The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word RAP , but the solution may also be BASH which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in USA Today).
Criticize crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RAP | 18 % | 3 |
| SLAM | 14 % | 4 |
| RIP | 12 % | 3 |
| PAN | 11 % | 3 |
| KNOCK | 6 % | 5 |
| CAVIL | 5 % | 5 |
| CARP | 5 % | 4 |
| SNIPEAT | 4 % | 7 |
| ATTACK | 2 % | 6 |
| BASH | 2 % | 4 |
| IMPUGN | 2 % | 6 |
| SNIPE | 2 % | 5 |
| TAKEASWIPEAT | 2 % | 12 |
| ROAST | 2 % | 5 |
| RUNDOWN | 1 % | 7 |
| LEANON | 1 % | 6 |
| TAKETOTASK | 1 % | 10 |
| PICKAPART | 1 % | 9 |
| ASSAIL | 1 % | 6 |
| DIS | 1 % | 3 |
| SAILINTO | 1 % | 8 |
| FAULT | 1 % | 5 |
| FINDFAULT | 1 % | 9 |
| BLAME | 1 % | 5 |
| BLAST | 1 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Criticize
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- criticise
- pick apart
- critical
- critique
- accuse
- blame
- censure
- denounce
- condemn
- decry
- reprimand
- reproach
Crossword Answer definitions
RAP noun- A sharp blow with something hard.
- Blame for something.
- A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- A casual talk.
- Rap music.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
- An appraisal.
- A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
- To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
- To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
- A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
- Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- A whit; a jot.
- To seize and carry off.
- To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
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 RAP
- Criminal charge
- Pop music style
- Snoop Doggy Dogg's music
- Certain mod music
- Gangsta __
- Hammer's genre
- Kind of sheet or session
- Knock
- Music genre
- Chat with Hammer
More clues leading to the result SLAM
- Bridge coup
- Bridge triumph
- Criticize harshly
- Harsh criticism
- Shut forcefully
- Shut hard
- __-dunk
- Big name in basketball magazines
- Bridge feat
- Close a door with force
More clues leading to the result RIP
- Lacerate
- __-roaring
- Come apart
- Cut apart
- En-graved letters?
- __ off (steal)
- Run in a stocking, e.g.
- Final sentiment, initially
- Torn from Texas
- ___-roaring start?
More clues leading to the result PAN
- Give one star to
- God often pictured with pipes
- Forty-niners tool
- Move while filming
- Play critic
- Scathing review
- Rotate the camera
- Omelet-maker's need, unless you boil your omelets or cook them in the toaster I suppose
- Critically disdain
- Muffin tin, e.g.
More clues leading to the result KNOCK
- Engine sound
- Criticize
- Eschew the doorbell
- Give a rap
- Joke variety, when doubled
- Engine noise
- Sound at a séance
- Harbinger of company
- Bad-mouth
- Rap
More clues leading to the result CAVIL
- Trivial thing
- Find fault unnecessarily
- Be petty
- Nitpick
- Find fault
- Nitpick incessantly
- Raise frivolous objections
- Find fault with unnecessarily
- Criticize
- Split hairs
More clues leading to the result CARP
- Find fault in a disagreeable way
- Freshwater catch
- Pond fish
- Bottom feeder
- Food fish
- Freshwater fish
- Find fault
- Complain
- Complain, like a fish?
- Beef
More clues leading to the result SNIPEAT
- Attack anonymously
- Be short with
- Find fault with
- Subtly malign
- Attack like a marsh bird?
- Criticize sharply
- Castigate
- Get ugly with
- Cavil
- Criticize
More clues leading to the result ATTACK
More clues leading to the result BASH
- Big, exuberant party
- Wild party
- Wing-ding
- Forceful blow
- Big party
- Blowout
- Shindig
- Catered event
- Kegger
- Rager, e.g.
More clues leading to the result IMPUGN
- Assail with words
- Challenge in a way
- Throw mud at, figuratively
- Criticize
- Call into question
- Refute
- Cast doubt upon
- Attack by argument.
- Challenge as false.
- Attack as untrue.
More clues leading to the result SNIPE
- Bushwhack
- Make malicious remarks
- Marsh bird
- __ at (malign)
- Assail
- Game bird
- Shoot from above
- Take potshots
- Gossip maliciously
- Sandpiper kin
More clues leading to the result TAKEASWIPEAT
More clues leading to the result ROAST
- Insult, kiddingly
- Butcher shop choice
- Prepare coffee beans
- Certain Sunday dinner
- Dean Martin specialty
- Dis-honor?
- Recent Justin Bieber event
- Friars' gathering
- Honor with insults
- Dinner that may be tough to swallow for the guest of honor
More clues leading to the result RUNDOWN
- Criticize
- Quick summary
- Seedy
- Speak ill of
- Exhausted.
- Baseball play
- Decrepit
- Shabby
- Criticize point-after-point
- Seedy, and an apt description of a word hidden in 3-, 9-, 29- and 33-Down
More clues leading to the result LEANON
- Pressure, loan shark-style
- Seek support from
- Use a support
- Use for support
- Use as a crutch
- Pressure
- Strong-arm
- Coerce
- Get tough with
- Get support from
More clues leading to the result TAKETOTASK
More clues leading to the result PICKAPART
More clues leading to the result ASSAIL
More clues leading to the result DIS
- Belittle, in slang
- Put down, modern-style
- Treat without respect
- Trash
- Treat without respect, slangily
- Drive filler
- Bad-mouth, in the 'hood
- Put down, in the 'hood
- Insult at the center of this puzzle's long answers
- Bad-mouth
More clues leading to the result SAILINTO
More clues leading to the result FAULT
- Seismologist's concern
- Bad serve
- Responsibility
- Criticize
- Blame
- Tennis server's goof
- Quake spot
- Double ___
- Earthshaking matter?
- Seismological concern
More clues leading to the result FINDFAULT
More clues leading to the result BLAME
- Hold responsible
- Put the onus on
- Find fault with
- Scapegoat's burden
- Scapegoat's onus
- Point the finger at
- Accuse
- Culpability
- Do some finger-pointing
- Responsibility