Answer to "Cut down to size, maybe" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CROP , but the solution may also be EDITED Down 1 Dear which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

Cut down to size, maybe crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CROP	33 %	4
EDIT	33 %	4
EDITED Down 1 Dear	33 %	18

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut down to size, maybe

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• cuts
• pare
• trim
• edit
• cut down
• scant
• trimmed
• edited
• truncate
• fell
• log
• dress

Crossword Answer definitions

CROP noun

1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
5. The lashing end of a whip
6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
7. A rocky outcrop.
8. The act of cropping.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
10. A short haircut.
11. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.
12. The foliate part of a finial.
13. The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
14. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
15. Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
16. An entire oxhide.

CROP verb

1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
2. To mow, reap or gather.
3. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
4. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
5. To yield harvest.
6. To cause to bear a crop.

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 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 EDIT

• Blue-pencil
• Emulate Maxwell Perkins
• More than proofread
• Prepare for publication
• Redact
• Revamp a text
• Revise
• Rework, as a story
• Trim the copy
• Update

More clues leading to the result EDITED Down 1 Dear

• Cut down to size, maybe