Crossword-Solution: WIRY 4 letters, 107 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Wiry	a.	Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.
Wiry	a.	Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.

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WIRY	anagram	WRIY

We have 107 clues for the answer “WIRY”

Clue	Answers
Angular in physique	1 answer
Athletically lean	1 answer
Built like a gymnast	1 answer
Coarse and stiff, as hair	1 answer
In fighting form	1 answer
Lean and flexible	1 answer
Lean and mean, perhaps	1 answer
Lean and powerful	1 answer
Lean and sinewy	1 answer
Lean and strong	1 answer
Lean and vigorous	1 answer
Lean but muscular	1 answer
Lean, as a frame	1 answer
Lean, strong and flexible	1 answer
Lean, tough and strong	1 answer
Lean, tough, and sinewy	1 answer
Like Ichabod Crane	1 answer
Like Tiger Woods' physique	1 answer
Like a poodle's coat	1 answer
Like a schnauzer's coat	1 answer
Like a schnauzer's hair	1 answer
Like a terrier's coat	1 answer
Like a terrier's outer coat	1 answer
Like an Airedale Coat	1 answer
Like an Airedale's coat	1 answer
Like an Irish Terrier's outer coat	1 answer
Like an Irish wolfhound's coat	1 answer
Like distance runners, stereotypically	1 answer
Like gymnasts' bodies	1 answer
Like many a distance runner	1 answer
Like many a marathon runner	1 answer
Like poodle hair	1 answer
Like shortstops before Ripken	1 answer
Like some humour the writer's penned, surprisingly strong?	1 answer
Like some terriers' coats	1 answer
Like the coats of many terriers	1 answer
Not husky, but strong.	1 answer
Sinewy and lean	1 answer
Slim and muscular	1 answer
Slim but surprisingly strong	1 answer
Slim yet strong	1 answer
Small and sinewy	1 answer
Strong and sinewy	1 answer
Strong, though slim	1 answer
Thin and muscular	1 answer
Thin and strong	1 answer
Thin and tough	1 answer
Thin but strong	1 answer
Thin but tough.	1 answer
Thin, yet tough	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TRAEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WIRY (5)

The ape was staggered, and what with the mortal wound in his side had almost collapsed, when, with one mighty effort he rallied for an instant—just long enough to enable him to wrest his arm free from Tarzan’s grasp and close in a terrific clinch with his wiry opponent.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

The valiant Chinaman sought the ashen throat of his antagonist, but his wiry, sinewy muscles were as reeds beneath the force of that inhuman power that opposed them.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

And how is _la belle dame?_ Always handsome! always healthy! always contented!” She took Edna’s hand between her strong wiry fingers, holding it loosely without warmth, and executing a sort of double theme upon the back and palm.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994

They were covered with a growth of wiry grass, strangely discolored in places by enormous stains of orange yellow.

McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Covey was not a large man; he was only about five feet ten inches in height, I should think; short necked, round shoulders; of quick and wiry motion, of thin and wolfish visage; with a pair of small, greenish-gray eyes, set well back under a forehead without dignity, and constantly in motion, and floating his passions, rather than his thoughts, in sight, but denying them utterance in words.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Quotes with WIRY (3)

The tavern keeper, a wiry man with a sharp-nosed face, round, prominent ears and a receding hairline that combined to give him a rodentlike look, glanced at him, absentmindedly wiping a tankard with a grubby cloth. Will raised an eyebrow as he looked at it. He'd be willing to bet the cloth was transferring more dirt to the tankard then it was removing. "Drink?" the tavern keeper asked. He set the tankard down on the bar, as if in preparation for filling it with whatever the s…

John Flanagan Halt's Peril

Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent, and neurotic. Sex scares her. This is because she either came from a nunnery or was raped as a child. Or both. Somehow this inspired her to become a mercenary and she is very good at her job. You can rely on her absolutely in a fight. She can usually kill two people at once while guarding your back in between. The rest of the time, she will irritate you with lots of punctiliou…

Diana Wynne Jones The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Dipping his hand between the denim he’d parted, Logan thought he would feel cotton, but as his fingers brushed over wiry hair, he groaned out loud. “Commando? You came to see me fucking commando?

Ella Frank Try

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 162 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).