Answer to "Cease and desist" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word STOP which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2019.

Cease and desist crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
STOP	50 %	4
DONT	19 %	4
STOPIT	19 %	6
ENOUGH	6 %	6
CANIT	6 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cease and desist

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• desist
• cease
• surcease
• stop
• come to a stop
• put a stop to
• halt
• bring an end to
• cese
• arrest
• cess
• aband

Crossword Answer definitions

STOP noun

1. A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
2. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
3. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
4. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
5. A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
6. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
7. A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
8. One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
9. A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
10. The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
11. A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
12. A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
13. An f-stop.
14. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
15. A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

STOP verb

1. To cease moving.
2. To not continue.
3. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
4. To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
5. To cause (something) to come to an end.
6. To close or block an opening.
7. (often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
8. To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
9. To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
10. To punctuate.
11. To make fast; to stopper.

STOP noun

1. A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

STOP adjective

1. Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

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 STOP

• "__ the music!"
• Depot
• Halt
• Octagon message
• Organ piece
• Railroad-crossing word
• Scrub a mission
• Cease movement
• Discontinue
• Glottal __

More clues leading to the result DONT

• No-no word
• Parent's warning
• Prohibition
• "Dead Men ___ Wear Plaid"
• "___ Go Near the Water"
• Negative order
• Quit it!
• Terse warning
• "___ Worry, Be Happy"
• Word of warning

More clues leading to the result STOPIT

• Words to a child
• Cut that out!
• "Cut that out!"
• "Quit!"
• "Enough!"
• "Now cut that out!"
• "Don't do that!"
• "Uncle!"
• "Enough already!"
• "That's enough!"

More clues leading to the result ENOUGH

• "I quit!"
• "WHEN!"
• Sufficient
• "I've had it!"
• Ample amount
• "Cease and desist!"
• Meeting the quota
• Just the right amount
• "Stop!"
• Adequate

More clues leading to the result CANIT

• "STFU!"
• Cease and desist
• "Shut up!"
• "Shut the heck up!"
• "Hush!"
• "Hush up!"
• "Quiet!"
• "Stop that!"
• "Oh, shut up!"
• "Not another word!"