Mental vagueness

The answer

HAZE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HAZE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HAZE

Every other clue in this collection answered by HAZE, most used first.

• Visibility problem - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Skyline obscurer - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Visibility reducer - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Visibility lessener - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Visibility hindrance - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Mist - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Smog - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Thin fog - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Confused state - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Confusion - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Fog - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Smog, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Purple ___" (Jimi Hendrix song) - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Visibility obstacle - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Jimi Hendrix's "Purple ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Mental fog - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Mental flash - IDEA, used 51 times
• Mental faculties - WITS, used 20 times
• Mental spark - IDEA, used 20 times
• Mental acuity - WITS, used 17 times
• Mental germ - IDEA, used 13 times
• Mental picture - IDEA, used 13 times

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