Answer: STEEP
STEEP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 159 times.
Referring Clues:
- At quite an incline
 - Exorbitant
 - Pricey
 - Like a bluff
 - Brew
 - Causing sticker shock
 - Awfully high
 - Rather inclined
 - Not gradual
 - Very expensive
 - Prepare, as tea
 - Hardly cheap
 - Tough to climb, perhaps
 - Very inclined
 - Expensive
 - Precipitous
 - Soak
 - Acclivitous
 - Brew, in a teapot
 - High-priced
 - Big-ticket
 - Difficult to scale
 - Like the face of El Capitan
 - Highly inclined
 - Prepare tea
 - Pretty pricy
 - Cheap's rhyming antonym
 - Quite high
 - Brew in a teapot
 - Likely to cause sticker shock
 - Awfully expensive
 - Cheap's rhyming opposite
 - Not gentle, as a hill
 - Like a canyon's sides
 - Prohibitive, perhaps
 - Extremely high, as prices
 - Soak, as a tea bag
 - Very costly
 - Immerse
 - Hard to climb
 - Hard to afford
 - Like an A-frame roof
 - Brew, as tea
 - Let sit, as a tea bag
 - Declivitous
 - Of high elevation
 - Like El Capitan's face
 - Quite expensive
 - Highly sloped
 - Ready tea
 - Dear, as a price
 - Hard to climb, perhaps
 - Brew in a teapot, e.g.
 - Costly
 - Sharply inclined
 - Excessive, as prices
 - Make tea
 - Like some prices
 - Exorbitant, as prices
 - High, pricewise
 - High, as a price
 - Costing a pretty penny
 - Drench
 - Sheer
 - Virtually vertical
 - What a learning curve may be
 - Mountainous
 - Almost straight up and down, as a cliff
 - Like a cliff
 - Like cliffs
 - Percolate
 - Like some slopes
 - Marinate
 - Prepare the Oolong
 - Rhyming antonym of "cheap"
 - Be in hot water
 - Overly costly
 - Sharply sloped
 - Like the fiscal cliff?
 - Considerable, as discounts
 - Tough to climb
 - Nearly vertical
 - Exorbitant, as a cost
 - High-end
 - Awfully high, as a price
 - Precipitous slope
 - Likely to tax one's budget
 - Pickle, e.g.
 - Severely inclined
 - Unreasonably high
 - Approaching vertical
 - Tough to climb, in a way
 - Adjective for a canyon wall
 - Soak, as tea
 - Sharply slanted
 - Nearly vertical, as a cliff
 - Exhorbitant
 - Like some learning curves
 - Like a mountainside
 - Hardly economical
 - Exorbitantly priced
 - Descriptive of some bills or hills
 - Higher than you might have hoped
 - Inclined sharply, as a hill
 - Dear
 - Like some prices or slopes
 - Like many roller coaster drops
 - Excessive, as a price
 - Not worth it, perhaps
 - Having a sharp incline
 - Excessively high, price-wise
 - Uncomfortably pricey
 - Almost vertical, as a slope
 - Like either main face of El Capitan
 - Opposite of cheap
 - Like "black diamond" slopes
 - High-grade?
 - Use a teapot
 - Macerate
 - Tough to get up
 - Pretty expensive
 - Extremely high, price-wise
 - Brew via teapot
 - Difficult to climb
 - Exorbitant, as a price
 - Like tough hills to climb
 - Sky high, as prices
 - Prohibitively priced
 - Verb whose middle letters aptly sound like "tea"
 - Likely to take a bite out of one's wallet
 - Like the sides of a 49-Across
 - A lot to pay
 - Like a double black diamond trail
 - Allow to soak, as tea
 - Excessively expensive
 - Like some ski slopes and prices
 - Nearly vertical, as a slope
 - Like some cliffs and costs
 - Like some difficult hikes
 - Verb on a tea packet
 - Like a black diamond slope
 - Like some hills and prices
 - Like high prices
 - Rhyme and antonym of "cheap"
 - Pricing word that rhymes with its opposite
 - Like some roller coaster drops
 - More than one would hope to pay
 - So inclined?
 - Up a lot?
 - Soak, in a way
 - Difficult to climb, in a way
 - Prepare, as an infusion
 - Like a challenging climb
 - Soak, like a tea bag
 - Getting a high grade?
 - Spendy
 - Like San Francisco's Lombard Street
 - Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously
 - Like some black diamond runs
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - May 15, 2025
 - LA Times - April 27, 2025
 - New York Times - March 26, 2025
 - New York Times - January 21, 2025
 - LA Times - January 19, 2025
 - New York Times - November 02, 2024
 - USA Today - September 05, 2024
 - New York Times - August 10, 2024
 - USA Today - May 13, 2024
 - New York Times - April 14, 2024
 - LA Times - March 05, 2024
 - LA Times - December 30, 2023
 - New York Times - October 27, 2023
 - LA Times - September 06, 2023
 - USA Today - August 11, 2023
 - New York Times - April 14, 2023
 - New York Times - January 22, 2023
 - LA Times - October 31, 2022
 - USA Today - September 15, 2022
 - LA Times - September 10, 2022
 
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