The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ASLANT , but the solution may also be SKEWED which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Oblique crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ASLANT | 33 % | 6 |
| SKEWED | 12 % | 6 |
| SLANTED | 9 % | 7 |
| BEVELED | 6 % | 7 |
| DIAGONAL | 6 % | 8 |
| BEVEL | 6 % | 5 |
| TILTED | 3 % | 6 |
| SLANTY | 3 % | 6 |
| SIDELONG | 3 % | 8 |
| SLANTWISE | 3 % | 9 |
| BIAS | 3 % | 4 |
| SLOPING | 3 % | 7 |
| SKEW | 3 % | 4 |
| AWRY | 3 % | 4 |
| SPLAYED | 3 % | 7 |
Why may SKEWED be the right solution?
"SKEWED" means slanting or not straight, which is synonymous with oblique.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Oblique
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sideways
- collateral
- indirect
- crabwise
- bias
- devious
- oblique case
- diagonal
- nonparallel
- catercorner
- kitty-corner
- cater-cornered
Crossword Answer definitions
ASLANT adjective- Slanting
- At a slant
- Diagonally over or across
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 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 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 SLANTED
- On an incline
- Favoring one side
- Not objective
- Biased
- Italicized
- Not on the level
- Not straight up
- Like some handwriting
- On an angle
- At a tilt
More clues leading to the result BEVELED
- Like many a mirror perimeter
- Like the edges of some mirrors
- Cut on a slant
- Sloping.
- Slanted
- Oblique
- With sloped cuts
- Cut at a slope
More clues leading to the result DIAGONAL
- Geometric line
- Shortcut, maybe
- On a slant
- Oblique
- Bishop's path
- Slanting
- Slash
- Northeast-to-southwest line
- Shortcut, at times
- TV measurement
More clues leading to the result BEVEL
- Angle other than right
- Carpenter's tool (hint: it doesn't start with L)
- Angle of some window panes
- Slanted surface
- Cut at an angle
- Cut obliquely
- Angular cut
- Angled edge, as on a plank
- Incline
- Incline or slant
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 SLANTY
More clues leading to the result SIDELONG
- Like some glances
- Roundabout
- Like indirect glances
- Oblique
- Obliquely.
- Indirect.
- Laterally
- Indirect
- Indirect, as a glance
More clues leading to the result SLANTWISE
More clues leading to the result BIAS
- Diagonal
- Diagonal cut
- It isn't fair
- It's not fair
- __-ply tire
- Slant
- Inclination
- Leaning
- CNN's "No ___. No Bull."
- Media Matters subject
More clues leading to the result SLOPING
More clues leading to the result SKEW
- Go astray
- Distort
- Manipulate, as data
- Spin, in a way
- Twist
- Move obliquely
- Distort, as data
- Get out of kilter
- Slant
- Depict unfairly
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