Crossword-Solution: EXCESS 6 letters, 111 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Excess n. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being
of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds
what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance;
extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
Excess n. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of
proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
Excess n. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds
another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the
excess of one over the other.

We have 111 clues for the answer “EXCESS”

Clue Answers
"Nothing succeeds like ___": Oscar Wilde 1 answer
EXCEEDING of proper amount or degree 1 answer
It may go to waste 1 answer
Like some baggage 1 answer
One shouldn't drink to this 1 answer
Surplus integral to this puzzle's theme answers 1 answer
Unneeded part 1 answer
What a gourmand eats to 1 answer
What sots drink to 1 answer
immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits 1 answer
overabundance or surplus 1 answer
overplus 1 answer
state or act of exceeding the permitted limits 1 answer
CRUEL act 2 answers
Immoderate amount 2 answers
More than due 2 answers
More than required 2 answers
OVERAGE 2 answers
Surplusage 2 answers
It's too much 3 answers
More than necessary 5 answers
More than needed 5 answers
overexertion 5 answers
supererogation 8 answers
Saturnalia 11 answers
Outer limits 11 answers
drunkenness 11 answers
incontinence 12 answers
exorbitance 14 answers
EXCESS body fat 15 answers
immoderation 15 answers
extremes 16 answers
BODY fat 16 answers
de trop 16 answers
profusion 17 answers
Leftover 18 answers
wastefulness 18 answers
backlog 19 answers
indiscipline 21 answers
Gluttony 21 answers
extravagance 22 answers
nimiety 22 answers
intemperance 23 answers
overstock 23 answers
overactivity 26 answers
Over-supply 28 answers
Superabundance 28 answers
tautological 29 answers
excrescent 30 answers
Remnant 30 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXCESS (5)

Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ’d Thir dread Commander: he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear’d Less then Arch Angel ruind, and th’ excess Of Glory obscur’d: As when the Sun new ris’n Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
One plan is, to make bets on their slaves, as to who can drink the most whisky without getting drunk; and in this way they succeed in getting whole multitudes to drink to excess.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit? The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety—their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of ours—and to have carried out their preparations with a well-nigh perfect unanimity.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Some varieties of wide paper for printers have a perforation 8.5 inches from the left margin that allows the excess on the right-hand side to be torn off when the print format is 80 columns or less wide.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Also, amid many opinions held in equal repute, I chose always the most moderate, as much for the reason that these are always the most convenient for practice, and probably the best (for all excess is generally vicious), as that, in the event of my falling into error, I might be at less distance from the truth than if, having chosen one of the extremes, it should turn out to be the other which I ought to have adopted.
A Discourse on Method René Descartes 1995

Quotes with EXCESS (3)

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
Aleister Crowley Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions
She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess of the people who had effected the raping to produce sufficient numbers of themselves who were sufficiently idle that they might begin to protest the raping of the environment, which was irretrievably lost to the raping by that point. And this would be the great soothing cathedral music, the stopping of the chainsaws amid the patter of acid rain, that all good citizens w…
Padgett Powell Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
Never surrender to you're passions. Dream and live to excess.
Truth Devour Unrequited
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 42 times in crossword archives (1987–2025).