This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Saturday, November 15, 2025 (57 Down). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Saturday puzzles are the hardest of the week and themeless, so clues are often deliberately misleading.
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OCD as a word: (figurative, sometimes offensive) Exhibiting an obsessive tendency; (medicine, psychology) Initialism of obsessive-compulsive disorder. [(medicine, psychology) A mental and behavioral disorder, characterized by obsessive intr....
OCD has been an answer 5 times in the NYT Crossword and Mini since November 15, 2025.
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