The Clue
Touched (3 letter answer)
The Answer
MAD
Tags
Notes
The answer MAD is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.
Related Clues
Cracked
Daft
Deranged
Frantic
Frenzied
Harebrained
___ Hatter
Hopping ___
Insane
Irate
Loony
Steamed
Ticked
Wacko
On the warpath
Wild
Cap or house
Foaming at the mouth
Kind of money
Like Lear
Nuts or crackers
Worked up
Certifiable, so to speak
Epithet for Anthony Wayne
George III descriptor
Kind of money or Hatter
Like Carroll's Hatter
Like the Chaillot woman
Like some love
Like a wet hen
Non compos mentis
Off one's rocker
Out of one's mind
Word for Alice's hatter
Alfred E. Neuman's magazine
Humor magazine since 1952
Like Ophelia, in Act IV
Like a Wonderland tea party
___ Max, Mel Gibson role
"Spy vs. Spy" magazine
"Usual gang of idiots" magazine
"___ Wednesday," Harold Lloyd film
"What, me worry?" magazine
William Gaines founded it in 1953
Definition
MAD as an adjective:
1. (huffy, mad, sore) = roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
2. (brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged) = affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
3. (delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained) = marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
4. (harebrained, insane, mad) = very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"