The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BANE , but the solution may also be HEX which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Curse crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BANE | 23 % | 4 |
| POX | 14 % | 3 |
| HEX | 14 % | 3 |
| OATH | 12 % | 4 |
| SWEARAT | 10 % | 7 |
| ANATHEMA | 6 % | 8 |
| JINX | 5 % | 4 |
| DAMN | 5 % | 4 |
| SWEAR | 4 % | 5 |
| EXECRATE | 2 % | 8 |
| EVILEYE | 1 % | 7 |
| IMPRECATE | 1 % | 9 |
| USEDIRTYWORDS | 1 % | 13 |
| DOOM | 1 % | 4 |
| HURLANEPITHET | 1 % | 13 |
| MALEDICTION | 1 % | 11 |
| REVILE | 1 % | 6 |
Why may HEX be the right solution?
The word "curse" can be synonymous with "hex," which means to cast a spell or curse on someone.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Curse
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- maledict
- imprecate
- execration
- beshrew
- bedamn
- jinx
- curse word
- swearing
- cuss
- blaspheme
- swearword
- bane
Crossword Answer definitions
BANE noun- A cause of misery or death.
- Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
- A killer, murderer, slayer.
- Destruction; death.
- A disease of sheep.
- To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
- To be the bane of.
- Bone
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 BANE
- Deadly poison
- Ruination
- Thorn in one's side
- Canker
- Cause of ruination
- Curse
- Opposite of 5D
- Source of ruin
- Ruin
- Bête noire
More clues leading to the result POX
- Chicken ___ (childhood disease)
- Chicken flu?
- Red spot
- Plague
- "A ___ on thee!"
- Plague or curse
- "A ___ upon thee!"
- Curse
- Old curse
- Chicken ___ (childhood affliction)
More clues leading to the result HEX
- Do voodoo
- Bad spell
- Bad spelling?
- Bewitch
- Put a spell on someone
- Put under a spell
- Spell
- Wizard's spell
- Whammy
- Put a spell on
More clues leading to the result OATH
- Formal declaration
- Four-letter word
- Hippocratic __
- Inauguration words
- Courtroom promise
- Declaration
- Promise to tell the truth
- Swear words?
- Boy Scout recitation
- Curse
More clues leading to the result SWEARAT
- Call somebody a "@$%*!"
- Vituperate
- Shower curses on
- Verbally abuse
- Curse
- Have choice words for
- Call names
- Castigate
- Dress down like a sailor?
- Berate profanely
More clues leading to the result ANATHEMA
- Reviled one
- Yankees, to Red Sox fans
- Detested thing
- Something detested
- It's an abomination
- Curse
- Minnesota Vikings, to Packers fans
- Detested person or thing
- Despised thing or person
- Object of loathing
More clues leading to the result JINX
- Put a hex on
- Luck repellent?
- Bad luck charm?
- Undesirable casino companion
- Bring bad luck to
- Bringer of bad luck
- Black cat, to some
- Give bad luck to
- Good luck charm's opposite
- Bad luck bringer
More clues leading to the result DAMN
- Butler's expletive
- "__ Yankees"
- Rhett's last word
- Last word from Rhett
- With 53-Across, curse a deodorant?
- Curse
- __ Yankees
- Faintly praise?
- Censure
- Butler's last word
More clues leading to the result SWEAR
- Use four-letter words
- Take an oath
- Affirm
- Speak indelicately
- Pinky ___
- Talk a blue streak?
- Use cusswords
- Take a vow
- Say "$#!*%!"
- Blaspheme
More clues leading to the result EXECRATE
More clues leading to the result EVILEYE
- Whammy
- Haunting look
- Glance to be avoided
- Bad luck look
- Whammy look
- Look that supposedly harms
- Harmful look
- Horseshoe's antithesis
- Look that inflicts injury, supposedly
- Harm-inducing glance, supposedly
More clues leading to the result IMPRECATE
More clues leading to the result USEDIRTYWORDS
More clues leading to the result DOOM
- Tragic end
- Gloom's partner
- Partner of gloom
- Tragic fate
- Inevitable ruin
- Bad ending
- Debbie Downer's prediction
- Gloom partner
- Bad outlook
- Banish forever