The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RELENT , but the solution may also be YIELD which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Back down crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RELENT | 15 % | 6 |
| LUMBAR | 7 % | 6 |
| DHTIW | 5 % | 5 |
| RENSENOESOL | 5 % | 11 |
| UORGEMOSEVIG | 5 % | 12 |
| LFETIHWEHTEVAW | 5 % | 14 |
| RTERYTSAHATAEB | 5 % | 14 |
| CNUYRC | 5 % | 6 |
| OLLUP | 5 % | 5 |
| IHEHTROFDAEH | 5 % | 12 |
| UTIPAC | 5 % | 6 |
| BLINK | 2 % | 5 |
| CAPITULATE | 2 % | 10 |
| LOSEONESNERVE | 2 % | 13 |
| WITHDRAW | 2 % | 8 |
| HEADFORTHEHILLS | 2 % | 15 |
| RENEGE | 2 % | 6 |
| CRYUNCLE | 2 % | 8 |
| PULLOUT | 2 % | 7 |
| BEATAHASTYRETREAT | 2 % | 17 |
| WAVETHEWHITEFLAG | 2 % | 16 |
| STOOPED | 2 % | 7 |
| GIVESOMEGROUND | 2 % | 14 |
| YIELD | 2 % | 5 |
| RETRACT | 2 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Back down
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- back off
- bow out
- back up
- pull out
- chicken out
- climb down
- stand down
- step down
- walk back the cat
- do down
- move down a notch
- dial down a notch
Crossword Answer definitions
RELENT noun- Stay; stop; delay.
- A relenting.
- To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper
- To slacken; to abate.
- To lessen, make less severe or intense.
- (of substance) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting
- Softhearted; yielding
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 RELENT
More clues leading to the result LUMBAR
- Kind of vertebra
- Kind of region, anatomically speaking
- Like some medical punctures
- Like the vertebrae directly above the pelvis
- Like a vertebral region
- Part of the spine
- Back down?
- ___ vertebrae.
- Type of vertebra
- Like some vertebrae
More clues leading to the result DHTIW
More clues leading to the result RENSENOESOL
More clues leading to the result UORGEMOSEVIG
More clues leading to the result LFETIHWEHTEVAW
More clues leading to the result RTERYTSAHATAEB
More clues leading to the result CNUYRC
More clues leading to the result OLLUP
More clues leading to the result IHEHTROFDAEH
More clues leading to the result UTIPAC
More clues leading to the result BLINK
- Nictitate
- Flicker
- Get outglared?
- Respond to sunglare
- Bat both eyes
- Eyelash flutter
- First one to ___ (loser)
- Shine intermittently, as a light
- Show surprise
- Back down
More clues leading to the result CAPITULATE
More clues leading to the result LOSEONESNERVE
More clues leading to the result WITHDRAW
More clues leading to the result HEADFORTHEHILLS
- "We gotta go, immediately!"
- Cut and run
- Leader's final exhortation to cohorts
- Flee
- Toilet, given to a Fox animated family?
- Flee (and what you must supply four times in this puzzle)
- Scram
- SPLIT
- "Let's get outta here!"
- Go
More clues leading to the result RENEGE
- Bridge failure
- Bridge no-no
- Go back on one's word
- Go back on a promise
- Play a club when you should have played a heart
- Commit a card sin
- Goof in a card game
- Play a card out of suit
- Go back on
- Go back on a deal
More clues leading to the result CRYUNCLE
- Give
- Concede ... or a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues
- Throw in the towel
- Cave
- Admit defeat
- Give up
- Back down
- Concede defeat
More clues leading to the result PULLOUT
- Leave
- With 56-Across, use every available means (and instructions regarding 17-Across and 11- and 27-Down)
- Withdraw.
- Retreat
- Back down
- Depart
- Withdraw
More clues leading to the result BEATAHASTYRETREAT
More clues leading to the result WAVETHEWHITEFLAG
More clues leading to the result STOOPED
- Bent over
- Round-shouldered
- Bent
- Bent a bit
- Condescended
- Not standing straight
- Back down
- Bent over.
- Leaned.
- Humbled oneself.
More clues leading to the result GIVESOMEGROUND
More clues leading to the result YIELD
- Road sign
- Give up ground
- Grin and bear it
- Relinquish
- Knuckle under
- Triangular road sign
- Bond number
- Give way
- Triangular sign
- Concede