The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SPUTTERS , but the solution may also be LIMPS which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in Boston Globe).
Doesn't run smoothly crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SPUTTERS | 50 % | 8 |
| LIMPS | 50 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Doesn't run smoothly
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hum
- glib
- flow
- purr
- work
- oil
- rattletrap
- disagrees
- bodhisattva
- forbearance
- intention
- neutral
Crossword Answer definitions
SPUTTERS verb- To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
- To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
- To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result SPUTTERS
- Blows up, in a sense
- Doesn't run smoothly
- Reacts to an affront, maybe
- Shoots forth
- Speaks incoherently
- Fizzles out
- Speaks hastily and indistinctly.
- Speaks hastily and explosively.
- Speaks indistinctly.
- Speaks hastily and disjointedly.