The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word NUT , but the solution may also be LOON which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Crackpot crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NUT | 47 % | 3 |
| LOON | 20 % | 4 |
| LUNATIC | 7 % | 7 |
| DINGDONG | 4 % | 8 |
| NUTJOB | 4 % | 6 |
| KOOK | 4 % | 4 |
| MANIAC | 2 % | 6 |
| WEIRDO | 2 % | 6 |
| KOOKY | 2 % | 5 |
| NUTSO | 2 % | 5 |
| CUCKOO | 2 % | 6 |
| NUTCASE | 2 % | 7 |
Why may LOON be the right solution?
"Crackpot" is a term used to describe someone who is considered eccentric or crazy. "Loon" is a slang term for a crazy or eccentric person, making it a fitting answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Crackpot
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- nutcase
- crank
- fruitcake
- screwball
- nut
- wacko
- lunatic
- psycho
- crazy
- insane
- madman
- kook
Crossword Answer definitions
NUT noun- A hard-shelled seed.
- A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
- A crazy person.
- The head.
- Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- An extravagantly fashionable young man.
- (chiefly plural) A testicle.
- Semen, ejaculate.
- Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen
- An extreme enthusiast.
- A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts.
- The tumbler of a gunlock.
- A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
- To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- (mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
- No.
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 NUT
- Bread or butter ender
- Cashew
- Off-the-wall guy
- Screwball
- Brazil or pecan
- Chest or dough finisher
- Hazel, for one
- Flake
- Litchi or flake
- Macadamia, for one
More clues leading to the result LOON
- Diving bird
- Guard of the Nibelung treasure
- Minnesota state bird
- Golden Pond bird
- Crazy fowl
- "Crazy" bird
- Complete nut
- Fish-eating bird
- Web-footed bird
- Canadian coin bird
More clues leading to the result LUNATIC
- __ fringe (extremists)
- Wack job
- Crackpot
- ___ fringe (extremists)
- Kook
- Wacko
- __ fringe: fanatical extremists
- Nut
- Recklessly foolish
- Madman.
More clues leading to the result DINGDONG
- "____ , the witch is dead..."
- Door opener?
- "Who's there?" preceder
- Bell sound
- Visitor's first attempt
- Doorbell sound
- Ripsnorting, as a fight.
- Bell sound.
- Ringing sound
- Sound from a tower
More clues leading to the result NUTJOB
More clues leading to the result KOOK
More clues leading to the result MANIAC
- Zealot
- "Flashdance" song nominated for an Academy Award
- Fan, and then some
- Rabid enthusiast
- Psycho
- Super-fan
- Reckless fool
- Raving one
- Extreme zealot
- "Flashdance" hit
More clues leading to the result WEIRDO
More clues leading to the result KOOKY
More clues leading to the result NUTSO
More clues leading to the result CUCKOO
- Bananas
- Bird with an onomatopoeic name
- Bird in a clock
- Long-tailed bird
- Foolish
- Feature of some clocks
- Buggy
- Bird.
- Clock feature.
- Kind of clock.