The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CANS , but the solution may also be SACKS which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in Wall Street Journal).
Axes crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CANS | 36 % | 4 |
| HEWS | 20 % | 4 |
| SACKS | 20 % | 5 |
| FIRES | 12 % | 5 |
| GUITARS | 4 % | 7 |
| LONESOBJECTSROTATEON | 4 % | 20 |
| CHOPS | 4 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Axes
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- approaches
- areas
- arteries
- aspects
- avenues
- axils
- axle
- axles
- cans
- centers
- centres
- choppers
Crossword Answer definitions
CANS noun- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
- Buttocks.
- Jail or prison.
- (in the plural) Headphones.
- A drinking cup.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- (in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- To seal in a can.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To shut up.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To hole the ball.
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 CANS
- Puts up?
- Some recyclables
- Preserves
- Recyclables
- Blocks someone from their trade?
- Ends of a certain homemade phone
- Food drive offerings
- Fires
- Supermarket stack
- Bomb shelter items
More clues leading to the result HEWS
- Chops down
- Takes an axe to
- Uses a hatchet
- Cuts down
- Swings an axe
- Shapes with an ax
- Cuts cords
- Takes a chainsaw to
- Axes a tree
- Cuts down, as trees
More clues leading to the result SACKS
- Potato packages
- Potato holders
- Neuroscientist Oliver
- Potato bags
- "Awakenings" author
- Fires
- Gives the ax to
- Lets go
- Axes
- Burlap bags
More clues leading to the result FIRES
- Cans or sacks
- Gets done aiming?
- Lets go
- Gives the ax
- Asks questions, with "away"
- Pink-slips
- Forest rangers' worries
- Camp sights
- Discharges
- Kindles
More clues leading to the result GUITARS
- Some are nothing but air
- Instruments for Segovia
- Pick axes?
- Backing for 20 Across
- Rock instruments
- Fenders, e.g.
- Fretful things?
- Sources of soft music.
- Musical instruments
- They may be picked