Answer: SASS
SASS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 253 times.
Referring Clues:
- Cheek
 - Get fresh with
 - Back talk
 - Act saucy
 - Be impudent
 - Lip
 - Disrespect
 - Smart stuff
 - Get smart with
 - Insolence
 - Words of disrespect
 - Disrespect, in a way
 - Challenge authority
 - Talk trash to
 - Answer defiantly
 - Reason for detention, maybe
 - Guff
 - Backtalk
 - Rejoin rudely
 - Smart talk
 - Cheekiness
 - Impertinent talk
 - Get smart
 - Reason for a parental reprimand
 - Mouth, so to speak
 - Cause for a child's scolding
 - Talk back to
 - Answer with attitude
 - Mouth off to
 - Talk back
 - Impertinence
 - Show disrespect to
 - Get snippy with
 - Impudence
 - Fresh talk
 - Freshness
 - Freshness
 - Snippiness
 - Impudent talk
 - Talk that might get one in trouble
 - Mouthing off
 - Reason for parental scolding
 - Cause for a kid getting grounded
 - Give lip to
 - Answer with an attitude
 - Get smart?
 - Mouth off
 - Verbal impudence
 - Fresh kid's feedback
 - Mouth
 - Be disrespectful to
 - Give one the business
 - Fresh response
 - Say freshly
 - Disrespectful back talk
 - Be rude to
 - Be cheeky with
 - Impudent speech
 - Give back talk to
 - Fresh approach?
 - Some teenager talk
 - Smart remarks?
 - Fresh words
 - Be bratty with
 - Cheek or lip
 - Answer back
 - Talk freshly to
 - Brash talk
 - Be impertinent
 - Disrespectful talk
 - Give some lip to
 - Pert blurt
 - Flirt with a grounding
 - Give lip
 - Disrespect verbally
 - Impudent reply
 - Treat disrespectfully
 - Disrespect orally
 - Talk disrespectfully to
 - Fresh response?
 - Lip service
 - Answer back in an impudent manner
 - Dis verbally
 - Cause for a child's punishment, perhaps
 - Verbally disrespect
 - Brat's rebuttal
 - Rude rejoinder
 - Challenge authority, in a way
 - Be disrespectful to, in a way
 - Feistiness
 - Reason for detention
 - Unwelcome talk
 - Insolent act
 - Contents of snippy retorts
 - Verbal feistiness
 - Bratty outburst
 - Reason to scold a child
 - Get wise with
 - Lip or cheek
 - Respond with an attitude
 - Cheeky talk
 - Be bratty with, in a way
 - Child's offense
 - Bratty talk
 - Impudent back talk
 - Pert talk
 - Reason to scold a kid
 - Grounds for grounding?
 - Fresh lines?
 - Reason for grounding, perhaps
 - Cheeky chatter
 - Cheeky behavior
 - Bad thing to give an umpire
 - Snippy comeback
 - Sign of disrespect
 - Impudent earful
 - Mouth off at
 - Heckle
 - Wise off to
 - Pizzazz
 - Spunk
 - Sign of freshness
 - Imprudent talk
 - Reason for a reprimand
 - Insolent talk
 - Talk impudently
 - Give guff to
 - Cause for a kid's grounding
 - Pertness
 - Impudent response
 - Lip off to
 - Smart answers
 - Talk back or back talk
 - Give some lip
 - Back-talk
 - Mouthy lip
 - Act the wisenheimer
 - Wise off
 - Demerit generator
 - Insolent rejoinder
 - Be smart with
 - Reason for a parental reprimand, perhaps
 - Some sharp words
 - Answers that may anger
 - Fresh answers, say
 - Smart-alecky talk
 - Brat's comeback
 - Be bratty
 - Get lippy
 - Brat's response
 - Rude response
 - Effrontery
 - *1-/53-Down
 - Brashness
 - Be rude to, in a way
 - Brat talk
 - Give cheek
 - Smart comments
 - Brat's talk
 - Run off at the mouth
 - Challenge for a babysitter
 - Grounds for a time-out
 - It's delivered freshly
 - An impudent rejoinder
 - Vocal impertinence
 - Possible grounds for grounding
 - Get cheeky with
 - Bratty retort
 - Common reason for a timeout
 - Talk fresh to
 - Impudent stuff
 - Be mouthy
 - Be fresh
 - Bratty comeback
 - Possible cause for a time-out
 - Product of a disrespectful mouth
 - Lippy language
 - Provide backtalk
 - Fresh answers
 - Feisty backtalk
 - Give wise remarks
 - Answer back disrespectfully
 - Smart answer, sometimes
 - Spew backtalk
 - What a well-behaved child doesn't do
 - Smart-alecky backtalk
 - Unwelcome comeback
 - Brat's output
 - Freshness of the spoiled
 - Wisenheimer's talk
 - Feisty verbal comebacks
 - Verbal attitude
 - Inappropriate backtalk
 - Wisecracks and zingers
 - Teen talk?
 - Talk defiantly
 - Attitude
 - See 6-down
 - Get lippy with
 - Be flippant with
 - Bratty yap-yap
 - Fresh-mouthed talk
 - Unwanted lip
 - Be flippant
 - Unappreciated talk
 - Answer politely? No
 - What "Talk to the hand!" is an example of
 - Stylishness
 - Talk smack to
 - Bratty replies
 - Rebellious teen's talk
 - Be bratty with
 - Say "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face ain't listenin'," say
 - Snippy return
 - Fresh quality
 - Some wisecracks
 - Cheeky remarks
 - Some freshness
 - Fresh nature
 - Time-out talk?
 - Cheeky comments
 - Bratty backtalk
 - Impudent replies
 - Defiant talk
 - "You can't make me!," e.g.
 - See 48-Across
 - Smart-alecky responses
 - Give attitude
 - Talk back to rudely
 - Time-out cause
 - Spiritedness
 - Bratty comebacks
 - Fresh stuff
 - Undesirable freshness
 - Spirited quality
 - Ask "Why should I?," say
 - Be wise to
 - Speak disrespectfully to
 - 'Tude
 - Spunkiness
 - Drag queen's trait
 - Chutzpah
 - Flippant freshness
 - Give lip service?
 - Pert reply
 - *tude
 - Cheeky answers
 - Snippy attitude
 - Fresh answer, maybe
 - Bratty attitude
 - Flip response
 - Bratty back talk
 - Bit of lip
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 29, 2025
 - New York Times - October 14, 2025
 - USA Today - September 30, 2025
 - USA Today - September 25, 2025
 - USA Today - September 18, 2025
 - LA Times - July 30, 2025
 - LA Times - July 20, 2025
 - LA Times - July 14, 2025
 - USA Today - July 08, 2025
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 - USA Today - April 23, 2025
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 - USA Today - April 15, 2025
 - LA Times - April 08, 2025
 - New York Times - April 07, 2025
 - LA Times - March 27, 2025
 - New York Times - February 27, 2025
 
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