Answer: SORE
SORE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 235 times.
Referring Clues:
- Needing liniment
 - Hurting
 - Resentful
 - Achy
 - Mad as a hornet
 - Peeved
 - Mad (at)
 - Holding a grudge
 - Upset
 - Recovering from a charley horse
 - Painful
 - None too happy
 - Ticked off
 - Welt
 - Kind of loser
 - Word with bed or saddle
 - Teed off
 - Like poor losers
 - Stung
 - Your throat might be this from yelling
 - Huffy
 - Miffed
 - Disgruntled
 - Like some losers
 - Seeing red
 - Needing some kneading?
 - Put out
 - Burned up
 - Annoyed
 - Plenty mad
 - Ticked
 - Tender
 - Irritated
 - *Teed off
 - Sensitive
 - Really steamed
 - Hot under the collar
 - In need of a masseuse
 - Steamed
 - In a huff
 - Bent out of shape
 - Ruing the aerobics
 - Ruing the run, perhaps
 - Like some subjects
 - Needing a masseuse
 - In need of liniment
 - Plenty angry
 - Steamed up
 - Nursing a grudge
 - Word after saddle or cold
 - Riled
 - Angry
 - In a snit
 - Vexed
 - Like bad losers
 - Offended
 - Cold ___ (fever blister)
 - All in a huff
 - Really teed off
 - Raw spot on the skin
 - In need of Bengay
 - Hot
 - Ready for a hot bath, maybe
 - Sensitive to the touch
 - Feeling achy
 - Feeling miffed
 - In need of a massage
 - Requiring liniment
 - Feeling angry
 - Needing a massage
 - Angry, informally
 - Not happy
 - Feeling yesterday's exercise
 - Paying for exercise?
 - Sight for ___ eyes
 - Sensitive, as a subject
 - Tender to the touch
 - Thumb condition?
 - Carrying a grudge
 - Aching
 - Very painful
 - Saddle irritation
 - Needing liniment, e.g.
 - Worst kind of loser
 - Harboring a grudge
 - Touchy
 - Type of thumb
 - In need of an ice pack
 - Needing to cool down
 - Word with "thumb" or "loser"
 - Word with throat or loser
 - Thumb or throat condition, perhaps
 - Feeling yesterday's exercise, perhaps
 - Word with thumb or loser
 - Mad about something
 - Like a gym visitor the next day, maybe
 - Not at all pleased
 - Recovering from surgery
 - Upset (at)
 - In need of a backrub
 - Ruing the workout, maybe
 - Like some subjects or losers
 - In need of a rubdown
 - Needing kneading
 - Like some eyes
 - Needing ice, maybe
 - Smarting
 - A sight for ___ eyes
 - Like a running back after a game
 - Still mad
 - In pain
 - Achy and tender
 - Feeling the workout afterwards
 - Feeling stood-up, say
 - Cross
 - Like painful area
 - Fuming
 - Irate
 - Wounded
 - Spot to salve
 - Mad
 - Painful spot
 - Irked
 - Tender spot
 - Filled with 25 Down
 - See 9-Down
 - Not losing well
 - Blister, e.g.
 - In a bad mood
 - Like many, post-workout
 - Feeling it in one's quads, say
 - Tender, as muscles
 - Achy after a workout
 - Like a mover's muscles, say
 - Not taking a loss well, say
 - Hurt
 - Embittered
 - Angrily offended
 - Having smarts?
 - Painfully tender
 - Type of thumb or loser
 - Piqued
 - Hopping mad
 - Like a Monday morning quarterback?
 - Not gracious, as a loser
 - Achy from a workout
 - Like one taken off the payroll, maybe
 - Caker, for example
 - Still aching
 - Like a certain thumb
 - Bearing a grudge
 - Furious
 - Not happy at all
 - Bruised
 - Nursing a grudge, say
 - Feeling a long day of work
 - Feeling the effects of a workout
 - Bothered
 - Aggravated
 - Bad-tempered
 - In a foul mood
 - Fighting mad
 - Bitter
 - Seething
 - Really ticked off
 - Kind of spot or loser
 - Needing ibuprofen
 - In need of an ice bath, say
 - Pretty miffed
 - Pained
 - Aching; tender
 - Painful, as muscles
 - Blister or scrape
 - Feeling hurt
 - Paying for a hard workout?
 - Like a poor loser
 - Type of loser or spot
 - Feeling achey
 - In need of Icy Hot
 - Ill-tempered
 - Needing a rubdown, perhaps
 - Unlike a gracious loser
 - Aggrieved
 - Word before loser or thumb
 - Needing a massage, perhaps
 - Creaking with pain
 - ___ spot
 - Peevish
 - Word with spot or sport
 - Feeling annoyed
 - Angry or achy
 - Type of subject
 - Fit to be tied
 - Pained or peeved
 - Feeling yesterday's workout
 - ___ loser
 - In an angry mood
 - ___ loser (bad sport)
 - In a peeved mood
 - Feeling put out
 - Feeling vexed
 - Painful to the touch
 - Far from pleased
 - In need of a massage, perhaps
 - Steaming
 - Like a bad loser
 - Like your legs after leg day
 - More than miffed
 - In need of an ice bath
 - Like thighs after Leg Day
 - Word before "loser" or "point"
 - Like forearms after rock climbing
 - Word before "spot" or "loser"
 - Feeling the effects of a long shift, say
 - Like legs after a barre class
 - Like arms after painting a room, perhaps
 - Like abs after a lot of crunches
 - Achy from exercise
 - Really ticked
 - In need of a foam roller
 - Word before "subject" or "loser"
 - Suffering after a workout
 - Like legs after a long run
 - Hardly pleased
 - Feeling yesterday's yoga class, perhaps
 - Feeling the effects of too much exercise, say
 - Really feeling it, so to speak
 - Feeling resentful
 - Like legs after a long hike, maybe
 - Feeling the effects of leg day
 - Really feeling that cycling session
 - Like feet after a race, perhaps
 - Really mad
 - Feeling the consequences of trying to nap on a plane
 - Really feeling yesterday's 5K
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 31, 2025
 - New York Times - October 21, 2025
 - USA Today - October 07, 2025
 - LA Times - September 02, 2025
 - New York Times - August 28, 2025
 - USA Today - July 23, 2025
 - New York Times - July 01, 2025
 - USA Today - June 11, 2025
 - LA Times - April 28, 2025
 - USA Today - October 22, 2024
 - USA Today - October 02, 2024
 - USA Today - October 01, 2024
 - New York Times - September 25, 2024
 - New York Times - September 13, 2024
 - LA Times - September 05, 2024
 - LA Times - August 07, 2024
 - New York Times - June 30, 2024
 - New York Times - June 10, 2024
 - USA Today - May 22, 2024
 - LA Times - April 29, 2024
 
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