Wry face
The crossword clue "Wry face" is answered by MOUE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MOUE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOUE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOUE
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOUE, most used first.
- Grimace - used 70 times, most recently in 2021
- Pout - used 53 times, most recently in 2021
- Pouting grimace - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Pouty expression - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Pouty look - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Pouty face - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Pouting expression - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Little grimace - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Wry expression - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Pained expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Small grimace - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Face-to-face exam - ORAL, used 127 times
- Face shape - OVAL, used 66 times
- Wear a long face - MOPE, used 56 times
- Clock face - DIAL, used 48 times
- Face-off - DUEL, used 34 times
- Face-to-face test - ORAL, used 29 times
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