The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MOOR , but the solution may also be MAINSTAY which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in New York Times).
Anchor crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MOOR | 81 % | 4 |
| KEDGE | 10 % | 5 |
| MAINSTAY | 6 % | 8 |
| GRAPNEL | 3 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Anchor
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- ground tackle
- cast anchor
- drop anchor
- linchpin
- ground
- lynchpin
- anchorman
- anchorperson
- mainstay
- backbone
- kedge
- mooring
Crossword Answer definitions
MOOR noun- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- To cast anchor or become fastened.
- To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
- To secure or fix firmly.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result MOOR
- Make fast
- Secure a vessel
- Othello, e.g.
- Othello, for one
- Desolate place
- Open wasteland
- Othello, ethnically
- Secure, as a ship
- Anchor
- Tie up at the dock
More clues leading to the result KEDGE
- Small anchor
- Small anchor.
- Light anchor.
- Type of anchor.
- Anchor.
- Light anchor
- Tow, as by an anchor chain
- Anchor
More clues leading to the result MAINSTAY
- Anchor
- Dependable type
- Bread and butter, so to speak
- Chief supporter
- Chief support
- Essential part
- Chief support.
- Principal support
- Mast support
- Bulwark