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 |
| ABRIDGE | 2 % | 7 |
| SMALLER | 2 % | 7 |
| AXE | 2 % | 3 |
| SLAY | 2 % | 4 |
| ABATE | 2 % | 5 |
| MOWED | 2 % | 5 |
| TRIM | 2 % | 4 |
| CURB | 2 % | 4 |
| SLAIN | 1 % | 5 |
| ABRIDGED | 1 % | 8 |
| SCANT | 1 % | 5 |
| SAWN | 1 % | 4 |
| MOWN | 1 % | 4 |
| REDUCE | 1 % | 6 |
| LOWER | 1 % | 5 |
| PRUNE | 1 % | 5 |
| REDUCED | 1 % | 7 |
| SCYTHED | 1 % | 7 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| HUMILIATE | 1 % | 9 |
| SLEW | 1 % | 4 |
| RETRENCH | 1 % | 8 |
| SHORTEN | 1 % | 7 |
| ABASE | 1 % | 5 |
| CHOP | 1 % | 4 |
| LESSENED | 1 % | 8 |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
More clues leading to the result SCYTHED
- Cut in the field
- Cut down in the field
- Cut down
- Mowed in a certain way.
- Reaped, in a way
- Cut, as a 58-Across
- Cut or mowed, in a way
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 CHOP
- Karate move
- ___ Suey
- Karate blow
- Pork cut
- Recipe instruction
- Use a hatchet
- Hack
- Hew
- Shift or veer, as wind
- Karate belt?