The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word FAN , but the solution may also be MAVEN which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Buff crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FAN | 13 % | 3 |
| TONED | 11 % | 5 |
| NUT | 10 % | 3 |
| RUB | 7 % | 3 |
| TAN | 7 % | 3 |
| AFICIONADO | 7 % | 10 |
| POLISH | 6 % | 6 |
| SHINE | 6 % | 5 |
| MAVEN | 5 % | 5 |
| BURNISH | 5 % | 7 |
| FIEND | 3 % | 5 |
| WIPE | 2 % | 4 |
| BUILT | 2 % | 5 |
| DEVOTEE | 2 % | 7 |
| RIPPED | 1 % | 6 |
| INSHAPE | 1 % | 7 |
| YELLOWBROWN | 1 % | 11 |
| MUSCULAR | 1 % | 8 |
| BARESKIN | 1 % | 8 |
| ENTHUSIAST | 1 % | 10 |
| TONEDUP | 1 % | 7 |
| ECRU | 1 % | 4 |
| NAKED | 1 % | 5 |
| LIGHTBROWN | 1 % | 10 |
| LOVER | 1 % | 5 |
| BEIGE | 1 % | 5 |
Why may MAVEN be the right solution?
The word "buff" can mean an expert or enthusiast in a particular subject. "Maven" is a Yiddish word that means expert or connoisseur, making it a fitting answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Buff
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- buffet
- burnish
- furbish
- fan
- raw sienna
- colored
- flush
- chromatic
- lover
- afficionado
- altogether
- devotee
Crossword Answer definitions
FAN noun- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
- To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- To slap (a behind, especially).
- (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- (metaphoric) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To winnow grain.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
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 FAN
- 1996 De Niro film, with "The"
- August appliance
- Enthusiast
- Strike out
- Swing and miss
- Bleacherite
- Engine part
- Kind of mail
- Air mover
- Summer cooler
More clues leading to the result TONED
- Gave inflection to
- __ down (softened)
- ___ down (softened)
- Like one who's done lots of cleaning and pressing?
- Added muscle, with "up"
- Athletic
- In great shape
- Rippling with muscles
- Got fit, with "up"
- ___ up (got into shape)
More clues leading to the result NUT
- Bread or butter ender
- Cashew
- Off-the-wall guy
- Screwball
- Brazil or pecan
- Chest or dough finisher
- Hazel, for one
- Flake
- Litchi or flake
- Macadamia, for one
More clues leading to the result RUB
- Spice massaged onto raw food
- Try to work the knots out of, as a muscle
- Tug partner
- Massage
- "Ay, there's the ___"
- Get the knots out of, say
- Predicament
- Spa selection
- Source of irritation
- Abrade
More clues leading to the result TAN
- Catch rays
- Catch some rays
- Convert to leather
- Fan-__ (Chinese card game)
- Not pale
- Whale the tar out of
- Florida acquisition
- Summer shade
- Yellowish brown
- "The Joy Luck Club" author
More clues leading to the result AFICIONADO
- Loanword that means "amateur" in Spanish
- Buff
- Devotee
- Fan, Spanish style.
- Devotee.
- Fan
- Enthusiast
- Lover
- Spanish for “amateur”
More clues leading to the result POLISH
- Refinement
- Like Pope John Paul II
- Elegance
- Culture
- Buff
- Make shiny
- Knock (off)
- Put the finishing touches on
- Refined manner
- Shine
More clues leading to the result SHINE
- Do well
- 1996 Geoffrey Rush film
- Polish up
- Excel
- Stand out in a crowd
- Rush flick
- Rain alternative
- Rain's opposite
- Buff
- Show one's stuff
More clues leading to the result MAVEN
- Expert
- Whiz
- Expert in everyday matters
- Expert, as in language
- Connoisseur
- Self-styled expert
- Arbiter of taste
- Authority
- Buff
- Aficionado
More clues leading to the result BURNISH
More clues leading to the result FIEND
- Torturer
- Snidley Whiplash, for example
- Bad guy
- Villain
- Enthusiast, plus
- Hellish demon
- Satanic sort
- Enthusiast
- Savage
- Mr. Hyde, e.g.
More clues leading to the result WIPE
- Scene shift, in a movie
- Clean dishes
- Use a floor mat
- __ out (fall off one's surfboard)
- Classic film transition
- Desmudge, as a touchscreen
- Squeegee
- Erase
- Film-edit effect
- Help with the dishes
More clues leading to the result BUILT
- Fabricated
- Put up
- Like a hunk
- Indie rockers ___ to Spill
- Put together
- Like a brick house
- Having a good physique
- Well-muscled
- Constructed
- Buff
More clues leading to the result DEVOTEE
- Big fan
- Fan
- Zealot
- Ardent worshiper.
- Fan.
- Zealot.
- Loyal adherent.
- Ardent enthusiast.
- Ardent fan.
- Ardent partisan.
More clues leading to the result RIPPED
- Tore to shreds
- Super toned
- Muscular
- Buff
- Stole, with "off"
- Ready for the rag pile, maybe
- Was critical of
- In need of mending
- Torn
- Drunk, in slang
More clues leading to the result INSHAPE
- Buff
- Fit
- Fit as a fiddle
- Physically fit
- Working out
- In fine fettle: 2 wds.
- Fit as a fiddle.
- Fit.
- Middle of the quip
- Toned
More clues leading to the result YELLOWBROWN
More clues leading to the result MUSCULAR
- Powerfully built
- Like Mr. America contenders
- Buff
- Brawny
- Like weightlifters
- Ripped, say
- Powerful
- Ripped, in a way
- Like Popeye after eating spinach
More clues leading to the result BARESKIN
More clues leading to the result ENTHUSIAST
More clues leading to the result TONEDUP
- Hit the gym, perhaps
- Molded one's muscles
- Strengthened
- Strengthened, as muscles
- Worked out
- Got into shape
- Strengthened muscles
- Cut down on the flab
- Buff
- Got fit
More clues leading to the result ECRU
- Beige
- Color of many crosswords?
- Light brown color
- Neutral color
- Off-white
- Pale beige
- Pale yellow
- Earth tone
- Hose hue
- Hosiery shade
More clues leading to the result NAKED
- "The ___ and the Dead"
- In the buff
- Unvarnished, as truth
- Buff
- Unadorned
- In one's birthday suit
- "... to go ___ is the best disguise": William Congreve
- Like a bulb with no lampshade, say
- In the altogether
- In the raw
More clues leading to the result LIGHTBROWN
More clues leading to the result LOVER
- Romeo, e. g.
- Casanova
- Romeo, to Juliet
- Amorist
- Inamorata
- Paramour
- Beau
- Aficionado
- "Dream ___" (1959 Bobby Darin hit)
- What "amateur" originally meant