The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HEW , but the solution may also be SLAIN which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
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Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HEW | 15 % | 3 |
| FELL | 12 % | 4 |
| HEWED | 10 % | 5 |
| MOW | 8 % | 3 |
| HEWN | 7 % | 4 |
| AXED | 6 % | 4 |
| PARE | 5 % | 4 |
| PARED | 5 % | 5 |
| FELLED | 4 % | 6 |
| SLAY | 2 % | 4 |
| ABRIDGE | 2 % | 7 |
| SMALLER | 2 % | 7 |
| AXE | 2 % | 3 |
| ABATE | 2 % | 5 |
| MOWED | 2 % | 5 |
| TRIM | 2 % | 4 |
| CURB | 2 % | 4 |
| ABRIDGED | 1 % | 8 |
| SCANT | 1 % | 5 |
| SAWN | 1 % | 4 |
| MOWN | 1 % | 4 |
| REDUCE | 1 % | 6 |
| SLAIN | 1 % | 5 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| HUMILIATE | 1 % | 9 |
| SLEW | 1 % | 4 |
| RETRENCH | 1 % | 8 |
| SHORTEN | 1 % | 7 |
| ABASE | 1 % | 5 |
| LESSENED | 1 % | 8 |
| CHOP | 1 % | 4 |
| LOWER | 1 % | 5 |
| PRUNE | 1 % | 5 |
| REDUCED | 1 % | 7 |
| SCYTHED | 1 % | 7 |
Why may FELL be the right solution?
"FELL" is the past tense of "fall," and it can also mean to chop down a tree or to cause something to collapse. Therefore, "cut down" can be a synonym for "fell."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut down
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cut
- trim
- cut out
- slash
- cut back
- reduce
- felled
- drop
- knock down
- downed
- pull down
- down
Crossword Answer definitions
HEW verb- To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
- To shape; to form.
- To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
- Hue; colour
- Shape; form
- Destruction by cutting down.
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 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 FELL
- Tumbled
- Toppled
- Character actor Norman
- Dove
- Collapsed
- Chop down
- Deadly, as a swoop
- Swoop's adjective
- Plummeted
- Cut down
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 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 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 AXED
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 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 FELLED
More clues leading to the result SLAY
- Do in the dragon
- Overwhelm with laughter
- Do in
- Dispatch a dragon
- Overwhelm
- Amusingly overwhelm
- Kill
- Do well at a 39-Down
- Emulate Natty Bumppo
- Do in, as a dragon
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 SMALLER
- Tinier
- Cut-down
- Shrunken
- Not as large
- More compact
- Compressed
- Less bulky
- Less significant
- Not as big
- More mean-spirited
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 ABATE
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 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 CURB
- Gutter part
- Parking place
- Stop
- Rein in
- Street edging
- Restrain
- Put limits on
- Block boundary
- Parking meter's location
- Inhibit
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 SCANT
- Meager
- Barely adequate
- Barely sufficient
- Marginally enough
- Mere
- Barely enough
- Few and far between
- Grudging, as attention
- Limited
- In short supply
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 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 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 SLAIN
- Dead, as a dragon
- Killed, as in a Tolkien story
- Done in
- Iced
- Dispatched
- Done in, as a dragon
- Whacked, as they say
- Vanquished
- Dispatched, as a dragon
- Helpless with laughter
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 HUMILIATE
More clues leading to the result SLEW
- Bumped off
- Did in
- Dispatched a dragon
- Multitude
- Triple Crown winner Seattle __
- Whole bunch
- Bunch
- Killed the dragon
- 1977 derby winner, Seattle ____
- Murdered
More clues leading to the result RETRENCH
More clues leading to the result SHORTEN
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result LESSENED
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 LOWER
- Decrease
- Devaluate
- Remove, as artwork
- Request from one getting a backrub
- Put down
- Mark down in price
- Reduce
- Bring down
- Bunk option
- Not as high
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 REDUCED
- Lost weight
- On sale
- Sign at a sale
- Lighter
- Cut down
- Marked down.
- Slimmed.
- Store sign.
- Cut
- Like some sentences and fat