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 |
| GETTO | 2 % | 5 |
| VEX | 2 % | 3 |
| DISTURB | 2 % | 7 |
| TROUBLE | 2 % | 7 |
| TODO | 2 % | 4 |
| PAIN | 2 % | 4 |
| HARASS | 1 % | 6 |
| BUG | 1 % | 3 |
| RILE | 1 % | 4 |
| PESTER | 1 % | 6 |
| NAG | 1 % | 3 |
| NUISANCE | 1 % | 8 |
| EAT AT | 1 % | 6 |
| TEASE | 1 % | 5 |
| NAGAT | 1 % | 5 |
| WORRY | 1 % | 5 |
| UNSETTLE | 1 % | 8 |
| WEARON | 0 % | 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 |
| GETAT | 0 % | 5 |
| PERTURB | 0 % | 7 |
| ANNOYANCE | 0 % | 9 |
| PEEVE | 0 % | 5 |
| IRRITATE | 0 % | 8 |
| FAZE | 0 % | 4 |
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 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 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 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 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 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 EAT AT
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 WEARON
- Annoy
- Elapse tediously
- Seem grating to
- Bore or burden
- Induce irritability
- Pass slowly, as time
- Pass slowly
- Irritate
- Become annoying to
- Make one tired
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 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
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