Like a 45-degree angle
The crossword clue "Like a 45-degree angle" is answered by ACUTE, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ACUTE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACUTE answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ACUTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ACUTE, most used first.
- Sharp - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Less than 90 degrees - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Keen - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some angles - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Less than right - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Severe - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Critical - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharp, as eyesight - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Not obtuse - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Penetrating - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Type of angle - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Crucial - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
- Kind of angle - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Opposite of obtuse - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some accents - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Keenly perceptive - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Sharp, as pain - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Biting - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Not chronic - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Not quite right? - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Perceptive - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Sharp as a tack - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Very sharp - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Sharp, as vision - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Extreme, as pain - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Angle type - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Less than 90° - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Sharp-witted - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Poignant. - used 7 times, most recently in 1979
- Shrewd - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Finely honed - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Grave - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Sharp or severe - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Very perceptive - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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- Like a lot - ADORE, used 72 times
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