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 |
| PUTUP | 1 % | 5 |
| COMMODE | 1 % | 7 |
| TUSHIE | 1 % | 6 |
| LAVATORY | 1 % | 8 |
| BUTT | 1 % | 4 |
| MAY | 1 % | 3 |
| TUSH | 1 % | 4 |
| CONTAINEROFTUNA | 1 % | 15 |
| LAV | 1 % | 3 |
| LAYOFF | 1 % | 6 |
| JOHN | 1 % | 4 |
| TOILET | 1 % | 6 |
| BEABLE | 1 % | 6 |
| DEEPSIX | 1 % | 7 |
| CONTAINEROFSOUP | 1 % | 15 |
| STIR | 1 % | 4 |
| SLAMMER | 1 % | 7 |
| PRESERVE | 1 % | 8 |
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 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 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 TUSHIE
More clues leading to the result LAVATORY
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 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 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 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 BEABLE
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
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