The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ANNEAL which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2020.
Temper crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ANNEAL | 29 % | 6 |
| MOOD | 15 % | 4 |
| DANDER | 14 % | 6 |
| IRE | 13 % | 3 |
| IRISH | 5 % | 5 |
| INURE | 5 % | 5 |
| ALLAY | 4 % | 5 |
| SPIRIT | 2 % | 6 |
| CHOLER | 2 % | 6 |
| ANGER | 1 % | 5 |
| ASSUAGE | 1 % | 7 |
| BILE | 1 % | 4 |
| MITIGATE | 1 % | 8 |
| TONE | 1 % | 4 |
| SOFTEN | 1 % | 6 |
| SHORTFUSE | 1 % | 9 |
| HUFF | 1 % | 4 |
| MODERATE | 1 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Temper
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mood
- moderate
- harden
- toughness
- humor
- humour
- snappishness
- pique
- chasten
- pettishness
- irritability
- surliness
Crossword Answer definitions
ANNEAL noun- An act of annealing.
- To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
- To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
- To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
- To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
- To strengthen or harden.
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 ANNEAL
- Strengthen by heating
- Strengthen
- Heat-treat
- Heat and then cool
- Temper
- Temper, as metal
- Toughen, as glass
- Toughen by heating, as glass
- Treat with heat to toughen
- Strengthen, as glass
More clues leading to the result MOOD
- Kind of ring
- Humor
- State of mind
- "___ Indigo"
- Gallup poll picture
- It might be set before getting it on
- "__ Indigo"
- Frame of mind
- Disposition
- Ring color changer?
More clues leading to the result DANDER
- Temper
- If one's angry, it's up
- Anger
- Common allergen
- Get one's ___ up: get angry
- Anger, informally
- It's up when you're upset
- Wrath
- Steam, so to speak
- It's up when you're angry
More clues leading to the result IRE
More clues leading to the result IRISH
- From the old sod
- Kind of coffee or whiskey
- Like Abie's Rose
- Mid-March celebrants
- Notre Dame's Fighting __
- From the Emerald Isle
- From Tralee
- Hibernian
- Kind of stew
- Like many Ellis Island arrivals
More clues leading to the result INURE
- Accustom to hardship
- Condition
- Accustom
- Habituate
- Harden
- Toughen up
- Toughen
- Acclimate
- Get used to
- Make accustomed
More clues leading to the result ALLAY
- Ease, as one's fears
- Set to rest
- Put to rest
- Relieve
- Soothe
- Calm, as fears
- Ease, as anxieties
- Soften
- Mollify
- Make quiet
More clues leading to the result SPIRIT
- Seance attendee, perhaps
- Rapper who doesn't say anything
- Genie or poltergeist
- Pluck
- Team morale
- Team's attribute
- Apparition
- Ghost
- Soul
- Cheerleader's asset
More clues leading to the result CHOLER
More clues leading to the result ANGER
- Fit of temper
- Rage
- Breathe fire into
- Indignation
- Conniption cause
- Get one's dander up
- Provoke
- Tee off
- Possibly racist Depp movie Part II
- Fury
More clues leading to the result ASSUAGE
More clues leading to the result BILE
- Digestive juice
- Liver product
- Rotten temper
- Liver secretion
- Digestive fluid
- Ill will
- Pure spite
- Irascibility
- Peevishness
- Ill temper
More clues leading to the result MITIGATE
More clues leading to the result TONE
- Answering-machine sound
- Musician's concern
- Sound quality
- The sound of music
- Vocal quality
- Strad feature
- Two-__ (like some cars)
- Muscle quality
- Pitch
- Musical sound
More clues leading to the result SOFTEN
- Grow less adamant
- Relent
- Melt
- Tone down
- Cushion
- Use saddle soap on, say
- Mellow
- Cushion, as a blow
- Alleviate
- Reduce the mineral content of, as water
More clues leading to the result SHORTFUSE
- Argument activator
- Testiness
- Anger management no-no
- Quick temper
- Hot-temper symbol
- Mark of a hothead
- Temper
More clues leading to the result HUFF
- Fit of pique
- Piqued state
- Snit
- Bit of a fit
- Tizzy
- Angry mood
- Sulking mood
- Part of the wolf's threat
- Blow hard
- Peeved mood