The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word INHUMANE , but the solution may also be MEAN Down 1 Some electric cars which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Cruel crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| INHUMANE | 23 % | 8 |
| MEAN | 16 % | 4 |
| INHUMAN | 10 % | 7 |
| HARSH | 10 % | 5 |
| RUTHLESS | 5 % | 8 |
| HEARTLESS | 5 % | 9 |
| PITILESS | 3 % | 8 |
| MERCILESS | 3 % | 9 |
| SADISTIC | 3 % | 8 |
| UNKIND | 3 % | 6 |
| COLDHEARTED | 2 % | 11 |
| EVIL | 2 % | 4 |
| IRON | 2 % | 4 |
| FELL | 2 % | 4 |
| MEAN Down 1 Some electric cars | 2 % | 30 |
| ABUSIVE | 2 % | 7 |
| CANNIBALIC | 2 % | 10 |
| BRUTAL | 2 % | 6 |
| IRONHANDED | 2 % | 10 |
| FIENDISH | 2 % | 8 |
| BRUTISH | 2 % | 7 |
| SADIC | 2 % | 5 |
Why may MEANDOWN1-SOME-ELECTRIC-CARS be the right solution?
The answer to "Cruel" is "MEAN" because "mean" is a synonym for cruel.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cruel
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- inhumane
- unkind
- heartless
- barbarous
- harsh
- brutal
- vicious
- hard
- rigorous
- savage
- fell
- roughshod
Crossword Answer definitions
INHUMANE adjective- Lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.
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 INHUMANE
- Cruel
- Hannibal Lecter-like
- Lacking compassion
- Barbarous
- Lacking kindness.
- Cruel.
- Hard-hearted.
- Heartless.
- Sadistic
- Barbaric
More clues leading to the result MEAN
- Average
- Cruel
- Intend
- Like football's Joe Greene
- Low-down and nasty
- Greenwich __ time
- Nasty
- __-spirited
- Low-down
- Downright nasty
More clues leading to the result INHUMAN
- Like a 46 Down
- More than cruel
- Worse than cruel
- Beastly
- Monstrous
- Cruel
- Barbaric
- Heartless
- Very, very cold
- Diabolical.
More clues leading to the result HARSH
- Severe
- Draconian
- Like many realities
- Abrasive
- Difficult on the ears
- Unduly severe
- Strict or stark
- Grating to the ear
- Far from lenient
- Unpleasantly severe
More clues leading to the result RUTHLESS
- Without compassion
- Cutthroat
- Cruel.
- Inexorable.
- Cruel
- Without pity
- Stopping at nothing
- Unfeeling
- Cold-blooded
- What the 1920s Yankees didn't want to be?
More clues leading to the result HEARTLESS
- Cruel.
- Cruel
- Unfeeling
- Unpitying
- Sending nary a note on Feb. 14?
- Cold-blooded
- Very cold
- Cruel Kanye song from '08?
More clues leading to the result PITILESS
More clues leading to the result MERCILESS
More clues leading to the result SADISTIC
- Like Hannibal Lecter, e.g.
- Extremely cruel
- Cruel
- With cruel tendencies.
- Vicious
- Really mean
- Callous to an extreme
- Enjoying the inflicting of pain
- Exceptionally cruel
- Uncommonly cruel
More clues leading to the result UNKIND
- Mean
- Cruel
- Pitiless
- Not nice at all
- Mean-spirited
- Meanspirited
- Harsh.
- Wanting in sympathy.
- Harsh
- Lacking consideration
More clues leading to the result COLDHEARTED
- Like the cruel meteorologist
- Unemotional, and a hint to the hidden word in the answers to starred clues
- Lacking compassion
- Lacking sympathy
- Merciless "M*A*S*H" medic, with 19-Across?
- Unaffected by emotion
- Cruel
More clues leading to the result EVIL
- Agatha Christie's "___ Under the Sun"
- Beyond bad
- Dark forces
- Doctor opposing Austin Powers
- Like Lucifer
- Like some spirits
- Mean business
- Satanic
- Sinister
- Wicked
More clues leading to the result IRON
- "The Man in the ___ Mask"
- Board appliance
- Curtain material, once?
- Hard rock group ___ Maiden
- Lonesome household appliance
- Mangle
- Press
- Spiff up the shirts
- Woods choice
- Word with curling or shooting
More clues leading to the result FELL
- Tumbled
- Toppled
- Character actor Norman
- Dove
- Collapsed
- Chop down
- Deadly, as a swoop
- Swoop's adjective
- Plummeted
- Cut down
More clues leading to the result MEAN Down 1 Some electric cars
More clues leading to the result ABUSIVE
- Mean
- Like invective
- Like diatribe
- Coarsely insulting, as language
- Injurious
- Like harsh language
- Not at all nurturing
- Mistreating
- Scurrilous.
- Using harsh words.
More clues leading to the result CANNIBALIC
More clues leading to the result BRUTAL
- Beastly
- More than just harsh
- Taxing
- Harsh-plus
- Merciless
- Painful, as honesty
- Awfully cruel
- Savage
- Savage.
- Cruel.
More clues leading to the result IRONHANDED
- Despotic
- Dictatorial
- Inflexible.
- Firm and rigorous.
- Strict and severe.
- Very strict.
- Like strict golfers?
- Cruel