The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PARE , but the solution may also be REDUCE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Cut back crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PARE | 40 % | 4 |
| PRUNE | 20 % | 5 |
| PARED | 10 % | 5 |
| PRUNED | 5 % | 6 |
| LESSENED | 4 % | 8 |
| TRIM | 4 % | 4 |
| SKIMP | 3 % | 5 |
| REDUCE | 3 % | 6 |
| LOP | 3 % | 3 |
| ECONOMIZE | 2 % | 9 |
| SCRIMP | 1 % | 6 |
| DIAL | 1 % | 4 |
| RETRENCH | 1 % | 8 |
| DOWNSIZED | 1 % | 9 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| LESSEN | 1 % | 6 |
| GEARDOWN | 1 % | 8 |
Why may REDUCE be the right solution?
"Cut back" is a phrase that means to reduce or decrease something. "Reduce" is a synonym for this phrase, making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut back
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cut
- trim
- cut down
- curtail
- prune
- curb
- reduce
- clip
- snip
- crop
- restrict
- lop
Crossword Answer definitions
PARE verb- To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
- (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
- To trim the hoof of a horse
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 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 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
More clues leading to the result PRUNED
- Started the day right?
- Used shears on
- Sheared
- Used shears
- Cut back
- Cut back, arboreally
- Lopped
- Tended to topiary
- Cut back on
- Cut out
More clues leading to the result LESSENED
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 SKIMP
- Pinch pennies
- Be frugal
- Economize
- Cut back
- Cut corners
- Be very thrifty
- Practice frugality
- Cut back a lot
- Be stingy
- Underspend
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 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 ECONOMIZE
More clues leading to the result SCRIMP
- Practice frugality
- Stretch a dollar
- Cut back
- Cut back financially
- Economize
- Be frugal
- Pinch pennies
- Be miserly
- Make do
- Live frugally
More clues leading to the result DIAL
- Obsolete phone verb
- "___ M For Murder"
- Call up, the old way
- Early phone feature
- Knob
- Old telephone part
- Tuner knob
- Obsolescent phone part
- Old phone feature
- Push-button predecessor
More clues leading to the result RETRENCH
More clues leading to the result DOWNSIZED
- The cotton shirt in the washer got ___
- Cut back, in corporate-speak
- Smaller now, in corporate-speak
- Cut back
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 LESSEN
- Diminish
- Abate
- Ebb
- Cut down on auditor's classroom assignment (6)
- Ease up, as pressure
- Pull back
- Subside
- Cut back
- Mitigate
- Let up