dinner?
 - Disorderly condition
 - Felix Unger's pet peeve
 - Army grub
 - Extreme disarray
 - Cleanup target
 - Disarray
 - Many a teenager's room, to mom
 - A teen's room, maybe
 - Sloppy situation
 - Army chow
 - Disorderly place
 - Tinker (with)
 - Interfere
 - Unpleasant situation
 - Cluttered condition
 - Untidy place
 - Something disordered
 - Boot-camp cuisine
 - Cuisine for corporals
 - Where sergeants eat
 - Army dining room
 - It's untidy
 - Something to clean up
 - Unkempt state
 - Army eatery
 - Military chow
 - Grunt's grub
 - Untidy, disordered condition
 - Barracks break
 - Untidy condition
 - Total disorder
 - Kettle of fish
 - McGee's closet, e.g.
 - Stan Laurel creation, often
 - Camp meal
 - Military fare
 - K.P.'s milieu
 - Army chow hall
 - Dilemma
 - Unwieldy situation
 - Putter (around)
 - Camp eatery
 - Camp fare
 - Sloppy condition
 - Boot-camp fare
 - Disorderly heap
 - State of disarray
 - Supper, to some in uniform
 - Teen's room, stereotypically
 - Boot's meal
 - Recruit's fare
 - Army repast
 - Chaotic state
 - Complicated situation
 - Base meal
 - Meal on a military base
 - Army camp vittles
 - Big job for a housekeeper
 - Sustenance for a fatigued person?
 - Meddle (with)
 - Private eatery?
 - Sup with soldiers
 - Company dinner?
 - Mare's nest
 - Private meal
 - Servings for those serving
 - Disastrous display
 - Boot camp meal
 - Ugly situation
 - Untidy situation
 - Job for a cleanup crew
 - "Fine" predicament
 - Hoarder's problem
 - Kid's creation?
 - Sticky situation
 - Officer's dining hall
 - Meddle (in)
 - Cleaning challenge
 - Officers canteen
 - Private dinner
 - Neatnik's bane
 - GIs' dinner
 - Total disarray
 - Utter disarray
 - Recruits' repast
 - Hodge-podge
 - Botch (up)
 - Waste time
 - Service dining hall
 - Bad situation
 - Pigsty, so to speak
 - Housekeeper's challenge
 - What a slob leaves
 - Embarrassing situation
 - Complete foul-up
 - Mess
 - What a slob makes
 - Teenager's room, stereotypically
 - Private lunch area
 - Child's room, often
 - Cause disorder
 - Botch
 - Meal in the military
 - Military chow hall
 - Tamper (with)
 - Untidy state
 - Base fare
 - State of confusion
 - Fool (with)
 - Place for military meals
 - Disorganized jumble
 - Neatnik's nightmare
 - Bungle (with "up")
 - Untidy heap
 - Total screwup
 - Whole bunch
 - Sloppy state
 - Private dining locale?
 - Things everywhere
 - ___ hall
 - Marine cuisine
 - Big trouble
 - Meal on "M*A*S*H"
 - Soldier's supper
 - Disarray literally found in 19-, 22-, 49-, and 52-Across
 - Officers' digs
 - Thing that's far from tidy
 - Thing to tidy up
 - Private lunch?
 - Awful state
 - Situation to be cleaned up
 - Fine kettle of fish
 - Private dining area?
 - Wreck
 - Place for private dining?
 - Seriously untidy state
 - Clean-up target
 - Untidy scene
 - Tamper
 - G.I.'s hall or kit
 - Navy chow
 - Discombobulation
 - Get entangled (with)
 - State of clutter
 - Like Augean stables
 - Dining hall fare
 - NCO's hall
 - Muddle or plight
 - Eyesore
 - Private fuel source
 - GI meal
 - Unenviable situation
 - Military cafeteria
 - Fiddle (with)
 - GI dining hall
 - Untidy one's creation
 - Cleanup candidate
 - See 124-Down
 - Dinner in the corps
 - Disorderly accumulation
 - Difficult spot
 - "Nice" Laurel and Hardy predicament
 - Interfere (with)
 - Army cafeteria
 - Word after hot or before kit
 - Serious disorder
 - Dinner on base
 - Sorry situation
 - "Don't ___ with Texas"
 - Officers club
 - Sorry state
 - State of chaos
 - Unclean state
 - Major muddle
 - It requires housekeeping
 - Chaotic scene
 - Aftermath of baby's spaghetti dinner
 - Lieutenant's lunch
 - Cleanup crew's target
 - Type of hall
 - Mountain (of)
 - A finger painter may make one
 - Place for private dinner
 - Slob's production
 - Word from Old French for "portion of food"
 - Cluttered state
 - Army dinner
 - Baby-with-spaghetti result
 - Pickle or jam
 - Fingerpainting aftermath, maybe
 - Disorderly scene
 - Officers diner
 - Kind of hall
 - Disarrange
 - Filthy state
 - Food in a hall
 - Untidy room
 - Major disorder
 - Make a mistake, with "up"
 - A fingerpainter might make one
 - Slob's leavings
 - Result of disorderly conduct?
 - Result of spilling the beans
 - Children's playroom, often
 - Handle carelessly, with "with"
 - Confusing situation
 - Significant quantity
 - Room littered with toys, e.g.
 - Hot ___
 - Big job for an organizer
 - Hot ___ (disaster)
 - Chaotic situation
 - Fiasco
 - Disorderly situation
 - Pile that needs straightening up
 - Untidy spot
 - It calls for sweeping action
 - Target of a cleanup
 - Challenge for the cleaning staff
 - Squalor
 - Jacket or kit
 - Pile of clutter
 - Disorganized state
 - State of untidiness
 - Confusion result
 - Room with toys everywhere, say
 - Organizer's challenge
 - Extreme clutter
 - Opposite of 25-Down
 - Can of worms
 - Private dining room
 - Extreme disorder
 - Cluttered situation
 - Target of tidying
 - Evidence of disorderly conduct?
 - Aftermath of an out-of-control party
 - Something a toddler might make at mealtime
 - Something that needs tidying up
 - Sloppy surroundings
 - Word with hot or fine
 - Kitchen description after Spaghetti Sunday
 - Aftermath of a toddler's meal
 - It might get served in a mess
 - Scene of chaos
 - Crew area on a cruise ship
 - Thing to tidy
 - Toy (with)
 - Knotty tangle
 - Stylike state
 - Private meal spot?
 - Likely aftermath of a toddler's playtime
 - "Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this ___" (Taylor Swift lyric)
 - MASH potatoes, etc.
 - Total jumble
 - What a toddler might leave behind
 - Rat's nest
 - Futz around (with)
 - State of disorder
 - "Embrace the glorious ___ that you are": Elizabeth Gilbert
 - Eton ___ (traditional English dessert)
 - Total sty
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 20, 2025
 - USA Today - October 08, 2025
 - New York Times - September 23, 2025
 - New York Times - June 26, 2025
 - LA Times - May 25, 2025
 - New York Times - May 24, 2025
 - LA Times - May 16, 2025
 - USA Today - May 14, 2025
 - USA Today - May 09, 2025
 - New York Times - May 03, 2025
 - USA Today - April 18, 2025
 - New York Times - April 16, 2025
 - LA Times - March 26, 2025
 - LA Times - March 23, 2025
 - LA Times - March 01, 2025
 - New York Times - February 10, 2025
 - USA Today - January 28, 2025
 - USA Today - January 23, 2025
 - New York Times - December 10, 2024
 - LA Times - October 13, 2024
 
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