Referring Clues

• Show fallibility
• Bobble the ball
• Blow it
• Stub one's toe
• Be mistaken
• Make a mistake
• Slip
• Flub
• Mess up
• Not be perfect
• Muff
• Miscalculate
• Trip
• Slip up
• Misjudge
• Goof
• Drop the ball
• Underestimate, e.g.
• Answer incorrectly
• Make a misstep
• Be off base
• Stumble
• Blunder
• Stray
• Go wrong
• Make muffs
• Act human
• Fall from grace
• Pull a boner
• "To ___ is human..."
• Be off
• Are all wet
• Be faulty?
• Commit a faux pas
• Wander
• Go astray
• Drop one, say
• To do this is human
• Fall into evil ways
• Trespass
• Get it wrong
• Go bad?
• Make a goof
• Misquote, say
• Get wrong
• Goof up
• Go off
• Suffer a "brain cramp"
• Bobble
• Need correcting
• Fluff
• Lapse
• "To ___ is human ..."
• Elicit a 26-Down
• Make a boner
• Do wrong
• Miss a cue, say
• Make a miscue
• Need to be set straight
• Slip a cog
• Misstep
• Go off track
• Experience a brain cramp
• Say 2 + 2 = 5, say
• Boot one
•     Drop a brick
• Make a boo-boo
• Bobble a fly, say
• Miss
• Not set things right
• Miss the mark
• "To ___ is human"
• Act human?
• Fumble
• Miss a beat, perhaps
• Do something boneheaded
• Misplay, e.g.
• Misreckon
• Add instead of subtract, e.g.
• Transgress
• Muff one
• Cause an interception, e.g.
• Make a clanger
• Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation?
• Not be on target
• Drop a brick
• Kind of ant
• Behave badly
• Make a goof, not a go of
• Be inaccurate
• Misnumber a clue, maybe
• Screw up
• Boot one, in baseball
• Drop an easy one
• Miss a fly, say
• Do the wrong thing
• Bark up the wrong tree
• Fumble the ball
• Bungle up
• Be off-base
• Be 1-Across
• Need correction
• Go awry
• Slip or trip
• Trip or slip
• Reckon wrongly
• Bobble the ball, e.g.
• Louse up
• Exhibit poor judgment, perhaps
• Make a mess of things
• Make a blunder
• Bobble a ball, e.g.
• Be on the side of caution?
• Behave humanly?
• Write down the wrong answer
• Boot the baseball
• Prove fallible
• Drop a pop-up
• Make a faux pas
• Misplay
• Take a wrong turn
• Display fallibility
• Make a slip
• Be human?
• Throw wide, say
• Choose badly
• ___ on the side of caution
• Throw wide of the mark, say
• Drop the ball, e.g.
• Miscalculate, say
• Bungle
• Be human
• Give all for one or one for all, e.g.?
• Drop a pop-up, say
• "Do they not ___ that devise evil?": Proverbs 14:22
• Leave the straight and narrow
• Be human, so they say
• Make mistakes
• Commit a solecism
• Be human, according to a saying
• Show one's humanity?
• Zig instead of zag, say
• Be incorrect
• Boot the ball
• Go down the wrong path
• Throw too high, e.g.
• Get eliminated from a bee, say
• Throw wildly, e.g.
• Drop the ball, say
• Miss, say
• Boot a grounder
• Zig instead of zag?
• Be human, in a way
• Make a typo, say
• Overthrow first, say
• Muff a fly, e.g.
• Misspell a word, e.g.
• Not get the picture?
• Drop a pop
• Lose points on an exam, say
• Make a wrong choice
• Lose money on "Jeopardy!," e.g.
• Get something wrong
• Bobble something
• Need a redo
• "To ___ is human . . ."
• Foul up
• Guess wrong
• Humans do it
• "To ___ is human"
• Demonstrate humanity?
• Be imperfect
• Answer incorrectly, e.g.
• Act humanly?
• Behave humanly
• Stray from the straight and narrow
• Go bad
• "To ___ is human ..."
• Make a wrong choice, e.g.
• Trip or slip, e.g.
• Need to be corrected
• Misadd, e.g.
• Commit a blunder
• Commit a faux pas, e.g.
• Be dead wrong
• If you're human, you'll do it
• Blow one's lines, e.g.
• Boot a batted ball
• Write down the wrong answer, e.g.
• Delude oneself
• "To ___ is human . . ."
• Bumble
• Earn the right to say "My mistake"
• Necessitate an "Oops!"
• Thing to do on the side of caution
• Bark up the wrong tree, e.g.
• Miss a turnoff, e.g.
• Make a wrong turn, e.g.
• Botch things
• Fluff a line
• Drop an easy one, e.g.
• Choose badly, e.g.
• Mistake
• Transgress, e.g.
• Miss the routine grounder
• Prove one's humanity
• Prove one's humanity?
• Bobble a grounder, say
• Foozle
• Get knocked out of the spelling bee
• Muff a grounder
• It's human to do it
• Pull the wrong switch, e.g.
• Be wrong
• Botch a catch
• Drop a stitch
• What humans do
• Missay, say
• Commit a gaffe
• Misspeak, e.g.
• Hit the nail on the thumb
• Act proverbially human
• Act human, according to a proverb
• Commit a boo-boo
• Lose money on "Jeopardy!"
• Try to fit a square peg in a round hole, e.g.
• Commit catcher's interference, e.g.
• Botch something up
• Drop a brick, so to speak
• Misspeak or misspell
• Sail off-course, e.g.
• Go amiss
• Miss an easy fly
• Make a wrong move
• Commit 18-Down
• Wander off course, e.g.
• Flub it
• Flub the shot, say
• Overthrow, e.g.
• Type a typo
• Make faux pas
• Trip up
• Do a human thing
• Overthrow first, e.g.
• Misspell "misspell," e.g.
• Add wrong, e.g.
• Miss your exit, e.g.
• Bungle the job
• Drop the ball, literally or figuratively
• Sin, say
• Zig when you should have zagged, say
• Be off the mark
• Say the wrong thing
• Say the wrong thing
• Miss one
• Sin
• Transpose digits, say
• Act humanly
• Overcharge, e.g.
• Slip out
• Make a flub
• Miscalculate, perhaps
• Be at fault
• Push the wrong button, e.g.
• Choose the wrong path
• Botch the job
• Miswrite, say
• Thing to do on the cautious side?
• Botch one
• Botch
• Make missteps
• Make goofs
• Botch up
• Commit a misstep
• Show you're human
• Mess up
• Botch it up
• Not be correct
• Do it wrong
• Make a gaffe
• Be fallible
• Muff up
• Hit the nail on the thumb?
• Transpose digits, e.g.
• Fumble the ball, e.g.
• Go overboard, perhaps
• Be off target
• Misfield a ground ball, say
• "The wisest of the wise may ___": Aeschylus
• "The cautious seldom ___": Confucius
• Overthrow first base, e.g.
• Hit the nail on the thumb, e.g.
• Overcharge, say
• Be completely wrong
• Flub up
• Slip, say
• Do something wrong
• Miss a fly
• Make a booboo
• Behave humanly, in a saying
• Act inappropriately
• Flub a catch, e.g.
• Mix things up
• Have a lapse
• Mis-calculate
• Boot one on the field, say
• Get tripped up
• Boot one on the field, it's human
• Say 1 + 1 = 3, say
• Admit inadmissible evidence, say
• Misspeak, say
• Commit a mistake
• Break the law
• Fumble or stumble
• Write well as hell, say?
• Mishandle something, say
• "Uhh ..."
• Throw wildly, say
• Do something the wrong way
• Commit a goof
• Be stupid, but not on purpose
• Miss a step
• Drop a fly ball, e.g.
• Eff up
• Commit a miscue
• Misspell or misspeak
• Goof or go off
• Make a typo
• Be in the wrong
• Guess wrong, say
• Get one's wires crossed
• Exhibit fallibility
• Slip or trip, e.g.
• Stumble or fumble
• Make a blooper
• Leave the righteous path
• Give a wrong answer
• Miss an easy fly, e.g.
• Demonstrate one's humanity
• Come up with a wrong number
• Take a wrong turn, say
• It's human to do this
• Make a misplay
• Divide by zero in a computer program, maybe
• Make a left instead of a right, say
• Misplay a grounder
• Bobble a baseball
• Boot a baseball
• Make a baseball blooper reel
• Fumble, say
• Misidentify, e.g.
• Drop a routine fly ball
• Be off a bit
• Demonstrate one's humanity?
• Play the wrong golf ball, say
• Go too far, e.g.
• Throw too low, say
• Be a bungler
• Misdo something
• Bobble, drop or bungle
• Fail to be perfect
• Count six E's in this puzzle clue, for example
• Show one's fallibility
• Human thing to do
• Botch it
• Make a 63-Across
• Get things wrong
• Before, to Byron
• Throw wide of the cutoff man, say
• Get lost, say
• Veer off course
• Make a wrong turn, say
• Drop a popup
• Ga astray
• Throw the ball away, say
• "To ___ is human ..."
• Get someone's name wrong, e.g.
• Show imperfection
• Use the salad fork while eating one's entree, say
• Require an erasure
• Forget to carry the one, e.g.
• Act like a human
• End up short, say
• Show one's humanity
• Say irregardless?
• Make a wild throw, say
• Human thing to do, it's said
• Fumble, e.g.
• Make the wrong move
• Boot a grounder, say
• Miss an easy grounder, say
• Act human, proverbially
• Miscalculate or misspeak
• Affirm one's humanity?
• Do math incorrectly, e.g.
• Make an incorrect choice, e.g.
• Miss an easy spare, say
• Not be right
• Require a 110-Across, maybe
• Be amiss
• Miss one's exit, say
• Make 1-Down
• Make a wrong decision
• Muck it up
• Jump the gun, e.g.
• Miscalculate, e.g.
• Wander off logically
• Exemplify humanity, say
• Miss, for instance
• Fumble or foozle
• Make a wrong guess, e.g.
• Show poor judgment
• Write "mispell," e.g.
• Screw things up
• Muff it up
• Prompt a correction
• Boot an easy one
• Lose one's way
• Hit a sour note, say
• Hit a sour note, e.g.
• Be featured on a bloopers segment, maybe
• Miss on "Jeopardy!," e.g.
• Misspeak or misdo, e.g.
• Misspeak
• Bungle things
• Fumble a groundball
• Miscue
• Fumble or goof
• Prove one is human?
• Fumble a ground ball
• Claim 2 2 = 5, e.g.
• Misdo
• Make boo-boos
• "o ___ is human ...22
• Fumble a ground ball, for example
• Go off course
• Drop a liner, for example
• Make a slip-up
• Make a silly mistake
• Play a wrong note
• Jam goof-up
• Be off-key
• Slip of a girl losing head on river
• Stray from proper rectitude
• Be less than terribly wrong
• Give mistaken evidence of humanity
• Sinfully rob '22 Across' of gold?
• Stray from the proper road
• Go wrong out of sheer terror?
• Be wrong in giving a growl going to earth
• Put a foot wrong doing right about turn
• Prove one's fallibility
• Deviate
• Make blunders
• Prove oneself fallible
• Screw it up
• Throw wildly
• Flub the relay, say
• Behave like a human?
• Misspell, e.g.
• Overthrow to first, e.g.
• Have the wrong idea
• Call a spade a club, say
• Make a bad call
• Betray fallibility
• Cause an unearned run, perhaps
• Make slip-up
• Make mistake
• Make a mistake with bishop, bringing on end of game
• Peter Rabbit's blunder
• Be human, supposedly
• Hit the nail on the thumb?
• Stray in the summer rain
• Be goof-y?
• Mess things up
• Require 24-Down, perhaps
• Overthrow a base, say
• Miss an easy one
• Be faulty?
• Flub an easy one
• Say that the answer to this clue is WRONG, say
• Just be wrong
• Make a dumb mistake
• Throw into the dugout, say
• Fluff one's lines, say
• Earl with posh car? Perhaps this is to be human
• Get one's signals crossed, say
• Make flubs
• Be at 56-Across
• To growl at an egghead is the wrong thing to do
• Go wrong?
• Require an eraser, perhaps
• Need an eraser, say
• Burn the toast, say
• Stray from the proper route
• To ___ on the side of caution
• Lose points, perhaps
• Spell "spell" "spel," say
• Botch something
• Make gaffes
• Misstate
• Make a bonehead play
• Make wrong move with queen taking rook?
• Cause an unearned run
• Mix up one's facts, say
• Wander to the back of the queue with a growl
• Verb with preposition and noun homophones
• Exhibit one's humanity
• Play the wrong ball, say
• 34-Down cut
• Muff an easy one
• Do wrong things?
• Drop the ball, really
• Say the wrong question on "Jeopardy!," say
• Make a bonehead move
• Hit a wrong key, say
• Require an erasure, say
• Give the wrong final answer, for example
• Shank a tee shot, say
• Hit "Reply All" instead of "Reply," say
• Miss a stage cue, say
• Boot a grounder, e.g.
• Choose answer (a) instead of (b), say
• Miss an exit, say
• Be human?
• "I prefer to ___ with Plato ... than to be right": Cicero
• Use poor judgment
• Stray from the morally higher responsibility
• Make a wrong turn
• Get the facts mixed up
• Throw to the wrong base
• Not do something correctly
• Misdirect oneself
• Act human?
• Miscount, maybe
• Demonstrate fallibility
• Misreport something
• Hit a sour note
• Prove human
• Make an oopsie
• Lower one's fielding average
• Show mistaken signs of humanity
• Hit the head on the nail?
• Lay an egg, say
• Write "a lot" as "alot," say
• Spell this answer A-I-R, e.g.
• Call Richard "Robert," say
• Mess something up
• Wander logically
• Call someone by the wrong name, e.g.
• End up off
• Go off on the wrong path
• Hit "send" prematurely, say
• To be human
• Do something human?
• Say "Oopsie," say
• Be the one at fault
• Go astray out of sheer terror
• Claim 2 + 8 = 11
• Misspell somthing, say
• Head south to visit the North Pole, e.g.
• Make incorrect decisions
• Forget a date, e.g.
• Call Bob "Rob"
• Foul things up
• Gum up the works
• Make a miscalculation
• Flub something
• Drop an easy pop-up
• Give the wrong change, say
• "To say they ___ I dare not be so bold": Shakespeare
• Get an "Oh no" from Alex Trebek, say
• Make the wrong choice
• Write "mispell," say
• Muff something
• Lay an egg
• ___ on the side of
• Get the time wrong, say
• Forget an appointment, e.g.
• Goof up pretty good
• To do this is human, it's said
• Make an incorrect move
• Prove one's humanity, in a way
• Overshoot, say
• Have to say, "Oh, I got that wrong"
• Drop a liner
• Zig when one should zag, say
• Go wrong, note, having only two-thirds basic education
• Make the wrong call
• Type "teh," e.g.
• To growl at one's sweetheart is the wrong thing to do
• Accidentally hit "Reply All," say
• Zig when one should have zagged, say
• Slip on your own banana in Mario Kart, say
• "Umm ..."
• Mkae smoe tpyos, sya
• Being a bit of a terror, do wrong
• "We live in time; we ___, sometimes seriously" (Judith Butler)
• Be human, in a proverb
• Leave the oven on, e.g.
• Show one's humanity, perhaps
• Play a wrong note, say
• Misidentify something, e.g.
• Human thing to do?
• Send a text to the wrong person, say
• Add wrong, perhaps
• Make a typo ... or miss one
• Botch things up
• Turn left instead of right, perhaps
• Miss your exit, perhaps
• Elicit an "Oops!," maybe
• Hit the wrong button, say
• Misspell a word, say
• Be mistake-prone
• Have a lapse in judgment
• Sing the wrong lyric, e.g.
• Press "Reply All" instead of "Reply," for example
• Text the wrong person, say
• Make a 41-Down
• Take a bite of decorative fruit, e.g.
• Put dish soap in the dishwasher, say
• Have to say "I'm wrong"
• Write "ere" for this answer, say
• Forget to wear sunscreen, for example
• Drop a fly, e.g.
• Botch the job, say
• Act like a human?
• Accidentally mix in a red crayon among the blues
• Make boo-boos in judgment
• Go left instead of right, say
• Pour hamster food into the dog's bowl, say
• Sinfully rob '22 Across' of gold?
• Go the wrong way
• Display one's humanity, in a way
• Mistakenly hit reply all, e.g.
• "To ___ is human; to forgive, divine"
• Text an embarrassing screenshot to the wrong person, say
• Say "Whomever did this ...," say
• Unintentionally reply all, say
• Go wrong out of sheer terror?
• Mis-enter a passcode, say
• Go off the mark
• Speak too soon, say
• Slip up will goof up
• Call Bill Will
• Prove one's humanity?
• Spell "mispell," e.g.
• Step on your pet's perfect little foot, say
• Do math badly, e.g.
• Goof something up
• Mix up "their" and "there," e.g.
• Do wrong or right, by the late sovereign
• Get one wrong
• Make a mistake in sierras?
• Run a wallet through the washing machine, say
• Make silly mistakes
• Play a proper noun in Scrabble, say
• Make the team's blooper reel, perhaps
• Goof on a test
• Make a whoopsie
• What you might do on the side of caution
• Accidentally send a NSFW message to your boss, say
• Add salt instead of sugar, say
• "The cautious seldom ___" (quote attributed to Confucius)
• Make a Freudian slip, say
• Throw trash in the recycling bin, say
• Microwave aluminum foil, say
• Make a goofy mistake
• Fumble or bumble
• Make a fumble
• Miss a cue
• Mishandle a ground ball
• Do a whoopsie
• Write alot, say?
• Lock your keys in the car, for example
• Zig instead of zag, perhaps
• Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb
• Forget to water the plants, say
• "To ___ is human, but it feels divine": Mae West
• Calculate something incorrectly, say
• Give a redhead a half of beer and do wrong
• Miss the mark, maybe
• Use bleach on a load of colored laundry, say
• Muff or fluff
• Fail to hit save before closing, e.g.
• Prove human, in a way
• Elicit the facepalm emoji, say