The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STAVE which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2014.
Avert, with "off" crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STAVE | 86 % | 5 |
| WARD | 14 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Avert, with "off"
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stave
- ward
- forfend
- parry
- averruncate
- averting
- forefend
- stave off
- defray
- deflect
- deprecate
- dodge
Crossword Answer definitions
STAVE noun- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
- A staff or walking stick.
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
- (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
- To walk or move rapidly.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
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 STAVE
- Barrel part
- Cask part
- Cooper's part
- __ off (repel)
- Barrel strip
- Cooper's piece
- Poetry stanza
- Fend (off)
- Cooper's board
- Avert, with "off"