The Clue
Muddles (6 letter answer)
The Answer
MESSES
Tags
Notes
The answer MESSES is uncommon, appearing about once every 575 puzzles.
Related Clues
Imbroglios
Jumbles
Pickles
Pigpens
Predicaments
Tinkers (with)
___ around (loafs)
Bungles, with "up"
Camp meals
Complicated situations
Fools around (with)
Meals in a hall
Military meals
Slobs' creations
___ up (botches)
___ up (bungles)
Big jobs for a maid
Meals on Big Mo
Teens' rooms, typically
Definition
MESS as a noun:
1. (mess, messiness, muss, mussiness) = a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
2. (fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish) = informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
3. soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
4. a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
5. (mess, mess hall) = a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
6. (batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew) = (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
MESS as a verb:
1. eat in a mess hall
2. (mess, mess up) = make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"