The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CHAP , but the solution may also be DECODE which is one of the most recent solution (2018 in New York Times).
Crack, in a way crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
CHAP | 31 % | 4 |
DECODE | 31 % | 6 |
DECRYPT | 23 % | 7 |
DECIPHER | 8 % | 8 |
GOBALLISTIC | 8 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Crack, in a way
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- snap
- break
- burst
- check
- choo
- chop
- chopped
- clap
- cleave
- cleaved
- cleaving
- cleft
Crossword Answer definitions
CHAP noun- (obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- A customer, a buyer.
- A child.
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- A division; a breach, as in a party.
- A blow; a rap.
- Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- To strike, knock.
- (often in the plural) The jaw.
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
- (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a social or religious body.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A decretal epistle.
- A location or compartment.
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 CHAP
- Bloke
- Gent
- British gent
- Mate
- Companion
- Fellow
- Young fellow
- Break in the winter
- Crack in the winter
- Redden and split
More clues leading to the result DECODE
- Unscramble
- Crack, in a way
- Translate into English
- Crack a cryptogram, e.g.
- Read a cipher
- Translate, as a secret message
- Make understandable, in a way
- Make sense of
- Break down?
- Translate, in a way
More clues leading to the result DECRYPT
- Crack in the NSA
- Crack, in a way
- Break a code
- Solve the code
- Decode
- Translate from 42-Across
- Crack, as a code
More clues leading to the result DECIPHER
- Convert from code
- Make sense of
- Crack
- Do half of a cryptographer's job
- Convert, as code to plain text
- Solve
- Unravel, as a mystery
- Crack the code
- Figure out.
- Solve.