Answer: OBESE
OBESE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 321 times.
Referring Clues:
- Like Falstaff
 - More than plump
 - More than tubby
 - Wide-bodied
 - Corpulent plus
 - Corpulent
 - More than big
 - Potbellied, plus
 - Like most sumo wrestlers
 - Portly plus
 - Having made substantial gains?
 - Having a lot to lose?
 - Having a lot to lose
 - Portly and then some
 - Needing to take off
 - Heavy-plus
 - Bigger than 36-Down
 - More than large
 - Far from spare
 - Like Henry VIII
 - Overly overweight
 - Like a 500-pounder
 - More than pudgy
 - Not just fat
 - Way too weighty
 - Needing to cut down
 - Hard to miss
 - Overweight
 - Not good at losing
 - Too big
 - More than heavy
 - Beyond pudgy
 - Past plump
 - Opposite of wasted
 - Way too heavy
 - Really big
 - Fatter than fat
 - Very big
 - Packing way too much
 - Overextended?
 - Scale-busting
 - More than fat
 - Mighty big
 - Bigger than big
 - Overweight plus
 - Way overdue to take off?
 - Waist-ful?
 - Much too big for one's britches?
 - In need of middle management?
 - Overly large
 - On the wide side
 - More than chubby
 - Beyond beefy
 - Like rapper Heavy D
 - Beyond plump
 - Much too big for one's britches
 - Beyond pleasantly plump
 - Much more than plump
 - Rotund and then some
 - Excessively fat
 - Unpleasantly plump
 - Like Jabba the Hutt
 - Tubby and then some
 - Way past plump
 - At the high end of the scale
 - With a lot to lose
 - Falstaffian
 - Rotund plus
 - Far too fleshy
 - Way too big
 - Far from svelte
 - Packing a lot of extra baggage, so to speak
 - Quite overweight
 - Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants, initially
 - Like a competitor on "The Biggest Loser"
 - Beyond big
 - Having a high body mass index
 - Like sumo wrestlers
 - Like some intestinal bypass patients
 - More than just pleasingly plump
 - Way beyond pleasingly plump
 - Having a lot to lose, maybe?
 - Quite heavy
 - Extra large?
 - Very upscale?
 - Not merely tubby
 - More than chunky
 - Having a body mass index of 30 or more
 - Like Gwyneth Paltrow's character in "Shallow Hal"
 - Beyond fat
 - Like a dog that might go on the drug Slentrol
 - Bloated
 - Unlike gymnasts
 - Like Nero Wolfe
 - Like some targets of weightists' biases
 - Very weighty
 - Like Augustus Gloop
 - Extremely overweight
 - Dramatically overweight
 - Quite weighty
 - Very heavy
 - More than just big
 - Large and then some
 - Needing a seat belt extender, say
 - Like Bustopher Jones of "Cats"
 - Rather heavy
 - A lot more than pleasingly plump
 - Calorically challenged?
 - Quite big
 - Not just rotund
 - Chubby and then some
 - Seriously chubby
 - Not just heavy
 - Potbellied plus
 - Hardly svelte
 - Unpleasingly plump
 - Like Santa Claus
 - Santa-like
 - Like Humpty Dumpty
 - Santalike
 - Literally, ''eaten away''
 - Like St. Nick
 - Hardly skinny
 - With a lot to lose?
 - More than portly
 - Having a BMI over 30
 - Too tubby
 - Beyond overweight
 - Too big for one's britches?
 - Ample at the equator, say
 - Too big, weightwise
 - Tipping the scales
 - Beyond zaftig
 - Quite rotund
 - Plump and then some
 - Big, in bariatrics
 - Qualifying for sumo wrestling, e.g.
 - Far beyond zaftig
 - Weighty
 - In need of a diet
 - Ready for Weight Watchers
 - Scale-tipping
 - Opposite of wasting away
 - Beyond chubby
 - Like many a sumo wrestler
 - Word from the Latin for "devour"
 - Not just big
 - Way too flabby
 - Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee
 - Humpty Dumpty-like
 - Extremely upscale?
 - Past portly
 - Struggling with middle management?
 - Like President Taft
 - Not merely chubby
 - Like Sherman Klump
 - At the high end of the scale?
 - Carrying a lot of weight
 - Off-the-scale?
 - Stout
 - Like some with sedentary lifestyles
 - Plus-sized, plus
 - Literally, "eaten away"
 - Way bigger than big
 - Packing way too much, in a way
 - Too big, in a way
 - Like Elvis, later on
 - Not just plump
 - Big, medically
 - Well beyond chubby
 - Like contestants on "The Biggest Loser"
 - Rotund
 - Far past plump
 - Big, big, big
 - Portly
 - Like the Kung Fu Panda
 - Like a Kung Fu Panda
 - Not at all good at losing?
 - Like an early contestant on "The Biggest Loser"
 - Beyond chunky
 - Like bodies in some "before" pictures
 - Past pudgy
 - Fat
 - Chunky to the max
 - Plump
 - Unpleasantly plump?
 - Not just pudgy
 - Very overweight
 - Not merely plump
 - Not just chubby
 - Unpleas-ingly plump
 - Really rotund
 - Not just stout
 - Like Santa
 - Very portly
 - Like Buddha or Santa
 - Sumo-sized
 - "Equatorially" ample
 - Beyond husky
 - Too weighty
 - Like most humans in "WALL-E"
 - Too big for one's breeches?
 - Morbidly adipose
 - Eligible for "The Biggest Loser"
 - Way past pudgy
 - Far from sylphlike
 - Profoundly round
 - Past chunky
 - Supersized
 - Carrying a lot?
 - Far from slim
 - Needing to take off?
 - Like a contestant auditioning to be on "The Biggest Loser"
 - Blubbery
 - Really moving the needle, in a way
 - Seriously overweight
 - More than a little plump
 - Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants
 - Extra-fat
 - With a high BMI
 - Tubby
 - Tubby plus
 - Overlarge
 - More than rotund
 - Like some people with elevated BMI
 - More than heavyset
 - Having a high BMI
 - Needing to lose?
 - Overly fat
 - Way overweight
 - Extra-large
 - XXX large
 - Greatly in need of a diet
 - Beyond just chubby
 - Like a sumo wrestler
 - Not just overweight
 - Way too big for one's britches
 - What Santa Claus is
 - Big,big,big,
 - Suitable for a bariatrics study
 - Beyond portly
 - Qualified to appear on "The Biggest Loser"
 - Much more than chunky
 - Heavy, plus
 - Heavy and then some
 - Jabba the Hutt descriptor
 - Overly heavy
 - Descriptor defined by the National Institutes of Health
 - More than merely big-boned
 - Jumbo-sized
 - Chubby plus
 - With much to lose?
 - Chubby
 - Quite hefty
 - Very large
 - Beyond rotund
 - Morbidly fat
 - Severely overweight
 - Like one contemplating bariatric surgery
 - Pudgy plus
 - Falstaffian in body
 - Portly, plus
 - Built round?
 - Carrying a lot of extra baggage, so to speak
 - Far from anorexic
 - Having lots to lose
 - Too big for one's britches, say?
 - Pounded to the max?
 - Like Cleveland or Taft
 - Overly pounded?
 - Long way from slim
 - Needing a seatbelt extender, say
 - Needing two airline seats, say
 - Seriously corpulent
 - In need of liposuction, perhaps
 - Like one qualifying for gastric bypass
 - Like a candidate for lap band surgery
 - Much more than chubby
 - Extremely endomorphic
 - Not just portly
 - Dangerously heavy
 - Having a lot to lose, maybe
 - Like cartoondom's Peter Griffin or Chief Wiggum
 - Jabba-esque
 - Like those who really have guts?
 - More than a little heavy
 - Not just tubby
 - Like Arbuckle
 - Too fed up?
 - Very fat
 - With lots of rolls?
 - Big like Santa
 - Like "Extreme Weight Loss" contestants
 - Bulge
 - Pinguid
 - Eligible for a gastric bypass
 - Needing two seats, perhaps
 - Like Stout's Wolfe
 - Busting the scales
 - Like a gastric bypass patient
 - Having a high B.M.I., say
 - Unhealthily heavy
 - Sporting a beer belly
 - More than a bit heavy
 - Falstaff-like
 - Not just corpulent
 - Beyond heavy
 - Having a very high body mass index
 - Like Stout's Nero Wolfe
 - Like Ignatius J. Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces"
 - Too big for one's own good
 - Very corpulent
 - Falstaffian, in a way
 - Like the humans in "WALL-E"
 - Like sumo wrestlers, medically speaking
 - Like many sumo wrestlers
 - Like many bodybuilders, according to B.M.I. alone
 - Like Brendan Fraser's character in "The Whale"
 - Classification on a B.M.I. chart
 - Overly big
 - Like sci-fi's Jabba the Hutt
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 09, 2025
 - New York Times - April 24, 2025
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 - New York Times - December 10, 2023
 - LA Times - September 24, 2023
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 - New York Times - March 12, 2023
 - LA Times - January 02, 2023
 - New York Times - December 11, 2022
 - LA Times - November 29, 2022
 - New York Times - October 07, 2022
 - New York Times - June 22, 2022
 - LA Times - December 08, 2021
 - New York Times - December 04, 2021
 - LA Times - September 05, 2021
 - New York Times - July 04, 2021
 - LA Times - March 30, 2021
 
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