The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BENT , but the solution may also be LYING which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Not straight crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BENT | 19 % | 4 |
| ATILT | 12 % | 5 |
| AWRY | 11 % | 4 |
| WRY | 7 % | 3 |
| ASKEW | 7 % | 5 |
| ALOP | 5 % | 4 |
| ASLANT | 4 % | 6 |
| ARCED | 4 % | 5 |
| TWISTY | 3 % | 6 |
| WAVY | 3 % | 4 |
| OVERICE | 3 % | 7 |
| SLY | 2 % | 3 |
| GAY | 2 % | 3 |
| LYING | 2 % | 5 |
| CURLY | 2 % | 5 |
| LOPSIDED | 2 % | 8 |
| SKEWED | 2 % | 6 |
| AGEE | 2 % | 4 |
| ANGLED | 1 % | 6 |
| TILTED | 1 % | 6 |
| BLENDED | 1 % | 7 |
| CROOKED | 1 % | 7 |
| SNAKING | 1 % | 7 |
| HOMO | 1 % | 4 |
| ATANANGLE | 1 % | 9 |
| CURVY | 1 % | 5 |
| DECEPTIVE | 1 % | 9 |
| DISHONEST | 1 % | 9 |
Why may BENT be the right solution?
"BENT" is the right solution because it is a synonym for "not straight." In this context, "bent" means curved or not in a straight line.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Not straight
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- crooked
- curved
- wavy
- indented
- undulating
- waved
- fluctuate
- wave
- ripple
- winding
- rippling
- swirled
Crossword Answer definitions
BENT verb- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To become curved.
- To cause to change direction.
- To change direction.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (usually with "down") To stoop.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To swing the body when rowing.
- An inclination or talent.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
- Corrupt, dishonest
- Homosexual.
- Determined or insistent.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- Inaccurately aimed
- Suffering from the bends
- High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result BENT
More clues leading to the result ATILT
- Inclined
- Ready to joust
- Like Pisa's tower
- Listing
- Leaning
- With lance in hand
- Lopsided
- Armed with a lance
- On a slant
- Not true, in a way
More clues leading to the result AWRY
- Askew
- Haywire
- Out of kilter
- Twisted
- Crooked
- Off a bit
- Wrong
- Not according to plan, in a bad way
- Out of whack
- Off
More clues leading to the result WRY
- Distorted
- Like some humor
- Dryly humorous
- Tongue-in-cheek
- Sardonic
- Satiric
- Twisted
- Bent or ironic
- Ironically funny
- Twist out of shape
More clues leading to the result ASKEW
- Off-center
- Distorted
- Not straight
- Not symmetrical
- Lopsided
- Off plumb
- Tilted
- Out of line
- Out of kilter
- Off balance
More clues leading to the result ALOP
- Crooked
- Leaning
- Listing
- Tilting
- Tilted
- Quaintly crooked
- Cockeyed
- Catawampus
- Out of balance
- Like basset hounds' ears
More clues leading to the result ASLANT
- Tilted
- Listing
- At an angle
- Like those with poor grades?
- Not on the level
- Obliquely
- Not straight
- Leaning
- Having some inclination
- Inclined
More clues leading to the result ARCED
- Bowed
- Curved
- Slow-pitched a softball
- Followed the rainbow?
- Threw a curve
- Jumped between electrodes
- Discharged with sparks
- Like a flight path
- Made an electrical bridge
- Like a lob
More clues leading to the result TWISTY
- Not straight
- Helical
- Like a good whodunit's plot
- Labyrinthine
- Like maze paths
- Serpentine
- Winding
- Winding, as a road
- Full of surprises, as a plot
- Like slalom courses
More clues leading to the result WAVY
- Undulating
- Undulant
- Like a perm
- Like scallop shells' edges
- Like some permanents
- Unsteady, as a tone
- Like permed hair
- Rough, as the sea
- Full of ripples
- Sinuous
More clues leading to the result OVERICE
- Not neat
- Not served neat, as a drink
- How shrimp cocktail may be served
- Not straight up
- On the rocks
- Not straight
- Chill excessively.
- Drink order
- Not neat?
- Chilled
More clues leading to the result SLY
- Crafty
- Clever like Stallone?
- Cunning
- Like a fox
- Underhanded
- Clever like a fox
- Leader of the Family Stone
- Sneaky
- Stallone sobriquet
- Stallone, in the tabloids
More clues leading to the result GAY
- Enola ___
- Like the 1890s
- Author Talese
- Nineties descriptor
- Flaming, say
- Kind of bar
- Man's man?
- Writer Talese
- 1890s description
- Lively
More clues leading to the result LYING
- Concocting a tale
- Recumbent
- Telling fibs
- With 58-Across, Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, per a 2003 Al Franken book title
- Mendacity
- Untruthful
- Full of it
- Mendacious
- Perjury
- Challenging the Polygraph
More clues leading to the result CURLY
- Hair on a humid day
- Jerome Howard
- One of a slapstick comedy trio
- Not straight
- Palance's Oscar-winning role in "City Slickers"
- One of Moe's victims
- Spiral-shaped __ fries
- Moe's brother
- Brother of 57 Down
- A Stooge
More clues leading to the result LOPSIDED
- Unevenly balanced
- Awry
- Crooked
- Badly balanced
- Asymmetric
- Unsymmetrical
- Uneven
- Like an amateurish cake
- Out of balance
- Not symmetrical.
More clues leading to the result SKEWED
- Asymmetrical
- Oblique
- Distorted
- Not on the level
- Warped
- Not unbiased
- Depicted unfairly
- Not fair
- Like distorted data
- Shaped obliquely.
More clues leading to the result AGEE
- "A Death in the Family" author
- "A Death in the Family" novelist
- "Night of the Hunter" screenwriter
- "The African Queen" scriptwriter
- "The African Queen" scriptwriter James
- "The Morning Watch" novelist
- 1957 Pulitzer-winner James
- Author of "Hoop Dreams"
- Author of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
- Baseball great
More clues leading to the result ANGLED
- Worked with a line
- Slanted
- Used a hook and line
- Fished
- Went fishing
- Biased
- Caught porgy and bass
- Not straight
- On a bias
- Did some fishing
More clues leading to the result TILTED
- Engaged in a joust
- On a slant
- Prepared a pitcher for pouring
- Askew
- Leaning to the side
- Not on the level
- Leaning
- Out of vertical
- Froze the pinball machine
- At an angle
More clues leading to the result BLENDED
- Not straight
- Mixed
- Like some whiskey
- Thoroughly mixed
- Combined.
- Prepared, as a pipe mixture.
- Mingled
- Intermingled
- Like some Scotch
- Like some families
More clues leading to the result CROOKED
More clues leading to the result SNAKING
- Winding, as a road
- Plumber's work, at times
- Drano alternative?
- Hauling a log by a chain.
- Weaving in and out
- Not straight
- Not straight, in a way
- Dragging lengthwise
More clues leading to the result HOMO
- __ erectus
- Sexual opening?
- Ecce __
- ___ sapiens
- Not straight
- Our genus
- __ sapiens
- ___ erectus
- Man's genus
- Prefix meaning "same"
More clues leading to the result ATANANGLE
- Slanted
- Diagonally
- Not straight
- Obliquely
- Raked
- Listing
- Tilted
- Crooked
- Not true
- How parking lot lines are often painted
More clues leading to the result CURVY
- Shaped like an hourglass
- Sinuous
- Like mountain roads
- Like winding roads
- Having bendings without angles.
- Winding.
- Like Alpine roads
- Winding
- Not straight, as a street
- Full of twists