The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word UNDO , but the solution may also be AXE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Cancel crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| UNDO | 20 % | 4 |
| ANNUL | 19 % | 5 |
| DELE | 9 % | 4 |
| ERASE | 9 % | 5 |
| NEGATE | 6 % | 6 |
| SCRUB | 6 % | 5 |
| ABORT | 5 % | 5 |
| NIX | 4 % | 3 |
| XOUT | 3 % | 4 |
| DELETE | 3 % | 6 |
| VOID | 3 % | 4 |
| CALLOFF | 3 % | 7 |
| REMIT | 2 % | 5 |
| AXE | 1 % | 3 |
| REPEAL | 1 % | 6 |
| SCRAP | 1 % | 5 |
| RESCIND | 1 % | 7 |
| EFFACE | 1 % | 6 |
| WRITEOFF | 0 % | 8 |
| ABOLISH | 0 % | 7 |
| MARKOUT | 0 % | 7 |
| REVOKE | 0 % | 6 |
| DISANNUL | 0 % | 8 |
| SCRATCH | 0 % | 7 |
| KILL | 0 % | 4 |
| VOIDOUT | 0 % | 7 |
| OBLITERATE | 0 % | 10 |
| DROP | 0 % | 4 |
| ANNU | 0 % | 4 |
Why may NIX be the right solution?
"NIX" is a synonym for "cancel" that is commonly used in informal settings. It is also a concise and commonly used crossword answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cancel
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- delete
- invalidate
- offset
- set off
- natural
- call off
- suspend
- rescind
- terminate
- reschedule
- cancellation
- revoke
Crossword Answer definitions
UNDO noun- An operation that reverses a previous action.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- To unfasten.
- To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
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 UNDO
More clues leading to the result ANNUL
- Declare invalid
- Expunge
- Make void
- Cancel
- Void
- Invalidate
- Dissolve, as a union
- Declare legally void
- Declare void
- Undo
More clues leading to the result DELE
- Strike out
- Editor's remark
- Strike out, as copy
- Take out
- Mark of omission
- Takeout sign?
- Editor's mark
- Request to remove from a galley
- Takeout order?
- Proofer's word
More clues leading to the result ERASE
- Rub out
- Clean the slate
- Delete
- Delete a file
- Destroy
- Expunge
- Free up space, in a way
- Get the lead out?
- Wipe away
- Wipe out
More clues leading to the result NEGATE
More clues leading to the result SCRUB
- Postpone the launch
- Second-stringer
- Swab
- Give a good cleaning
- Do the floors
- Clean with elbow grease
- Get ready for surgery
- Cancel, as a rocket launch
- Prepare for the O.R.
- Probable benchwarmer
More clues leading to the result ABORT
- Cut short
- Scrub a mission
- End
- Terminate prematurely
- Word shouted when trying to end a mission
- Mission-stopping command
- End early
- Cancel, at NASA
- Cancel a launch
- Cancel, as a mission
More clues leading to the result NIX
- Veto
- Put the kibosh on
- Refuse to allow
- "No way!"
- Cancel
- Strike from the record
- Shoot down
- Give the thumbs-down to
- Reject
- Turn thumbs-down on
More clues leading to the result XOUT
- Cancel
- Delete
- Eliminate, in a way
- Obliterate
- Strike off a list
- Line through
- Cross off
- Delete, in a way
- Draw a cross over
- Eradicate
More clues leading to the result DELETE
- Free up space, in a way
- Remove
- Cancel
- Computer key
- Rubout
- Get rid of
- Remove a file
- Strike out
- Strike
- Nullifying keystroke
More clues leading to the result VOID
- Cancel
- Abrogate
- Vacuum
- Null's pair-up
- Vacancy
- Empty space
- Canceled check word
- Of no matter
- Cancellation notice
- Uncashable
More clues leading to the result CALLOFF
More clues leading to the result REMIT
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 REPEAL
- Annul legally
- Undo, as an amendment
- Undo, in a way
- Invalidate, as a law
- Abrogate
- Take off the books
- Annul officially
- Declare null and void
- Overturn, as a decision
- Strike down, as legislation
More clues leading to the result SCRAP
More clues leading to the result RESCIND
More clues leading to the result EFFACE
- Wipe out
- Wipe away
- Rub out
- Do away with
- Expunge
- Obligerate
- Wipe out entirely
- Obliterate
- Wipe off completely
- Wear away, as a coin surface
More clues leading to the result WRITEOFF
- "Oops, the zero in '10' ended up on my desk blotter instead of the return—I guess that's a ___"
- Remove from the books, as an unpaid debt
- Deem unsalvageable
- Bad loan, to an accountant
- Tax deduction
- Cancel
- Cancellation of a debt
- Give up on
- Depreciate
More clues leading to the result ABOLISH
- Wipe out
- Get rid of
- Do away with
- Stamp out
- Put a stop to
- Eliminate
- Put an end to
- Void
- Make illegal
- Do away with.
More clues leading to the result MARKOUT
More clues leading to the result REVOKE
- Take back
- Dismantle
- Fail to follow suit
- Withdraw
- Annul
- Opposite of grant
- Annul, as a license
- Take away
- Bridge violation
- Take back, as a license
More clues leading to the result DISANNUL
More clues leading to the result SCRATCH
- Kentucky Derby cancellation
- Sniff partner
- Do a DJ's job
- Zip
- Pool infraction
- Pool error
- Cancel
- Deal with poison ivy, in a way
- Square one
- Pool problem
More clues leading to the result KILL
- Stop a story
- Stop, as a newspaper story
- Veto
- Display total pwnage
- Leave an audience in the aisles, say
- Cancel, as an article
- Eat the last of
- Dispatch
- Excel at standup comedy
- Unreturnable smash
More clues leading to the result VOIDOUT
More clues leading to the result OBLITERATE
- Render undecipherable
- Remove all traces of.
- Erase.
- Cancel
- Expunge
- Sweep away
- Wipe out
- Blow to pieces
- Remove from the face of the earth
- Completely destroy
More clues leading to the result DROP
- What you wait for the other shoe to do
- Cease to consider
- Discontinue
- Let fall
- Night deposit
- Knock down
- Pine Bros. unit
- __ leaf table
- Plummet
- Stop doing