Crossword-Solution: MESSY 5 letters, 268 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word		Anagrams
MESSY	anagram	SYMES

We have 268 clues for the answer “MESSY”

Clue	Answers
"Ooh, this could get ___"	1 answer
All disheveled	1 answer
Chaotic and cluttered, like a teen's room	1 answer
Badly organized	1 answer
Befitting a slob	1 answer
Certainly not tidy	1 answer
Chaotic, as a situation	1 answer
Cluttered up	1 answer
Complicated and unpleasant	1 answer
Complicated, as a breakup	1 answer
Complicated, as a divorce	1 answer
Complicated, as a relationship	1 answer
Difficult to reconcile	1 answer
Difficult to resolve	1 answer
Difficult to sort out	1 answer
Difficult to straighten out	1 answer
Disorderly or untidy	1 answer
Distasteful to Felix, e.g.	1 answer
Distasteful to a neat freak	1 answer
Drama-heavy	1 answer
Embarrassing, as a situation	1 answer
Entirely untidy	1 answer
Far from orderly	1 answer
Far from shipshape	1 answer
Far from tidy	1 answer
Far from well kept	1 answer
Fraught with complications	1 answer
Full of drama	1 answer
Full of shit, say	1 answer
Hard to clean up	1 answer
Hard to resolve	1 answer
Hard to settle	1 answer
Hard to sort out	1 answer
Hardly neat	1 answer
Hardly tidy	1 answer
Having entanglements	1 answer
Having lots of loose ends	1 answer
Highly inconvenient	1 answer
In a shambles	1 answer
In need of a good clean	1 answer
In need of cleanup	1 answer
In need of grooming	1 answer
In need of neatening	1 answer
In need of picking up	1 answer
In need of tidying	1 answer
In need of tidying up	1 answer
Like Buffalo wings and barbecued ribs	1 answer
Like Buffalo wings, eating-wise	1 answer
Like Junior's room, perhaps	1 answer
Like Madison, Oscar	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTAEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble MESSY 5-letter words that start with M 5-letter words that end in Y 5-letter words containing ES 5-letter words containing SY 5-letter words with M and E

Sentences with MESSY (5)

Fortunately, as we have mentioned, one of his hands was messy with it, and he blew some on each of them, with the most superb results.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Also `mess-loss', `messy-dos', `mess-dog', `mess-dross', `mush-dos', and various combinations thereof.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

This is an awfully messy letter, but I'm dashing it off in three minutes in order to catch you before you definitely engage that pleasant, inefficient middle-aged person without a chin.

Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995

You make it yourself, do you not?) My man? Oh, they killed the poor devil; for if there was one there was ten; So after I'd bombed 'em sufficient I went down at the head of my men, And four tried to sneak from a bunk-hole, but we cornered the rotters all right; I'd rather not go into details, 'twas messy that bit of the fight.

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man Robert W. Service 1995

And what beats me is why he went off to live among them messy trees in the Weald, when he might ha’ stayed here and looked all about him.

Rewards and Fairies Rudyard Kipling 1996

Quotes with MESSY (3)

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

Patrick Ness More Than This

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

Alan Moore Watchmen

So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" true?". "You can't be rude to everyone who talks to me." Alec made a wide, sweeping gesture. "And why not? Cramping your style, am I? I mean, maybe you were hoping to flirt with werewolf boy here. He's pretty attractive, if you like the messy-haired, broad-shouldered, chiseled-good-looks type.""Hey, now," said Jordan mildly. Magnus put his head in his hands. into?""Mermaids," said Magnus into his fingers. "They always smell li…

Cassandra Clare City of Fallen Angels

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 445 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).