The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SNIP , but the solution may also be AXE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Cut crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNIP | 13 % | 4 |
| SEVER | 8 % | 5 |
| SLIT | 7 % | 4 |
| SAWN | 6 % | 4 |
| HEWN | 6 % | 4 |
| SHEAR | 4 % | 5 |
| GASH | 4 % | 4 |
| MOWN | 4 % | 4 |
| LOP | 4 % | 3 |
| SAWED | 3 % | 5 |
| MOW | 3 % | 3 |
| HEW | 2 % | 3 |
| SHORN | 2 % | 5 |
| OMIT | 2 % | 4 |
| SHARE | 2 % | 5 |
| HEWED | 2 % | 5 |
| AXED | 2 % | 4 |
| SLASH | 1 % | 5 |
| PARE | 1 % | 4 |
| AXE | 1 % | 3 |
| SHEARED | 1 % | 7 |
| SEVERED | 1 % | 7 |
| DELETE | 1 % | 6 |
| SCISSOR | 1 % | 7 |
| DECREASE | 1 % | 8 |
| SLICED | 1 % | 6 |
| SAW | 1 % | 3 |
| SLASHED | 1 % | 7 |
| DELE | 1 % | 4 |
| ABRIDGE | 1 % | 7 |
| SLICE | 1 % | 5 |
| EDITOUT | 1 % | 7 |
| CARVE | 1 % | 5 |
| CLIP | 1 % | 4 |
| SHORTEN | 1 % | 7 |
| INCISE | 1 % | 6 |
| GASHED | 1 % | 6 |
| CROP | 0 % | 4 |
| SNEE | 0 % | 4 |
| TRIM | 0 % | 4 |
| SNIPPED | 0 % | 7 |
| LESION | 0 % | 6 |
| SHORTENED | 0 % | 9 |
| INCISION | 0 % | 8 |
| CHOP | 0 % | 4 |
| LOPPED | 0 % | 6 |
| MOWED | 0 % | 5 |
| FELLED | 0 % | 6 |
| SLICEDINTO | 0 % | 10 |
| REAP | 0 % | 4 |
| DOCKED | 0 % | 6 |
| EDITEDOUT | 0 % | 9 |
| STOP | 0 % | 4 |
| TAKE | 0 % | 4 |
| ABRIDGED | 0 % | 8 |
| DILUTE | 0 % | 6 |
| REDUCED | 0 % | 7 |
| ETCH | 0 % | 4 |
| SHAVE | 0 % | 5 |
| NICK | 0 % | 4 |
| DICED | 0 % | 5 |
| KNIFE | 0 % | 5 |
| LESSENED | 0 % | 8 |
| STAB | 0 % | 4 |
| ENGRAVE | 0 % | 7 |
| PRUNE | 0 % | 5 |
| PARED | 0 % | 5 |
| SKIP | 0 % | 4 |
| REDUCE | 0 % | 6 |
| HACK | 0 % | 4 |
Why may AXE be the right solution?
"Cut" is a verb often associated with using an axe to chop or sever something, making "AXE" the fitting answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- trimmed
- slashed
- chopped
- sliced
- trim
- slash
- reduce
- slice
- reduced
- split
- shorten
- severed
Crossword Answer definitions
SNIP noun- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- (definite, the snip) A vasectomy.
- A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- An impertinent or mischievous person.
- A share or portion; a snack.
- A tailor.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To circumcise.
- To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
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 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 SEVER
More clues leading to the result SLIT
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 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 SHEAR
More clues leading to the result GASH
- Deep cut
- Possible result of a sword fight
- Open wound
- Injury
- Long cut
- Nasty cut
- Stitches target
- Knife mark
- Knife wound
- Dicer's injury
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 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 SAWED
- Cut the boards
- Cut
- Cut wood
- Made across-the-board cuts?
- Chopped (off)
- ___-off shotgun
- Put teeth to work
- Cut lumber
- Applied teeth to
- Worked with lumber
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 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 SHORN
- Clipped
- Sheared
- Cut off
- De-wooled
- Fleeced
- Clipped, as sheep
- Cut
- Trimmed of wool
- Relieved of wool
- Back from the barber
More clues leading to the result OMIT
More clues leading to the result SHARE
- Equitable portion
- Stock holding
- Allotment
- Stock unit
- Day care word
- Go Dutch
- Don't be selfish
- Show communal spirit
- Stock amount
- Don't hoard
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 AXED
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 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 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 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 SEVERED
- Cut off
- Separated, as with a knife
- Broke off, as relations
- Cut
- Cloven
- Disjoined.
- Sundered.
- Dissociated.
- Broken.
- Cut.
More clues leading to the result DELETE
- Free up space, in a way
- Remove
- Cancel
- Computer key
- Rubout
- Get rid of
- Remove a file
- Strike out
- Strike
- Nullifying keystroke
More clues leading to the result SCISSOR
- ___ Sisters
- Kind of kick
- Shear
- Snip
- Move crisply back and forth, as one's legs
- Clip, as a coupon
- Cut, as coupons
- Clip out, as a coupon
- Clip
- Cut with shears
More clues leading to the result DECREASE
More clues leading to the result SLICED
- Cut the baloney
- Diced's companions
- Prepared tomatoes
- Didn't drive well
- Drove into the woods, perhaps
- Chopped
- Cut
- Like most deli meat
- Prepared eggplant for moussaka
- Processed prosciutto
More clues leading to the result SAW
- Byword
- Observed
- __ wood (snore)
- __-toothed (jagged)
- Circular, for one
- Adage
- Trite saying
- Ice sculptor's need
- Wood cutter
- Gruesome franchise of 2004-2010
More clues leading to the result SLASHED
- Like drastically reduced prices
- Cut severely
- Reduced sharply.
- Cut.
- Cut, as prices.
- Marked with a sweeping stroke.
- Cut prices drastically
- Cut
- Drastically reduced
- Greatly reduced
More clues leading to the result DELE
- Strike out
- Editor's remark
- Strike out, as copy
- Take out
- Mark of omission
- Takeout sign?
- Editor's mark
- Request to remove from a galley
- Takeout order?
- Proofer's word
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 SLICE
- Bread unit
- Duffer's problem
- Pizzeria order
- Piece of the pie
- Pizza piece
- Cake serving
- Pizza unit
- Toast serving
- Links problem, perhaps
- It's a piece of cake
More clues leading to the result EDITOUT
- Censor
- Bleep
- Delete
- Bleep, say
- Remove from text
- Remove from a manuscript
- Remove from the text
- Cut
- Blue pencil
- Delete text
More clues leading to the result CARVE
- Decorate by cutting and shaping
- Do holiday duty
- Do a holiday chore
- Whittle
- Play host at Thanksgiving
- Slice
- Make scrimshaw
- Whittle or chisel
- What a Thanksgiving guest of honor might do
- Start on the Thanksgiving turkey
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 SHORTEN
More clues leading to the result INCISE
- Carve
- Engrave
- Write by carving
- Cut into
- Cut
- Cut with a scalpel
- Engrave.
- Cut into.
- Carve into.
- Inscribe by carving.
More clues leading to the result GASHED
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 SNEE
- Cut, old-style
- Fighting knife of old
- Cornell's ___ Hall
- Dagger
- Dagger of old
- Old dagger
- Snick's partner
- Snicker ____
- Knife
- Snick-or-___
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 SNIPPED
- Cut with small strokes
- Made quick scissor cuts
- Clipped.
- Used shears.
- Cut.
- Cut
- Clipped
- Cut, as roses
- Did salon work
- Made cuts
More clues leading to the result LESION
More clues leading to the result SHORTENED
More clues leading to the result INCISION
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 LOPPED
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 FELLED
More clues leading to the result SLICEDINTO
More clues leading to the result REAP
- Harvest
- Use a sickle
- Fall job
- Gain through effort
- Gardening spoonerism: Weed it and _____
- Bring in
- Gather
- "You're going to ___ just what you sow" (Lou Reed lyric)
- Bring in the sheaves
- Bring in by the bushel
More clues leading to the result DOCKED
More clues leading to the result EDITEDOUT
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 TAKE
- On the ____ (accepting bribes)
- Gate receipts
- Give's partner
- Ingest, as medicine
- "____this Job and Shove It"
- "___my wife. Please."
- Accept
- Accept uncomplainingly
- Pickings
- On the __ (accepting bribes)
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 DILUTE
- Add tonic, maybe
- Cut, in a way
- Thin with water
- Water down
- Add water to
- Make fainter, as a color
- Weaken with water
- Weaken
- Make weaker
- Make thinner
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 ETCH
- Draw with acid
- Fix in the mind
- Make an aquatint
- Put on glass
- Cut glass
- Design like Durer
- Design on glass
- Do an aquatint
- Engrave with acid
- __ a Sketch
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 NICK
- Shaving cut
- Shaving mishap
- Cannon of "America's Got Talent"
- One of the Jonas Brothers
- Slightly slice
- Barbershop mishap
- Just barely hit
- Nolte of "Lorenzo's Oil"
- Shaving accident
- Sign of a close shave?
More clues leading to the result DICED
- Chopped into little cubes
- In little squares
- Used a processor
- Cut in tiny cubes
- Cut into cubes
- Chopped finely
- Gambled at a table
- Chopped up
- Chopped into bits
- Took a chance
More clues leading to the result KNIFE
- Take a stab at
- Leatherman tool
- Mack of song
- Stiletto
- "Clue" weapon
- Prop for Crocodile Dundee
- It may be drawn to scale?
- Bowie's weapon
- Cutler's product
- Part of a place setting
More clues leading to the result LESSENED
More clues leading to the result STAB
- Attempt
- Pierce
- Spear
- Wild guess
- Brief attempt
- Grab with a fork
- Make a try at
- Try
- Poke with a pick
- Stick with a shiv, say
More clues leading to the result ENGRAVE
- Cut
- Make a lasting impression
- Write on a ring, e.g.
- Inscribe
- Write on a ring
- Personalize, at the jeweler's
- Personalize at the jeweler's
- Impress deeply?
- Make an impression on?
- Impress deeply
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 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 SKIP
- Fail to include
- Leave quickly
- LP problem
- Pass over
- Omit
- Ditch, as class
- Go past
- Green card in a party game
- Ignore, as pre-roll ads
- Uno card
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