If you’ve reached “Obscure” in your solving session, these answers were chosen from crosswords where this clue type led to successful puzzle completions using the same phrasing.
Suggested Answers:
- DIM
- VAGUE
- HIDE
- CLOUD
- VEIL
- ABSTRUSE
- BLUR
- ESOTERIC
- UNCLEAR
- OPAQUE
- DARKEN
- MISTY
- SHADOWY
- UNKNOWN
- RECONDITE
- CLOUDY
- SHROUD
- ECLIPSE
- BEFOG
- NONAME
Synonyms and Definitions
DIM
- Synonyms: black, bleak, blind, blur, dense, dimmed, dip, dull, dumb, faint, obtuse, shadowy, slow, slur, subdued, vague, wispy
VAGUE
- Synonyms: dim, undefined
HIDE
- Synonyms: blot out, conceal, cover, enshroud, fell, hide out, obliterate, pelt, shroud, skin, veil
CLOUD
- Synonyms: becloud, befog, corrupt, dapple, defile, fog, haze over, mist, mottle, obnubilate, overcast, sully, swarm, taint
VEIL
- Synonyms: caul, embryonic membrane, head covering, hide, humeral veil, velum
ABSTRUSE
- Synonyms: deep, recondite
BLUR
- Synonyms: blear, confuse, film over, fuzz, glaze over, smear, smudge, smutch
UNCLEAR
- Synonyms: ill-defined, indecipherable, undecipherable, unreadable
OPAQUE
- Synonyms: unintelligible
MISTY
- Synonyms: brumous, foggy, hazy
SHADOWY
- Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous, wraithlike
UNKNOWN
- Synonyms: alien, nameless, strange, stranger, terra incognita, unidentified, unknown quantity, unknown region, unnamed, unsung
RECONDITE
- Synonyms: abstruse
CLOUDY
- Synonyms: mirky, muddy, murky, nebulose, nebulous, turbid
SHROUD
- Synonyms: cerement, mainsheet, pall, sheet, tack, weather sheet, winding-clothes, winding-sheet
ECLIPSE
- Synonyms: dominate, occult, occultation, overshadow
BEFOG
- Synonyms: cloud
- Definition: Reduce visibility or clarity
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- DIM also appears as an answer in Gloomy crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters.
- BEFOG also appears as an answer in Confuse crossword clue 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 letters.