The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CALLS , but the solution may also be STOPS IN which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Drops by crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
CALLS | 29 % | 5 |
POPSIN | 29 % | 6 |
STOPSIN | 29 % | 7 |
STOPS IN | 14 % | 8 |
Why may STOPS-IN be the right solution?
The answer "STOPS IN" fits the clue "Drops by" because it means to visit someone briefly or make a quick visit.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Drops by
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- dropping
- dropped
- drop down
- drop in
- drop off
- drop away
- dropwise
- drop back
- drop by
- falls
- descends
- dropoff
Crossword Answer definitions
CALLS noun- A telephone conversation.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A cry or shout.
- A decision or judgement.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- Vocation; employment; calling.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- (prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (heading) To use one's voice.
- (heading) To visit.
- (heading) To name, identify or describe.
- (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
- (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
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 CALLS
- Phone activity
- Umps' decisions
- "Hold all my ___"
- Refs' decisions
- Answering machine queue
- Matches a bet
- Summons
- Matches at the poker table
- With 39-Across, phones the taxi dispatch
- Judgments
More clues leading to the result POPSIN
- Makes a quick visit
- Pays a surprise visit
- Surprises, in a way
- Visits briefly
- Visits unexpectedly
- Visits
- Drops by
- Visits on a whim
- Stops by
- Pays a quick visit
More clues leading to the result STOPSIN
- Visits briefly
- Drops by
- Visits
- Makes a call
- Pays a call
- Pays a call.
- Visits.
- Pays a short visit
- Comes calling