The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SNIP , but the solution may also be AXE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Cut crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNIP | 13 % | 4 |
| SEVER | 8 % | 5 |
| SLIT | 7 % | 4 |
| SAWN | 6 % | 4 |
| HEWN | 6 % | 4 |
| SHEAR | 4 % | 5 |
| GASH | 4 % | 4 |
| MOWN | 4 % | 4 |
| LOP | 4 % | 3 |
| SAWED | 3 % | 5 |
| MOW | 3 % | 3 |
| HEW | 2 % | 3 |
| SHORN | 2 % | 5 |
| OMIT | 2 % | 4 |
| AXED | 2 % | 4 |
| SHARE | 2 % | 5 |
| HEWED | 2 % | 5 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| AXE | 1 % | 3 |
| PARE | 1 % | 4 |
| DELETE | 1 % | 6 |
| SCISSOR | 1 % | 7 |
| SHEARED | 1 % | 7 |
| SEVERED | 1 % | 7 |
| DECREASE | 1 % | 8 |
| ABRIDGE | 1 % | 7 |
| SLICE | 1 % | 5 |
| SLICED | 1 % | 6 |
| SAW | 1 % | 3 |
| SLASHED | 1 % | 7 |
| DELE | 1 % | 4 |
| SHORTEN | 1 % | 7 |
| INCISE | 1 % | 6 |
| GASHED | 1 % | 6 |
| EDITOUT | 1 % | 7 |
| CARVE | 1 % | 5 |
| CLIP | 1 % | 4 |
| LOPPED | 0 % | 6 |
| MOWED | 0 % | 5 |
| CROP | 0 % | 4 |
| SNEE | 0 % | 4 |
| TRIM | 0 % | 4 |
| SNIPPED | 0 % | 7 |
| LESION | 0 % | 6 |
| SHORTENED | 0 % | 9 |
| INCISION | 0 % | 8 |
| CHOP | 0 % | 4 |
| SKIP | 0 % | 4 |
| REDUCE | 0 % | 6 |
| HACK | 0 % | 4 |
| SLICEDINTO | 0 % | 10 |
| REAP | 0 % | 4 |
| FELLED | 0 % | 6 |
| DOCKED | 0 % | 6 |
| EDITEDOUT | 0 % | 9 |
| STOP | 0 % | 4 |
| TAKE | 0 % | 4 |
| ABRIDGED | 0 % | 8 |
| DILUTE | 0 % | 6 |
| REDUCED | 0 % | 7 |
| SHAVE | 0 % | 5 |
| NICK | 0 % | 4 |
| ETCH | 0 % | 4 |
| KNIFE | 0 % | 5 |
| DICED | 0 % | 5 |
| STAB | 0 % | 4 |
| ENGRAVE | 0 % | 7 |
| PRUNE | 0 % | 5 |
| PARED | 0 % | 5 |
| LESSENED | 0 % | 8 |
Why may AXE be the right solution?
"Cut" is a verb often associated with using an axe to chop or sever something, making "AXE" the fitting answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- trimmed
- slashed
- chopped
- sliced
- trim
- slash
- reduce
- slice
- reduced
- split
- shorten
- severed
Crossword Answer definitions
SNIP noun- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- (definite, the snip) A vasectomy.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- An impertinent or mischievous person.
- A share or portion; a snack.
- A tailor.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To circumcise.
- To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
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 SNIP
- Cut coupons
- Do a tonsorial task
- Impertinent one
- Quick cut
- Do some coupon-cutting
- Follow the dotted line, perhaps
- Small cut
- Barber's cut
- Cut into
- Get coupons
More clues leading to the result SEVER
More clues leading to the result SLIT
More clues leading to the result SAWN
- Cut into pieces
- Sliced into sheets
- Like some women in magic acts
- Cut, as two-by-fours
- Cut, as logs
- Like lumber in a mill
- Cut, as lumber
- Previously cut
- Cut, as wood
- Cut in half, as a log
More clues leading to the result HEWN
- Felled
- Felled, as with an axe
- Cut down
- Axed
- Chopped (down)
- Cut with an ax
- Hatcheted
- Shaped with an ax
- Cut, as timber
- Chopped down
More clues leading to the result SHEAR
More clues leading to the result GASH
- Deep cut
- Possible result of a sword fight
- Open wound
- Injury
- Long cut
- Nasty cut
- Stitches target
- Knife mark
- Knife wound
- Dicer's injury
More clues leading to the result MOWN
- Freshly cut, as a lawn
- Cut
- Cut with a scythe
- Sheared
- "... like rain upon the ___ grass" (Psalms)
- Cut, as grass
- Like a trim lawn
- Cut, as blades
- Like fairways, fairly often
- Cut, as a lawn
More clues leading to the result LOP
- Cut off
- Remove some branches
- Trim
- Remove, as branches
- Be a branch manager?
- Chop (off)
- Cut (off)
- Cut (off), as branches
- Do some landscaping work, say
- Do some topiary
More clues leading to the result SAWED
- Cut the boards
- Cut
- Cut wood
- Made across-the-board cuts?
- Chopped (off)
- ___-off shotgun
- Put teeth to work
- Cut lumber
- Applied teeth to
- Worked with lumber
More clues leading to the result MOW
- Cut grass
- Ride a Deere
- Summer chore
- Decimate, with "down"
- Do a chore in the suburbs
- Do the lawn
- Create an 85 Across
- Cut (down)
- Do some groundskeeping
- Do some landscaping
More clues leading to the result HEW
- Take an ax to
- Axe a tree
- Fell
- Onetime Cabinet dept.
- Shape with an axe
- Cut off
- Cut with an axe
- Fell by chopping
- Chop down
- Chop off
More clues leading to the result SHORN
- Clipped
- Sheared
- Cut off
- De-wooled
- Fleeced
- Clipped, as sheep
- Cut
- Trimmed of wool
- Relieved of wool
- Back from the barber
More clues leading to the result OMIT
More clues leading to the result AXED
More clues leading to the result SHARE
- Equitable portion
- Stock holding
- Allotment
- Stock unit
- Day care word
- Go Dutch
- Don't be selfish
- Show communal spirit
- Stock amount
- Don't hoard
More clues leading to the result HEWED
- Put an ax to
- Shaped with an axe
- Chopped with an ax
- Cut with an ax
- Felled
- Cut down
- Felled with an ax
- Chopped down
- Conformed
- Took down
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 AXE
- Boot out
- Bunyan's tool
- Cut
- Fire
- Fireman's tool
- Give the boot
- Paul Bunyan's tool
- Show the door to
- Chop
- Cleaver
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 DELETE
- Free up space, in a way
- Remove
- Cancel
- Computer key
- Rubout
- Get rid of
- Remove a file
- Strike out
- Strike
- Nullifying keystroke
More clues leading to the result SCISSOR
- ___ Sisters
- Kind of kick
- Shear
- Snip
- Move crisply back and forth, as one's legs
- Clip, as a coupon
- Cut, as coupons
- Clip out, as a coupon
- Clip
- Cut with shears
More clues leading to the result SHEARED
- Clipped a sheep
- Shaved sheep
- Buzzed, say
- Cut like a wool coat
- Cut short
- Clipped, as wool
- Did some wool gathering
- Cut off, as wool
- Cut
- Gathered wool
More clues leading to the result SEVERED
- Cut off
- Separated, as with a knife
- Broke off, as relations
- Cut
- Cloven
- Disjoined.
- Sundered.
- Dissociated.
- Broken.
- Cut.
More clues leading to the result DECREASE
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 SLICE
- Bread unit
- Duffer's problem
- Pizzeria order
- Piece of the pie
- Pizza piece
- Cake serving
- Pizza unit
- Toast serving
- Links problem, perhaps
- It's a piece of cake
More clues leading to the result SLICED
- Cut the baloney
- Diced's companions
- Prepared tomatoes
- Didn't drive well
- Drove into the woods, perhaps
- Chopped
- Cut
- Like most deli meat
- Prepared eggplant for moussaka
- Processed prosciutto
More clues leading to the result SAW
- Byword
- Observed
- __ wood (snore)
- __-toothed (jagged)
- Circular, for one
- Adage
- Trite saying
- Ice sculptor's need
- Wood cutter
- Gruesome franchise of 2004-2010
More clues leading to the result SLASHED
- Like drastically reduced prices
- Cut severely
- Reduced sharply.
- Cut.
- Cut, as prices.
- Marked with a sweeping stroke.
- Cut prices drastically
- Cut
- Drastically reduced
- Greatly reduced
More clues leading to the result DELE
- Strike out
- Editor's remark
- Strike out, as copy
- Take out
- Mark of omission
- Takeout sign?
- Editor's mark
- Request to remove from a galley
- Takeout order?
- Proofer's word
More clues leading to the result SHORTEN
More clues leading to the result INCISE
- Carve
- Engrave
- Write by carving
- Cut into
- Cut
- Cut with a scalpel
- Engrave.
- Cut into.
- Carve into.
- Inscribe by carving.
More clues leading to the result GASHED
More clues leading to the result EDITOUT
- Censor
- Bleep
- Delete
- Bleep, say
- Remove from text
- Remove from a manuscript
- Remove from the text
- Cut
- Blue pencil
- Delete text
More clues leading to the result CARVE
- Decorate by cutting and shaping
- Do holiday duty
- Do a holiday chore
- Whittle
- Play host at Thanksgiving
- Slice
- Make scrimshaw
- Whittle or chisel
- What a Thanksgiving guest of honor might do
- Start on the Thanksgiving turkey
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 LOPPED
More clues leading to the result MOWED
- Spiffed up the outfield
- Cut, as a lawn
- Tended to the fairway
- Shortened blades
- Did the lawn
- Cut grass
- Cut blades?
- Cut the grass
- Trimmed a fairway
- Used blades on blades
More clues leading to the result CROP
- Harvest haul
- Rider's whip
- Trim
- Farmer's concern
- Riding whip
- Trim a hedge or photograph
- Jockey's whip
- __-duster (kind of airplane)
- Cut short
- Cut, as an ex-friend from a picture
More clues leading to the result SNEE
- Cut, old-style
- Fighting knife of old
- Cornell's ___ Hall
- Dagger
- Dagger of old
- Old dagger
- Snick's partner
- Snicker ____
- Knife
- Snick-or-___
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 SNIPPED
- Cut with small strokes
- Made quick scissor cuts
- Clipped.
- Used shears.
- Cut.
- Cut
- Clipped
- Cut, as roses
- Did salon work
- Made cuts
More clues leading to the result LESION
More clues leading to the result SHORTENED
More clues leading to the result INCISION
More clues leading to the result CHOP
- Karate move
- ___ Suey
- Karate blow
- Pork cut
- Recipe instruction
- Use a hatchet
- Hack
- Hew
- Shift or veer, as wind
- Karate belt?
More clues leading to the result SKIP
- Fail to include
- Leave quickly
- LP problem
- Pass over
- Omit
- Ditch, as class
- Go past
- Green card in a party game
- Ignore, as pre-roll ads
- Uno card
More clues leading to the result REDUCE
- Minimize
- Cut down to size
- Knock off
- Slim down
- Boil down
- Discount
- Be a good loser?
- Diet
- Turn down
- Lower in degree
More clues leading to the result HACK
- Cabdriver
- Potboiler specialist
- All-thumbs author
- Catarrh symptom
- Disdained author
- Mediocre writer
- Meter man?
- Cope with, slangily
- Tabloid reporter, to some
- Maligned writer
More clues leading to the result SLICEDINTO
More clues leading to the result REAP
- Harvest
- Use a sickle
- Fall job
- Gain through effort
- Gardening spoonerism: Weed it and _____
- Bring in
- Gather
- "You're going to ___ just what you sow" (Lou Reed lyric)
- Bring in the sheaves
- Bring in by the bushel
More clues leading to the result FELLED
More clues leading to the result DOCKED
More clues leading to the result EDITEDOUT
More clues leading to the result STOP
- "__ the music!"
- Depot
- Halt
- Octagon message
- Organ piece
- Railroad-crossing word
- Scrub a mission
- Cease movement
- Discontinue
- Glottal __
More clues leading to the result TAKE
- On the ____ (accepting bribes)
- Gate receipts
- Give's partner
- Ingest, as medicine
- "____this Job and Shove It"
- "___my wife. Please."
- Accept
- Accept uncomplainingly
- Pickings
- On the __ (accepting bribes)
More clues leading to the result ABRIDGED
- Condensed (as text)
- Condensed book
- Like many paperback dictionaries
- Like some audio books
- Not full-length
- Like many Reader's Digest articles
- Not all there
- Condensed.
- Like some dictionaries
- Like pocket dictionaries
More clues leading to the result DILUTE
- Add tonic, maybe
- Cut, in a way
- Thin with water
- Water down
- Add water to
- Make fainter, as a color
- Weaken with water
- Weaken
- Make weaker
- Make thinner
More clues leading to the result REDUCED
- Lost weight
- On sale
- Sign at a sale
- Lighter
- Cut down
- Marked down.
- Slimmed.
- Store sign.
- Cut
- Like some sentences and fat
More clues leading to the result SHAVE
- Pare
- Use a razor
- Tonsorial task
- Lose one's shadow?
- Hairy experience
- Clear the stubble
- Barbershop service
- Get rid of a five o'clock shadow
- Get rid of the Fu Manchu
- Barber's service
More clues leading to the result NICK
- Shaving cut
- Shaving mishap
- Cannon of "America's Got Talent"
- One of the Jonas Brothers
- Slightly slice
- Barbershop mishap
- Just barely hit
- Nolte of "Lorenzo's Oil"
- Shaving accident
- Sign of a close shave?
More clues leading to the result ETCH
- Draw with acid
- Fix in the mind
- Make an aquatint
- Put on glass
- Cut glass
- Design like Durer
- Design on glass
- Do an aquatint
- Engrave with acid
- __ a Sketch
More clues leading to the result KNIFE
- Take a stab at
- Leatherman tool
- Mack of song
- Stiletto
- "Clue" weapon
- Prop for Crocodile Dundee
- It may be drawn to scale?
- Bowie's weapon
- Cutler's product
- Part of a place setting
More clues leading to the result DICED
- Chopped into little cubes
- In little squares
- Used a processor
- Cut in tiny cubes
- Cut into cubes
- Chopped finely
- Gambled at a table
- Chopped up
- Chopped into bits
- Took a chance
More clues leading to the result STAB
- Attempt
- Pierce
- Spear
- Wild guess
- Brief attempt
- Grab with a fork
- Make a try at
- Try
- Poke with a pick
- Stick with a shiv, say
More clues leading to the result ENGRAVE
- Cut
- Make a lasting impression
- Write on a ring, e.g.
- Inscribe
- Write on a ring
- Personalize, at the jeweler's
- Personalize at the jeweler's
- Impress deeply?
- Make an impression on?
- Impress deeply
More clues leading to the result PRUNE
- Cut back
- Do a gardening job
- Trim a limb
- Do some topiary
- Cut back in the garden
- Trim
- Trim greenery
- Stewed fruit
- Former plum?
- Kind of whip
More clues leading to the result PARED
- Trimmed
- Peeled potatoes
- Shortened
- Skinned
- Whittled (down)
- Whittled down
- Decreased gradually, with "down"
- Gradually trimmed (down)
- Removed rind
- Cut back, as expenses