The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ADO , but the solution may also be EAT AT which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Bother crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ADO | 19 % | 3 |
| IRK | 13 % | 3 |
| EATAT | 11 % | 5 |
| ANNOY | 10 % | 5 |
| AIL | 7 % | 3 |
| HASSLE | 5 % | 6 |
| PEST | 5 % | 4 |
| FUSS | 3 % | 4 |
| MOLEST | 2 % | 6 |
| VEX | 2 % | 3 |
| DISTURB | 2 % | 7 |
| GETTO | 2 % | 5 |
| TROUBLE | 2 % | 7 |
| TODO | 2 % | 4 |
| PAIN | 2 % | 4 |
| HARASS | 1 % | 6 |
| PESTER | 1 % | 6 |
| NAG | 1 % | 3 |
| NUISANCE | 1 % | 8 |
| BUG | 1 % | 3 |
| RILE | 1 % | 4 |
| TEASE | 1 % | 5 |
| NAGAT | 1 % | 5 |
| WORRY | 1 % | 5 |
| UNSETTLE | 1 % | 8 |
| EAT AT | 1 % | 6 |
| IRE | 0 % | 3 |
| NEEDLE | 0 % | 6 |
| STIR | 0 % | 4 |
| NETTLE | 0 % | 6 |
| HEADACHE | 0 % | 8 |
| AFFLICT | 0 % | 7 |
| UPSET | 0 % | 5 |
| GRATE | 0 % | 5 |
| ANNOYER | 0 % | 7 |
| MIFF | 0 % | 4 |
| ANNOYANCE | 0 % | 9 |
| GETAT | 0 % | 5 |
| PERTURB | 0 % | 7 |
| PEEVE | 0 % | 5 |
| IRRITATE | 0 % | 8 |
| FAZE | 0 % | 4 |
| WEARON | 0 % | 6 |
Why may NUISANCE be the right solution?
The answer "NUISANCE" fits the clue "Bother" because a nuisance is something or someone that causes annoyance or irritation, which is synonymous with the idea of being bothered.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bother
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- botheration
- annoy
- vex
- pain in the neck
- annoyance
- nuisance
- hassle
- irritate
- pain in the ass
- trouble
- fuss
- pain
Crossword Answer definitions
ADO noun- Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion
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 ADO
More clues leading to the result IRK
More clues leading to the result EATAT
- Bug
- Vex
- "___ Joe's"
- Vex incessantly
- "__ Joe's"
- Bother over time
- Really bother
- Really irritate
- Nag, nag, nag
- __ home (dine in)
More clues leading to the result ANNOY
- Make hot under the collar
- Pester
- Slightly irritate
- Drive bonkers
- Bug
- Be on the back of
- Get under the collar of
- Be a pain in the neck
- Bother
- Irritate
More clues leading to the result AIL
- Be sick
- Feel bad
- Feel lousy
- Feel malaise
- Have a bug
- Have it bad
- Have the blahs
- Have the miseries
- Be a bit off
- Be out of sorts
More clues leading to the result HASSLE
- Botheration
- Bug
- Altercate
- Discompose
- Talking to customer service, typically
- Pain in the neck
- Big runaround
- Major headache
- Real pain in the ass
- Squabble
More clues leading to the result PEST
- Dennis, to Mr. Wilson
- Annoying one
- Burr under the saddle
- Insecticide victim
- Nuisance
- Annoying person
- Exterminator's quarry
- Roach or slug
- Roach, for one
- Royal pain
More clues leading to the result FUSS
- Act the mother hen
- Bustle
- Nag
- Be finicky
- Sort of budget?
- Needless activity
- Complain about trifles
- Ado
- Play the mother hen
- Bellyache
More clues leading to the result MOLEST
More clues leading to the result VEX
More clues leading to the result DISTURB
- Ruffle
- Bother
- Interrupt
- "Do not" follower, on a closed-door sign
- Break in on
- Break in on.
- Roil
- Unsettle
- Trouble
- Opposite of "let sleeping dogs lie"
More clues leading to the result GETTO
- Arrive
- Arrive at
- Reach
- Really irk
- Bother
- Bother, after a while
- "___ work!"
- Affect emotionally
- Have an effect on
- Annoy
More clues leading to the result TROUBLE
- Problems
- "The ___ With Harry" (Hitchcock film)
- Difficulty
- Bother
- Hot water
- Woe
- Misfortune
- Hot water, so to speak
- Make an extra effort
- Be a bother to
More clues leading to the result TODO
- Fuss
- List heading
- Brouhaha
- __ list (chores)
- Rowdydow
- Type of list
- Kind of list
- Type of list with chores
- Flap
- "What ___?"
More clues leading to the result PAIN
- Agony
- Pesky kid
- Soreness
- Advil target
- "No ___, no gain"
- Pesky kid, e.g.
- Gain prerequisite
- Annoyance
- Obnoxious brat
- World of hurt
More clues leading to the result HARASS
- Bug
- Torment
- Dog
- Drive up a wall
- Be a constant pest
- Go beyond pestering
- Persecute
- Annoy persistently
- Hector
- Nag
More clues leading to the result PESTER
More clues leading to the result NAG
- Harp
- Worthless horse
- Fuss at
- Get on someone's case
- Harry
- Henpeck
- Old horse or ex-wife
- Pester
- Remind and remind and remind
- Annoy
More clues leading to the result NUISANCE
- Pest
- Pain in the neck
- Hassle
- Tort in common law
- Inconvenience.
- Mischief.
- Pest.
- Bother.
- Annoyance.
- Kind of tax
More clues leading to the result BUG
- Glitch
- Listening device
- Annoy
- Common cold
- Pester
- Program problem
- Eavesdropper's aid
- Surveillance device
- Popular VW car
- Plant microphones
More clues leading to the result RILE
More clues leading to the result TEASE
More clues leading to the result NAGAT
- Bother persistently
- Keep bothering
- Find fault with
- Continually find fault with
- Bother persistently, as an injury
- Find constant fault with
- Torment
- Be shrewish with
- Needle
- Pester persistently
More clues leading to the result WORRY
- "Sorrow looks back, ___ looks around, faith looks up" (Emerson)
- Lose sleep
- Fret
- "What, me ___?" (Mad magazine motto)
- End of Alfred E. Neuman's slogan
- It "often gives a small thing a big shadow": old proverb
- Stew
- Anxiety
- Be fretful
- Gray hair dye.
More clues leading to the result UNSETTLE
More clues leading to the result EAT AT
More clues leading to the result IRE
More clues leading to the result NEEDLE
- Hector
- Knitter's need
- Pine tree leaf
- Provoke
- Pine leaf
- Dash indicator
- Meter "figure"
- Razz
- Obelisk or spire
- Stylus
More clues leading to the result STIR
- Begin to move
- Brouhaha
- Combine
- Cooking direction
- Mix up
- Ruckus
- Tend to the batter
- Tend to the sauce
- Use a swizzle stick
- __-crazy
More clues leading to the result NETTLE
- Irk
- Goad
- Harass
- Irritate
- Stinging plant
- Get under the skin of
- Plant with stinging leaves
- Plant with a sting
- Vex
- Herb with stinging hairs
More clues leading to the result HEADACHE
- Migraine
- Big problem
- Bother
- Annoyance
- Big pain
- Bothersome type
- Aspirin target
- Bothersome person
- Annoying situation
- Major inconvenience
More clues leading to the result AFFLICT
More clues leading to the result UPSET
- Capsize
- In an agitated state
- Knock over
- 100-to-1 underdog's victory
- Out of sorts
- Unexpected victory
- Overturn
- Sports surprise
- Tip over
- Churning
More clues leading to the result GRATE
- Prepare Parmesan
- Prepare the Romano
- Prepare Parmesan cheese
- Shred potatoes
- Furnace feature
- Rankle
- Get annoying
- Set teeth on edge
- Storm-drain cover
- Iron framework
More clues leading to the result ANNOYER
More clues leading to the result MIFF
- Offend
- Annoy
- Cause annoyance
- Vex
- Give minor offense to
- Tick off
- Irritate
- Vex a bit
- Bend out of shape
- Make sore
More clues leading to the result ANNOYANCE
- Vexation
- Irritated feeling
- Botheration.
- Vexation.
- Pebble in one's shoe, e.g.
- Hassle
- Pain in the neck
- Bother
More clues leading to the result GETAT
More clues leading to the result PERTURB
- Unsettle
- Trouble the mind
- Agitate
- Bother
- Agitate.
- Give cause for alarm.
- Make uneasy.
- Disquiet greatly; agitate
- Disquiet
- Discompose