The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DRAT , but the solution may also be BAH! which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
"Curses!" crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DRAT | 28 % | 4 |
| DAMNS | 16 % | 5 |
| BANES | 9 % | 5 |
| OATHS | 8 % | 5 |
| OHNO | 7 % | 4 |
| DANG | 5 % | 4 |
| RATS | 4 % | 4 |
| ANATHEMAS | 3 % | 9 |
| BAH | 3 % | 3 |
| IMPRECATES | 2 % | 10 |
| DRAT! | 2 % | 5 |
| DARN | 1 % | 4 |
| HEXES | 1 % | 5 |
| BAH! | 1 % | 4 |
| SCOURGES | 1 % | 8 |
| NERTS | 1 % | 5 |
| DRATIT | 1 % | 6 |
| FIE | 1 % | 3 |
| POXES | 1 % | 5 |
| SWEARS | 1 % | 6 |
| JINXES | 1 % | 6 |
Why may DRAT be the right solution?
The answer "DRAT!" fits the clue "Curses!" because it is a common exclamation used to express frustration or annoyance.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: "Curses!"
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
DRAT verb- To damn or curse.
- Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.
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 DRAT
- "Curses!"
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- "Phooey!"
- "Shoot!"
- Mild expletive
- "Doggone it!"
- Cartoon expletive
- Darn it!
- Shucks!
- Expression of annoyance
More clues leading to the result DAMNS
- Denounces
- Sends to perdition
- Condemns
- Curses
- Criticizes harshly
- Puts a curse on
- Censures
- __ with faint praise
- Gives hell to
- Condemns.
More clues leading to the result BANES
- Deadly poisons
- Bugaboos
- Causes of ruin
- Ruins
- Curses
- Harmful influences
- Anathemas
- Thorns in one's side
- Ruinations
- They lead to ruin
More clues leading to the result OATHS
- Promises
- Solemn pledges
- Don't lie under them
- Cusswords
- Solemn sayings
- Promises crop around height (5)
- Blasphemous terms
- Blue utterances
- Solemn vows
- Unprintable outbursts
More clues leading to the result OHNO
- "This can't be!"
- Follows an accident
- Words of dismay
- "Sakes alive!"
- "Say it ain't so!"
- Rats!
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "Dammit all!"
- Speed skating gold medalist
- "Can't be..."
More clues leading to the result DANG
- "Durn it!"
- "Aw, shoot"
- "Confound it!"
- "Oh Lawd!"
- "Shoot!"
- "Doggone!"
- "Goldurn it!"
- Roger Miller expletive
- "The Far Side" expletive
- Mild expletive
More clues leading to the result RATS
- "Doggone!"
- Charlie Brown expletive
- Pied Piper's followers
- They leave the sinking ship
- "Darn!"
- Charlie Brown's expletive
- Informers
- Researcher's supply, perhaps
- "Oh, drat!"
- Charlie Brown's expression
More clues leading to the result ANATHEMAS
More clues leading to the result BAH
- Cry to Cratchit
- Dickensian epithet
- Pooh-__
- Scrooge's retort
- ___ Humbug
- Scrooge's favorite reply
- Ebenezer's epithet
- Grouch's word
- Scrooge's oath
- "Phooey!"
More clues leading to the result IMPRECATES
More clues leading to the result DRAT!
More clues leading to the result DARN
- Fix
- Repair a stocking
- Repair socks
- Do mending
- Fix a hole
- Word said while snapping fingers
- Phooey
- Sock-mender's oath?
- "Well, heck!"
- "Fiddlesticks!"
More clues leading to the result HEXES
- Puts a spell on
- Witches' work
- Bad spells
- Casts a spell on
- Puts a jinx on
- Whammies
- Black-magic conjurations
- Works black magic on
- Spells
- Casts a spell upon
More clues leading to the result BAH!
More clues leading to the result SCOURGES
- Curses
- Causes of woe
- They cause a lot of trouble
- Calamity causes
- Flogs
- See 13-Down
- Burmese pythons in the Everglades, e.g.
- Plagues
More clues leading to the result NERTS
- "Phooey!"
- "Fug!"
- Old fashioned outburst
- Slangy refusal
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- "Fudge!"
- "Drat!"
- Mild oath
- "Nonsense!"
- Old-fashioned outburst
More clues leading to the result DRATIT
More clues leading to the result FIE
- Sound of disapproval
- "Phooey!"
- Exclamation of disgust
- Expression of disapproval
- Old-time oath
- "For shame!"
- "For shame"
- "Fee ___ foe fum"
- "Thou pribbling hasty-witted moldwarp!"
- "Tsk, tsk," old-style
More clues leading to the result POXES
More clues leading to the result SWEARS
- Speaks indelicately
- Speaks with one's hand up, perhaps
- Uses indelicate language
- Vows
- Blasphemes
- Utters an oath
- Makes an oath?
- Promises
- Takes an oath
- States under oath