Obscure - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 16/10/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Obscure.

8 letter answer(s) to obscure

ABSTRUSE
  1. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
ESOTERIC
  1. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"

9 letter answer(s) to obscure

AMBIGUOUS
  1. having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
  2. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"
  3. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"

5 letter answer(s) to obscure

BEDIM
  1. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
  2. make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured"
BEFOG
  1. make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
CLOUD
  1. a cause of worry or gloom or trouble; "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French"
  2. a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"
  3. a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
  4. any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
  5. billow up in the form of a cloud; "The smoke clouded above the houses"
  6. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
  7. make gloomy or depressed; "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
  8. make less clear; "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
  9. make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
  10. make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
  11. make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weathe

7 letter answer(s) to obscure

BLOTOUT
ECLIPSE
  1. be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"
  2. cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"
  3. one celestial body obscures another
  4. Overshadowed, outdone

4 letter answer(s) to obscure

DARK
  1. (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
  2. absence of light or illumination
  3. absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
  4. an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
  5. an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
  6. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
  7. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  8. devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
  9. having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned
HIDE
  1. be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety; "Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding"; "She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana"
  2. body covering of a living animal
  3. cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"
  4. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
  5. prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"
  6. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
VEIL
  1. a garment that covers the head and face
  2. a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
  3. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
  4. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
  5. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
  6. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

6 letter answer(s) to obscure

DARKEN
  1. become dark or darker; "The sky darkened"
  2. make dark or darker; "darken a room"
  3. tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"

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Abstruse Euro-sceptic cup running over
Acclaimed fellow's gone outside large university, uncertain
After dusk
Almost hit daughter coming out of one's shower?
Alternative to white, as
Animal skin
Arcane
Arcane - coteries
Arcane secret I spread around Ohio
Astronomical phenomenon in bits of film shown in middle of week
Be hard to spot
Bit of bridal attire
Bit of bridal wear
Bits of film presented in middle of week showing astronomical phenomenon
Block of drugs including speed seized at the start
Block out tabs containing content of YouTube
Blur
Bridal accessory
Bridal face covering
Bridal wear
Bride hider
Bride's headpiece
Busts are terribly hard to grasp
Camouflage
Camouflaged shelter from which to observe wildlife
Celestial event
Celestial phenomenon
Chocolate choice
Cirrus or cumulus
Conceal
Conceal British identity somewhat
Conceal literary alter ego in broadcast
Conceal very ugly lie
Confuse
Cover
Cover English prunes with cellophane, finally
Cover up
Cover up 1ac broadcast
Cover, conceal
Cover-up at a high level?
Cover-up at the highest l
Cover-up of astronomical
Covered structure from which to observe birds
Covering for head and face
Covering for the face
Cow cover
Creep dropping behind student brainbox?
Cumulus, for example
Cuts in central Greece producing blackout
Darkening
Daughter beside boat in shadow
Deep
Delight, as it were, as rescue vessel breaks through earth
Departs with ship full of animals that’s not light
Died on boat? That's not fair
Difficult to get sailor with trick on street
Difficult to understand
Difficult to understand cruel treatment imprisoning three leaders of strike
Dim, cold and thundering
Disguise
Do not disclose some foolish idea
Don't reveal skin
Don't show skin
Draw attention from cuts in English energy
Draw attention from cuts in European energy
Dunkirk veterans turn up underneath cloud
Earth footage beginning to explain rare event
Edna broke every so often: not fair!
Eg, cumulus
Enroll in a witness prote
European film review read, dealing with human suffering
Face covering
Fancy stereo discs occasionally used for the select few
Far from popular CEO tries to mingle
Father is entertained by Messi breaking deadlock
Flood’s ending with Noah’s vessel in gloom
For initiates only
Formal wear for men in clubs?
Front of deserted vessel is gloomy
Fur
Get misty winter period heading west? Turn the other way
Gloomy
Gloomy - black - hidden
Gloomy day on rescue vessel
Grow less light
Harbor
Hard to fathom good man getting right into obloquy
Hard to get muscles? Attempt endless exercise
Hard to understand
Hard to understand when BBC drama axes the first three characters
Heavenly phenomenon
Hide
Hide completely or partially
Hide prunes inside empty envelope
Hurry to wrap daughter in coat
Incomprehensible
Indecipherable
Inscrutable Tories assembled in the City
Intelligible only to the initiated
It conceals relocation of energy in base
It may be lifted at a wed
It's not easy to grasp broken toe - cries out bandaging it
Keep secret Mr Nasty told
Keep secret; skin
Keep under wraps
Kind of computing using r
King with silver engaged in risks in unenlightened times
Knight getting silver, engaged in challenges in times long ago
Leather cloak
Leather, essentially
Leave in the shade
Lie low
Like some turkey meat
Live game coming up, avoiding large cloud
Lunar or solar phenomenon
Lurk
Make less clear
Make less light
Make less transparent
Make milky coffee, initially tasteless
Make obscure
Make unclear
Mask
Material you might look t
Maugham's "The Painted __
Missing light vessel to east of delta
Monstrously stab king, and profit? It's hard to fathom
Mysterious
Mysterious drug boy accepts drunk
Mysterious erotic frolicking on the outskirts of Eccles
Mysterious secretion giving off nitrogen is unstable
Night and day shelter
Noirish
Not white, as meat
Obfuscate
Obscure bits of film stored in tablets
Obscure boozer between centre of Cleveleys and Morecambe?
Obscure Byzantine coteries
Obscure completely
Obscure energy cuts end in catastrophe
Obscure English drunkard at Morecambe?
Obscure papers ambassador's brought round
Obscure papers concealed by ambassador
Of a sombre colour
One’s following plot that’s obscure
Only understandable by an enlightened inner circle
Open to interpretation
Opposite of clarify
Outdo
Outshine
Overshadow
Overshadow cuts within Europe's borders
Overshadow telecoms provider claiming high speeds
Palm, say
Pelt
Pelt Henry with fish
Plant bug
Prop for Salome
Rain source
Recalled some lack radiance – in this?
Recondite
Remove light from chest in study
Remove light from some proscribed images
Said to be a conflicted character's mask
Screen
Secret
Secret coteries disbanded
Secret coteries in new order
Secret drinker comes to earth in Morecambe?
Secret drinker last to rise in Morecambe?
Secret or inner, primarily, put another way
Secret; taught to few
Secretive celebrity's large body not evident to viewers
See about wrapping box and put in shade
See another way to protect cutting - put in the shade
See trio playing Chopin's prelude in secret
Seek's opposite
Shade
Show up
Shroud
Shrouded in mystery
Sign of secrecy
Sinister affair that's hypothetical
Sinister politician leaves Ross in Cornwall
Sinister vessel pursuing daughter
Skin
Skin - cover
Skin somewhat ticklish, I declare
Solar event in these clips examined
Solar phenomenon
Stash away
Stay in the closet, say
Sun block?
Surpass cuts in economy initially repeated
Surprise party command
Swarthy
Sweep under the rug
Symbol of a lingering sca
Take away light chest stored in study
Take cover
Tanned skin
Tanning need
Thanksgiving meat request
This conceals sound from valley
Tower above
Unclear one way or the other
Understood by few
Unilluminated vessel on Dee
Unlit
Very cloudy days leading to ship being created by Noah
Very inaccurate story about religious coverage
Way out there
Wedding wear
What a wandering poet thought lacking company is obscure
Where film will end up, one way or another
Whitewash
With little light
With little or no light
Yashmak, for example

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