Answer: MESSY
MESSY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 153 times.
Referring Clues:
- Rather awkward
- Cluttered
- Not well-groomed
- Slovenly
- Tangled
- Like Oscar Madison
- Like some divorces
- Stylike
- Neat's opposite
- Not neat
- Hard to resolve
- Chaotic
- Disorganized
- Having entanglements
- Unpleasant
- Unkempt
- Piglike
- Hard to settle
- Fraught with complications
- Like dorm rooms, often
- Tough to sort out
- Poorly organized
- Complicated, as a divorce
- Rancorous, as a divorce
- Tangled up
- Difficult to resolve
- Like Oscar's bedroom
- Like many a teenager's room
- Rumpled
- Distasteful to Felix, e.g.
- Not at all neat
- In disarray
- Not well-kept
- Tough to resolve
- Sloppy
- Disheveled
- Extremely unpleasant
- Like acrimonious divorces
- Like Oscar Madison's room
- Complicated
- Tousled
- Like a 42-Down
- Difficult to straighten out
- Difficult
- Needing tidying
- Difficult to reconcile
- All disheveled
- Needing a cleaning
- Awkward
- Untidy
- Like Marvin
- Like many kids' rooms
- Littered, e.g.
- In disorder
- Disorderly
- Like sties
- Disordered
- In need of picking up
- Not for neatniks
- Befitting a slob
- Not tidy
- In need of grooming
- Embarrassing
- Hard to clean up
- Piggish
- Difficult to deal with
- Not simple to settle
- Like an unmade bed
- Far from orderly
- Like a sty
- Like a slob
- Hardly neat
- Unpleasantly difficult
- Topsy-turvy
- Requiring a bib
- Reminiscent of a pigsty
- Sordid
- Like drawn-out divorces
- Like rats' nests
- Like many a dorm room
- Like some breakups
- Like finger painting
- Bedraggled
- Complicated, as a breakup
- Disarrayed
- Far from spiffy
- Convoluted
- Overly involved
- Far from shipshape
- Like many teenagers' rooms
- Needing neatening
- Like a scandal
- Needing to be picked up
- Like many dorm rooms
- Like Buffalo wings, eating-wise
- Certainly not tidy
- Chaotic, as a situation
- Very untidy
- Embarrassing, as a situation
- Like finger-paint
- All over the place
- Every which way
- Needing lots of napkins
- Quite unlike Felix Ungar
- Not at all in order
- Quite disorganized
- Disorderly or untidy
- Dirty and disorderly
- Far from tidy
- Not easily resolved
- Highly inconvenient
- Antonym of 64-Across
- Like pre-utensil babies
- Out of order?
- Far from organized
- Not close to shipshape
- Not yet tidied
- Needing straightening
- Entirely untidy
- Haphazard
- Having lots of loose ends
- Difficult to sort out
- Distasteful to a neat freak
- Far from well kept
- Like a cluttered room
- Like a desk that's a sign of genius, it's said
- Like a bad breakup
- Littered with toys, say
- Unlike Marie Kondo's home, presumably
- Hardly tidy
- In need of cleanup
- Rather inconvenient
- Jumbled
- Like contested divorces
- Like Oscar of "The Odd Couple" or "Sesame Street"
- Dog's breakfast
- Like a stereotypical teen's room
- Like Oscar in "The Odd Couple"
- Complicated, as a relationship
- Like a breakup gone bad
- Like a kindergarten room, often
- Like hands after eating ribs
- In need of a good clean
- Like some hair buns
- In need of tidying
- Like some breakups and dorm rooms
- Like slime-making kits
- Littered with clothes say
- Like a baby with pudding, probably
- Like a toddler with finger paints
- Like some bad breakups
- Like some desks and divorces
- Like some buns
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - August 20, 2025
- LA Times - July 14, 2025
- New York Times - June 17, 2025
- New York Times - May 27, 2025
- USA Today - April 25, 2025
- LA Times - March 30, 2025
- USA Today - January 16, 2025
- New York Times - November 30, 2024
- New York Times - September 12, 2024
- LA Times - June 16, 2024
- USA Today - May 30, 2024
- LA Times - May 17, 2024
- LA Times - March 26, 2024
- New York Times - February 01, 2024
- LA Times - July 20, 2023
- USA Today - June 05, 2023
- New York Times - May 15, 2023
- LA Times - March 20, 2023
- USA Today - December 16, 2022
- LA Times - October 29, 2022
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