The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BASTE , but the solution may also be GAS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Butter up? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BASTE | 52 % | 5 |
| ARIES | 12 % | 5 |
| FLATTER | 8 % | 7 |
| SOFTSOAP | 8 % | 8 |
| GAS | 4 % | 3 |
| APPLEPOLISH | 4 % | 11 |
| CAJOLE | 4 % | 6 |
| CURRYFAVOR | 4 % | 10 |
| COMPLNT | 4 % | 7 |
Why may GAS be the right solution?
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Butter up?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- brown-nose
- butter
- melt someone's butter
- kiss up to
- butter someone's biscuit
- play up to
- kiss up
- brush up to
- suck up
- soft-soap
- put butter on one's bread
- gas up
Crossword Answer definitions
BASTE verb- To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
- To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (by extension) To coat over something.
- To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
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 BASTE
- Butter the Butterball
- Sew loosely
- Moisten the roast
- Pound placed in your ear (5)
- Prepare a roast
- Sew loosely (5)
- Work on the turkey
- Put in stitches
- Sew for the nonce
- Put loose stitches in
More clues leading to the result ARIES
- Zodiacal sign
- Ram sign
- Sign of spring
- Sign of the Zodiac
- Spring sign
- Dodge model
- Early spring sign
- Stellar ram
- One who is energetic and infantile, supposedly
- Celestial batterer
More clues leading to the result FLATTER
- Use oil on, you might say
- Apple-polish
- Butter up
- ___ than a pancake
- Soft-soap
- Blacksmith's tool
- Praise insincerely
- Praise effusively
- Butter up big-time
- Sweet-talk
More clues leading to the result SOFTSOAP
- FLATTER
- Cajole
- Flattery used to get one's way
- Persuade with flattery
- Butter up
- Flattery
- Unctuous flattery: Slang.
- Blarney.
- Flattery: Colloq.
- Flatter: Colloq.
More clues leading to the result GAS
- Coal or mustard
- Furnace fodder
- Incessant talk
- Loads of fun
- Natural fuel
- __-guzzler
- "What a ___!"
- Big buzz
- Neon, for one
- Stove fuel
More clues leading to the result APPLEPOLISH
- Curry favor with the boss, say
- Flatter
- Act obsequiously
- Butter up
- Curry favor by flattery
- Curry favor with
More clues leading to the result CAJOLE
- Coax with flattery
- Coax playfully
- Persuade using flattery
- Work one's wiles upon
- Soft-soap
- Persuade with promises
- Wheedle
- Persuade
- Sweet-talk
- Flatter
More clues leading to the result CURRYFAVOR
- Play the toady
- *Ingratiate oneself (with)
- Be a toady
- Advance by flattery
- Use flattery
- Seek advancement through flattery
- Seek approval by flattery.
- Ingratiate oneself, e.g.
- Brown-nose
- Butter up