The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word AVOIDS , but the solution may also be DODGES which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in New York Times).
Ducks crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AVOIDS | 16 % | 6 |
| EIDERS | 14 % | 6 |
| EVADES | 14 % | 6 |
| TEALS | 14 % | 5 |
| ELUDES | 12 % | 6 |
| SMEES | 9 % | 5 |
| DODGES | 5 % | 6 |
| MALLARDS | 4 % | 8 |
| SMEWS | 4 % | 5 |
| BIRDS | 2 % | 5 |
| FOWL | 2 % | 4 |
| AVERTS | 2 % | 6 |
| TROUSERS | 2 % | 8 |
| SIDESTEPS | 2 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ducks
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
AVOIDS verb- To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
- To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
- To try not to do something or to have something happen
- To make empty; to clear.
- To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
- To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- To emit or throw out; to void.
- To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
- To get rid of.
- To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
- To become void or vacant.
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 AVOIDS
- Doesn't go into
- Tries not to meet
- Steers clear of
- Dodges
- Abstains from
- Gets around
- Eludes
- Stays away from
- Sidesteps
- Won't go near
More clues leading to the result EIDERS
- Where to get down
- Pillow fillings
- Ducks with down
- Down providers
- Down-producing ducks
- Down ducks
- They might get you down
- Down sources
- Downy ducks
- Large sea ducks
More clues leading to the result EVADES
More clues leading to the result TEALS
- Fresh-water ducks
- Bright greens
- Freshwater fowls
- Freshwater ducks
- Dabbling ducks
- River ducks
- Bluish shades
- Freshwater fowl
- Colorful ducks
- Colorful flappers
More clues leading to the result ELUDES
- Shakes a tail, maybe
- Stays out of reach
- Gets away from
- Gets around
- Dodges
- Gives the slip
- Sneaks past
- Escapes one's understanding
- Ducks
- Loses, as a tail
More clues leading to the result SMEES
More clues leading to the result DODGES
- Avoids
- Ducks
- Artfully avoids
- Evasive maneuvers
- Evades
- Excuses
- Equivocates
- Shifty tricks.
- Moves quickly aside.
- Artifices.
More clues leading to the result MALLARDS
- Producers of many quacks
- Ducks whose males have green heads
- Adaptable ducks
- Flock members
- Certain ducks
- Wild ducks
- Ducks.
- Duck hunters' bag.
- Wild ducks.
- Green-headed water birds
More clues leading to the result SMEWS
- Mergansers
- Eurasian diving ducks
- Black-and-white ducks
- Small mergansers
- Eurasian ducks
- Merganser relatives
- Diving ducks
- Small diving ducks
- European ducks
- Mergansers.
More clues leading to the result BIRDS
- Badminton needs
- Razzberries
- Hitchcock thriller, with "The"
- Hitchcock villains
- Audubon subjects
- Aviary denizens
- Cagers Sue and Larry
- Canada geese, e.g.
- Doves and hawks
- Assailants in a Hitchcock film
More clues leading to the result FOWL
- Game boys?
- Game bird
- Chickens and turkeys
- Barnyard birds
- Poultry
- Chickens, e.g.
- Flying game
- Barnyard bird
- Feathered friend
- They're game?
More clues leading to the result AVERTS
- Forestalls
- Staves off
- Turns away
- Wards off
- Heads off at the pass
- Keeps from happening
- Prevents
- Precludes
- Fends off
- Dodges