The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ANIMALS , but the solution may also be OGRES which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).
Brutes crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ANIMALS | 21 % | 7 |
| OGRES | 16 % | 5 |
| BEASTS | 16 % | 6 |
| RUFFIANS | 11 % | 8 |
| APES | 11 % | 4 |
| SAVAGES | 11 % | 7 |
| TOUGHS | 5 % | 6 |
| CAVEMEN | 5 % | 7 |
| TROGLODYTES | 5 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Brutes
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- brutish
- beast
- beastly
- bestial
- savage
- creature
- wolf
- inhumane
- wildcat
- animal
- fauna
- animate being
Crossword Answer definitions
ANIMALS noun- In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
- In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
- In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
- A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- A person of a particular type.
- Matter, thing.
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 ANIMALS
- Safari sightings
- Zoo residents
- 9-Down member
- Brutes
- Pink Floyd album based loosely on a book by George Orwell
- Uncivilized sorts
- Moose and squirrel
- "The House of the Rising Sun" band, with "The"
- More of the request
- Members of a certain taxonomic kingdom
More clues leading to the result OGRES
- Folklore heavies
- Legendary monsters
- Fairy-tale fiends
- Grimm beasts
- Monsters
- Mythical monsters
- "Ultima" villains
- Beasts
- Big brutes
- Fairy tale baddies
More clues leading to the result BEASTS
- Demons
- Zoo denizens
- Big brutes
- Lion's subjects
- Lions and tigers and bears
- Barbarians
- Critters
- King of ___ (lion)
- Monsters
- Ark twosomes
More clues leading to the result RUFFIANS
More clues leading to the result APES
- Big lugs
- Copies
- Edgar Rice Burroughs characters
- Mimics
- "2001" characters
- Follows suit
- Imitates
- Does a takeoff
- Gibbons
- Jungle critters
More clues leading to the result SAVAGES
- "The Great Unwashed"
- Vicious sorts
- Attacks relentlessly
- Brutal beasts
- Goths
- Brutes
- Barbarians
- What the Andamanese and other islanders were.
- Crusoe's foes.
- The uncivilized.
More clues leading to the result TOUGHS
More clues leading to the result CAVEMEN
- Crude dudes, in slang
- Geico spokespeople with a short-lived sitcom
- Crude dudes
- Neanderthals
- Our ancestors.
- Subject of many courtship cartoons.
- Rough fellows.
- Troglodytes.
- Brutes
- Club-wielding wooers