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 |
| CURTAILED | 1 % | 9 |
| NIP | 1 % | 3 |
| STUNTED | 1 % | 7 |
| SHAVE | 1 % | 5 |
| BOBTAILED | 1 % | 9 |
| TERSE | 1 % | 5 |
| ELIDE | 1 % | 5 |
| STOP | 1 % | 4 |
| PRUNE | 1 % | 5 |
| POLL | 1 % | 4 |
| HALTED | 1 % | 6 |
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- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
- The lashing end of a whip
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- A short haircut.
- 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.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- To yield harvest.
- 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
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
More clues leading to the result SHEAR
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
More clues leading to the result CURTAILED
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 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 BOBTAILED
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 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 POLL
- Canvass
- Roper specialty
- Survey
- Cut short
- Roper report
- Campaign test
- Straw vote
- Enumeration
- Word following exit or straw
- Roper survey, e.g.