Answer: UGLY
UGLY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 135 times.
Referring Clues:
- Nasty
 - Hideous
 - Like many Halloween masks
 - 94-Across's opposite
 - Unsightly
 - Unappealing
 - Like a gargoyle
 - Like a storied duckling
 - Unfair?
 - Like a 29-Down
 - Beyond homely
 - "This is going to get ___"
 - Hostile
 - Hard on the eyes
 - Hard to watch
 - Like gargoyles
 - Like Cinderella's stepsisters
 - Optically offensive
 - Far from fetching
 - Not at all beautiful
 - Disagreeable
 - Like the fabled duckling
 - Hardly handsome
 - Gorgonian
 - Hard to look at
 - Quarrelsome
 - Like Hans Christian Andersen's duckling
 - "The ___ American"
 - Really hard on the eyes
 - Very unattractive
 - Objectionable in appearance
 - Very unpleasant
 - Like some crowds
 - Awful, weatherwise
 - Like a hag
 - Like the stepsisters in "Cinderella"
 - Like a crone
 - "The ___ Duckling"
 - Homely
 - "Coyote ___" (2000 Piper Perabo film)
 - Difficult to watch
 - Nasty, as a mood
 - Nasty, as a fight
 - Mean, as some crowds
 - Like a smear campaign
 - Hostile, as a crowd
 - Mean, as a crowd
 - Far from fair
 - Like a clock-stopping face
 - Like a fabled duckling
 - Repulsive
 - Like the Emmy-winning Betty
 - Unpleasant to view
 - "The ___ American" (Brando film)
 - Aesthetically offensive
 - "The ___ Duckling "(Andersen story)
 - Definitely not pretty
 - Like a rout, for the losing team
 - Uncivil
 - Not easy on the eyes
 - Like an extremely unpleasant situation
 - Grotesque
 - Not pretty
 - Unattractive
 - Like the storied duckling
 - Like the losing team's play in a bad loss
 - Like a 16-Across
 - Like a storybook duckling
 - "Yo mama's so ___, her face is closed on weekends"
 - Extremely unattractive
 - In pre-swan mode
 - Pre-swan
 - Unattractive, and then some
 - Preswan
 - The ____ (1997 horror film)
 - Now this could get ___!
 - Likely to break out into fighting
 - "The ___ Duckling" (fairy tale)
 - Like an eyesore
 - Deficient in beauty
 - Like some moods
 - Hardly fair?
 - Far from fetching, as a fabled duckling
 - Frightful
 - Threatening,as weather
 - Threatening, as weather
 - "This could get ___"
 - Like Quasimodo
 - Like a vulture, compared to a swan
 - Sea, in a gale
 - Unbecoming
 - Like the Wicked Witch of the West
 - Unlovely
 - "___ Betty"
 - Far from handsome
 - Hardly fair
 - Unaesthetic
 - Like Andersen's duckling
 - Unpretty
 - Like Hans Christian Andersen's "Duckling"
 - Far from beautiful
 - Like Hans' duckling
 - Nothing to look at
 - Vicious, as a fight
 - TV's "___ Betty"
 - Quite unattractive
 - Far from attractive
 - Quarrelsome, as a mood
 - Ill-favored
 - Unpleasant
 - Like Christmas sweaters, stereotypically
 - "Things might get ___"
 - Andersen title adjective
 - Like Betty Suarez
 - Its letters aptly appear in "unsightly"
 - Like a fairy tale duckling
 - Like a witch, stereotypically
 - Highly quarrelsome
 - Like a typical Halloween mask
 - Like a nasty mood
 - Meanspirited
 - Way some situations turn
 - Pretty ___ (oxymoron)
 - Word before "duckling" or "cry"
 - Like some Christmas sweaters
 - "Things might get ___ ..."
 - "The ___ Cry" (Danielle Henderson memoir)
 - Turn ___ (become unpleasant)
 - Like some holiday sweaters
 - Like eyesores
 - Not much to look at
 - Reprehensible
 - Like many Christmas sweaters
 - Like a literary duckling
 - Like some truths or sweaters
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
 - USA Today - August 12, 2025
 - USA Today - July 01, 2025
 - LA Times - January 01, 2025
 - LA Times - December 27, 2024
 - New York Times - November 28, 2024
 - New York Times - September 27, 2024
 - New York Times - July 04, 2024
 - LA Times - June 30, 2024
 - New York Times - February 28, 2024
 - LA Times - September 23, 2023
 - LA Times - August 30, 2023
 - LA Times - November 27, 2022
 - USA Today - July 20, 2022
 - USA Today - June 24, 2022
 - New York Times - May 23, 2022
 - USA Today - March 18, 2022
 - USA Today - February 24, 2022
 - New York Times - December 20, 2021
 - USA Today - November 24, 2021
 
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