The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word AXE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Can crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AXE | 33 % | 3 |
| FIRE | 18 % | 4 |
| TIN | 12 % | 3 |
| SACK | 6 % | 4 |
| REAR | 4 % | 4 |
| LETGO | 4 % | 5 |
| HASTHECAPACITY | 2 % | 14 |
| CLINK | 2 % | 5 |
| FIREANEMPLOYEE | 2 % | 14 |
| HOOSEGOW | 2 % | 8 |
| SLAMMER | 1 % | 7 |
| PRESERVE | 1 % | 8 |
| CONTAINEROFSOUP | 1 % | 15 |
| STIR | 1 % | 4 |
| COMMODE | 1 % | 7 |
| PUTUP | 1 % | 5 |
| TUSHIE | 1 % | 6 |
| BUTT | 1 % | 4 |
| MAY | 1 % | 3 |
| TUSH | 1 % | 4 |
| LAVATORY | 1 % | 8 |
| CONTAINEROFTUNA | 1 % | 15 |
| LAV | 1 % | 3 |
| JOHN | 1 % | 4 |
| TOILET | 1 % | 6 |
| LAYOFF | 1 % | 6 |
| DEEPSIX | 1 % | 7 |
| BEABLE | 1 % | 6 |
Why may AXE be the right solution?
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Can
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fundament
- may
- might
- facility
- get
- privy
- stern
- behind
- tail end
- rear end
- terminate
- prat
Crossword Answer definitions
AXE noun- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- To fell or chop with an axe.
- To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
- The axle of a wheel.
- To furnish with an axle.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To request permission to do something.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To invite.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
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 AXE
- Boot out
- Bunyan's tool
- Cut
- Fire
- Fireman's tool
- Give the boot
- Paul Bunyan's tool
- Show the door to
- Chop
- Cleaver
More clues leading to the result FIRE
- "__ at will"
- Can
- Put in a kiln
- Camper's need
- With 57-Across, "atomic" sucking candy that violates building safety codes?
- Let go
- Sack
- Bake, as pottery
- Send packing
- "___ in the hole!"
More clues leading to the result TIN
- Jack Haley's metal
- Start to type
- Can material
- Oscar statuette, essentially
- Solder component
- __ ear
- Canister
- Element number 50
- Sardine' s home
- Word with whistle or cup
More clues leading to the result SACK
- Sad __ (inept one)
- Give the ax to
- Paper bag
- Potato holder
- Tackle the quarterback
- Ax
- Bag
- Potato purchase
- Container
- Style of loose dress
More clues leading to the result REAR
- Bring up
- Hitchcock's "____ Window"
- Hitchcock's window
- Kind of guard or end
- Last one brings it up
- Rise high in the air
- Backseat
- Duff
- Hindquarters
- Stern
More clues leading to the result LETGO
- Fire
- Release
- Command said while hitting someone with your purse
- Don't be inhibited
- Downsized
- Released
- Given one's walking papers
- Taken off the payroll
- "Turn loose!"
- Dismiss
More clues leading to the result HASTHECAPACITY
More clues leading to the result CLINK
- Jail
- Sound from a toaster
- Toasting sound
- Bar sound
- Hoosegow
- Sound from a toaster?
- Sound of touching glasses
- Slammer
- Lockup
- Sound post-toast
More clues leading to the result FIREANEMPLOYEE
More clues leading to the result HOOSEGOW
More clues leading to the result SLAMMER
More clues leading to the result PRESERVE
- Sanctuary
- Uphold
- Where game is protected
- Marmalade.
- Save.
- Place for game.
- Keep intact.
- Marmalade
- Put up fruit
- Game place
More clues leading to the result CONTAINEROFSOUP
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 COMMODE
- Washbasin stand
- Headdress popular about 1700.
- Low cabinet
- Low chest of drawers
- Where to go
- Can
- Elegant chest of drawers
- Wash basin holder
More clues leading to the result PUTUP
- Erect
- Lodge
- Part three of the quip
- Wager
- Accommodate
- Provide with lodging
- Provide, as money
- Something to do with dukes?
- Abide, with "with"
- Built
More clues leading to the result TUSHIE
More clues leading to the result BUTT
More clues leading to the result MAY
- A time in spring
- "Seven Days In ___"
- Spring time
- Wallace's running mate Curtis Le __
- __ Day (socialist holiday)
- "Seven Days in___"
- Memorial Day month
- Wallace running mate Curtis Le __
- Star Wars Day month
- Lovely spring month, one hopes
More clues leading to the result TUSH
- ZZ Top hit
- What a bum
- Exclamation of disdain
- Patootie
- Exclamation of impatience
- Backside
- "Phooey!" relative
- Derrière
- Fanny
- Heinie
More clues leading to the result LAVATORY
More clues leading to the result CONTAINEROFTUNA
More clues leading to the result LAV
- WC
- W.C.
- Head, for short
- John
- Place to make a pit stop?
- Small can?
- Throne of England
- Loo
- Restroom, for short
- Welsh washroom
More clues leading to the result JOHN
- Composer Williams
- Oliver of late night talk
- Red Sox skipper Farrell
- Scopes of the Scopes Monkey Trial
- See 93 Across
- Magna Carta signer
- Fab Four guy
- "Help!" songwriter
- Doe or Deere
- Keats or Kennedy
More clues leading to the result TOILET
- __ water (cologne)
- Sort of kit or water
- Process of grooming
- Commode
- Bathroom
- John
- Loo
- Place to go?
- Bathroom fixture
- Bidet partner
More clues leading to the result LAYOFF
- "Stop bothering me!"
- Let go
- "Stop bugging me!"
- Fire
- Take a break
- Dismiss temporarily
- Cease: Suffix.
- Respite.
- Stop work.
- Recessionary ill
More clues leading to the result DEEPSIX
- Jettison, as office paper
- Throw out
- Throw overboard
- Get rid of, slangily
- Get rid of
- Junk
- Toss out
- Toss
- Dump
- Chuck