The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LIMIT , but the solution may also be REININ which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).
Curtail crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LIMIT | 24 % | 5 |
| ELIDE | 12 % | 5 |
| CLIP | 10 % | 4 |
| STEM | 10 % | 4 |
| ABRIDGE | 7 % | 7 |
| RETRENCH | 5 % | 8 |
| TRIM | 5 % | 4 |
| TRUNCATE | 5 % | 8 |
| PARE | 5 % | 4 |
| WATERDOWN | 2 % | 9 |
| SHORTEN | 2 % | 7 |
| DOCK | 2 % | 4 |
| CUT | 2 % | 3 |
| HAMPER | 2 % | 6 |
| SLASH | 2 % | 5 |
| CURB | 2 % | 4 |
| REININ | 2 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Curtail
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cut short
- restrict
- cut back
- clip
- curb
- abridge
- shorten
- lower
- shrink
- downsize
- suppress
- confine
Crossword Answer definitions
LIMIT noun- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The space or thing defined by limits.
- That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- Being a fixed limit game.
- To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- To have a limit in a particular set.
- To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
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 LIMIT
- "25 words or less," e.g.
- Border line
- Boundary
- Ceiling
- Demarcate
- Restrict
- Maximum bet
- 55 miles an hour, maybe
- Cutoff
- Hold in check
More clues leading to the result ELIDE
- Omit
- Omit out of consideration
- Make an omission
- Say "G'day" or "Go 'way"
- Say 'ere or 'ead
- Skip over
- Slip over
- Slur over
- Omit, in speech
- Leave out
More clues leading to the result CLIP
- Brooch
- What you do with coupons
- __-on tie
- Bit of film
- Hair holder
- Kind of joint
- Shorten
- Type of board
- Paper fastener
- Shear off
More clues leading to the result STEM
- Derive from
- Bud supporter
- Flower holder
- Pipe part
- Stern's other end?
- Watch part
- Wine glass feature
- Wine glass part
- Bloom supporter
- Check
More clues leading to the result ABRIDGE
- Condense, as a book
- Cut down
- Make a long story short
- Cut
- Reduce in scope
- Reduce in volume?
- Shorten, as a reference
- Reduce, as a text
- Shorten
- Condense
More clues leading to the result RETRENCH
More clues leading to the result TRIM
- Lean
- Shaping at the salon
- Short clip
- Svelte
- Use clippers
- Cut corners
- Touch up, as this puzzle's subject does to a beard (See STEPS)
- In shape
- A little off?
- Athletic
More clues leading to the result TRUNCATE
More clues leading to the result PARE
- Cut (down), as expenses
- Get the carrots ready
- Cut back
- Trim
- Whittle down
- Fix apples for a pie
- Skin
- Trim down
- Remove the skin of
- Cut the skin from
More clues leading to the result WATERDOWN
More clues leading to the result SHORTEN
More clues leading to the result DOCK
- Berth
- Berth place
- Plug your smartphone into your computer
- Marina
- Launch site
- Abridge
- Wharf
- Get into a slip
- Walk on water?
- Line of icons on a Mac screen
More clues leading to the result CUT
- Kick off the team
- "This take is garbage"
- Song, as it were
- Sporting a six-pack, say
- Director's cry
- Share
- "Stop shooting!"
- Edit menu word
- Movie release
- Slice
More clues leading to the result HAMPER
- Frustrate
- Basket in the bathroom
- Big basket
- Impede, as progress
- Picnic basket
- Get in the way of
- Laundry convenience
- Dirty-laundry holder
- Picnic aid.
- Laundry holder
More clues leading to the result SLASH
- Virgule
- Incision
- What may follow "com"
- Drastically reduce, as prices
- Not just trim
- Cut drastically
- Guns N' Roses member
- Guitarist with a signature top hat
- Reduce, as prices
- Commit a hockey foul
More clues leading to the result CURB
- Gutter part
- Parking place
- Stop
- Rein in
- Street edging
- Restrain
- Put limits on
- Block boundary
- Parking meter's location
- Inhibit