The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word EVADE , but the solution may also be AVOID which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Duck crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EVADE | 27 % | 5 |
| TEAL | 12 % | 4 |
| AVOID | 12 % | 5 |
| EIDER | 10 % | 5 |
| ELUDE | 10 % | 5 |
| SMEE | 6 % | 4 |
| DODGE | 4 % | 5 |
| SMEW | 3 % | 4 |
| SIDESTEP | 3 % | 8 |
| SHUN | 2 % | 4 |
| SHIRK | 2 % | 5 |
| HITTHEDECK | 1 % | 10 |
| AVERT | 1 % | 5 |
| PINTAIL | 1 % | 7 |
| MALLARD | 1 % | 7 |
| FORE | 1 % | 4 |
| LOWERONESHEAD | 0 % | 13 |
| STOOPDOWN | 0 % | 9 |
| AVOIDANSWERING | 0 % | 14 |
| STOOPSUDDENLY | 0 % | 13 |
| EVADEABLOW | 0 % | 10 |
| LOOKOUT | 0 % | 7 |
| QUACKANIMAL | 0 % | 11 |
| TAKECOVER | 0 % | 9 |
| SCAUP | 0 % | 5 |
| AVOIDTROUBLE | 0 % | 12 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Duck
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- douse
- sidestep
- parry
- dodge
- circumvent
- elude
- evade
- put off
- skirt
- dip
- hedge
- fudge
Crossword Answer definitions
EVADE verb- To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
- To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
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 EVADE
- Sidestep
- Use a loophole
- Beat around the bush
- Circumvent
- Duck
- Fail to pay, as taxes
- Give the slip to
- Steer clear of
- Weasel out of
- Avoid
More clues leading to the result TEAL
- Greenish blue
- River duck
- Shade of blue
- Bluish green
- Freshwater duck
- Mallard cousin
- Blue green
- Dabbling duck
- Ducky color?
- Blue-green
More clues leading to the result AVOID
- Sidestep
- Steer clear of
- Steer away from
- Duck
- Keep from occurring
- Stay clear of
- Shun
- Don't confront
- Get out of the way of
- Dodge
More clues leading to the result EIDER
- Big duck
- Black and white duck
- Down source
- Duck
- Goose down
- You want this duck's down
- Down home?
- You can get down from it?
- Source of soft down
- Winter coat material
More clues leading to the result ELUDE
- Escape from
- Give the slip to
- Shake off
- Slip by unnoticed
- Get away from
- Slip by
- Avoid
- Manage to avoid
- Dodge
- Get by
More clues leading to the result SMEE
- Hook sidekick
- Hook's henchman
- Hook's sidekick
- One of Captain Hook's men
- "Peter Pan" pirate
- Duck found in crossword puzzles
- Hook's mate
- Duck often found in crossword puzzles
- Hook hand
- Captain Hook's henchman
More clues leading to the result DODGE
- Caravan maker
- Adroitly avoid
- Sidestep
- Ram's parent?
- Steer clear of
- Durango maker
- Duck
- Charger or Challenger
- Avoid
- Viper manufacturer
More clues leading to the result SMEW
- Fish-eating duck
- Diving duck
- White merganser
- Sawbill, e.g.
- Merganser
- Duck also called white nun
- Small diving duck
- Old World duck
- Fish-eating Eurasian duck
- Eurasian diving duck
More clues leading to the result SIDESTEP
More clues leading to the result SHUN
- Avoid
- Deliberately avoid
- Keep away from
- Eschew
- Steer clear of
- Scrupulously avoid
- Blackball
- Treat with disdain, in a way
- Give the cold shoulder
- Cold-shoulder
More clues leading to the result SHIRK
- Evade a duty
- Blow off work, say
- Dodge one's duty
- Get around
- Avoid one's duty
- Avoid
- Avoid, as one's duty
- Evade, as duty
- Dodge
- Avoid, as duty
More clues leading to the result HITTHEDECK
- Prepare for action
- "Slide!"
- Get knocked down
- Drop to a prone position
- Vincent Youmans musical of the 1920's.
- Get ready for action.
- Skipper's command.
- Need blackjack dealer to ...
- Rise from bed ... or drop to one's stomach
- "Duck!"
More clues leading to the result AVERT
More clues leading to the result PINTAIL
- Long-necked river duck
- Duck
- Migratory duck
- Duck named for the long-feathered part of its anatomy
- Long-necked duck
- Sort of duck
- River duck.
- Duck.
- River duck
- Dabbling duck
More clues leading to the result MALLARD
- A dabbling duck
- Wild flier
- Common duck
- Comic strip duck __ Fillmore
- Common dabbler
- Target of the duck hunter.
- Wild duck.
- Duck.
- Wild duck
- Duck
More clues leading to the result FORE
- St. Andrews shout
- Tiger Woods yell
- Alerting shout
- Cry from the tee
- Golfer's cry
- Links warning
- Fairway duck?
- Links yell
- Pebble Beach warning
- Stall starter
More clues leading to the result LOWERONESHEAD
More clues leading to the result STOOPDOWN
More clues leading to the result AVOIDANSWERING
More clues leading to the result STOOPSUDDENLY
More clues leading to the result EVADEABLOW
More clues leading to the result LOOKOUT
- Sentry
- "Watch it!"
- Guard
- Observation point
- Words of warning
- Take care.
- Crow's nest.
- Prospect.
- Beware!
- Beware.
More clues leading to the result QUACKANIMAL
More clues leading to the result TAKECOVER
More clues leading to the result SCAUP
- Diving duck
- Bay duck
- A duck.
- Relative of the canvasback.
- Diving duck.
- Kind of duck.
- Species of duck.
- Duck related to the redhead.
- Wild duck.
- Sea duck.