Answer to "Cut short" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CROP which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2021.

Cut short crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CROP	28 %	4
ABORT	17 %	5
END	8 %	3
BOB	7 %	3
CLIP	6 %	4
TRUNCATE	5 %	8
ABORTED	4 %	7
LOP	3 %	3
CURTAIL	3 %	7
SHEAR	2 %	5
SNIP	2 %	4
CHOP	2 %	4
SHEARED	1 %	7
DOCK	1 %	4
ENDED	1 %	5
TRUNCATED	1 %	9
SHAVE	1 %	5
TERSE	1 %	5
BOBTAILED	1 %	9
ELIDE	1 %	5
STOP	1 %	4
PRUNE	1 %	5
HALTED	1 %	6
POLL	1 %	4
NIP	1 %	3
STUNTED	1 %	7
CURTAILED	1 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut short

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

• break off
• curtail
• truncate
• clip
• crop
• break short
• cut off
• abridge
• shorten
• cut out
• short
• overshorten

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 ABORT

• Cut short
• Scrub a mission
• End
• Terminate prematurely
• Word shouted when trying to end a mission
• Mission-stopping command
• End early
• Cancel, at NASA
• Cancel a launch
• Cancel, as a mission

More clues leading to the result END

• Break off
• Curling division
• Deep or dead follower
• Finale
• Finis
• Finish
• He may be offensive
• Last gasp
• Sign off
• Wind up

More clues leading to the result BOB

• Fast Feller
• Float like a cork
• Cut short
• Horse trainer Baffert
• Pavement drummer Nastanovich
• Shilling
• Go for apples
• Short cut
• Partner of weave
• Seger or Saget

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 TRUNCATE

• Shorten
• Cut short
• Curtail
• Cut short.
• Shorten by cutting.
• Lop off
• Shorten by cutting

More clues leading to the result ABORTED

• Scratched at NASA
• Stopped a take-off
• Terminated before completion
• Canceled, to NASA
• Nullified
• Scratched
• Called off a mission
• Scrapped, as a space mission
• Ended prematurely
• Made a go a no-go

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 CURTAIL

• Reduce
• Make shorter
• Abridge
• Cut short
• Dock
• Abridge.
• Cut short.
• Shorten.
• Reduce.

More clues leading to the result SHEAR

• Wind phenomenon
• Clip
• Cut
• Cut short
• Take a sheep's wool
• Strip
• Cut, as wool
• Give a crew cut
• Scissor
• Cut off

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 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 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 DOCK

• Berth
• Berth place
• Plug your smartphone into your computer
• Marina
• Launch site
• Abridge
• Wharf
• Get into a slip
• Walk on water?
• Line of icons on a Mac screen

More clues leading to the result ENDED

• All over
• Wrapped up
• Drew to a close
• Finished
• Over
• Wound up
• Came to a conclusion
• Through
• Pulled the plug on
• Finito

More clues leading to the result TRUNCATED

• Shortened
• Cut off.
• Cut short.
• Cut short

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 TERSE

• Brusque
• Not mincing words
• Right to the point
• To the point
• Not windy
• Direct
• Short and sweet
• Concise
• Clipped
• Pithy

More clues leading to the result BOBTAILED

• Cropped
• Cut short
• Like some breeds of cats

More clues leading to the result ELIDE

• Omit
• Omit out of consideration
• Make an omission
• Say "G'day" or "Go 'way"
• Say 'ere or 'ead
• Skip over
• Slip over
• Slur over
• Omit, in speech
• Leave out

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 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 HALTED

• Put the kibosh on
• Put an end to
• Put a stop to
• 0beyed a sentry
• Suspended
• Stopped
• Quit marching
• Drew up
• Ended the march
• Stopped marching

More clues leading to the result POLL

• Canvass
• Roper specialty
• Survey
• Cut short
• Roper report
• Campaign test
• Straw vote
• Enumeration
• Word following exit or straw
• Roper survey, e.g.

More clues leading to the result NIP

• Chill
• Tuck's partner
• Winter-air quality
• Winter chill
• Small bite
• Win by a nose
• Quick drink
• Pinch
• Drop to drink?
• Quick sip, as of brandy

More clues leading to the result STUNTED

• Hindered
• Shorter than usual
• Hindered the growth of
• Hindered, as growth
• Undergrown
• Inhibited, in a way
• Dwarfed.
• Hindered the development of.
• Retarded.
• Flew with a flourish

More clues leading to the result CURTAILED

• Cut short
• Put restrictions on