The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SAP , but the solution may also be SITTING DUCK which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Easy mark crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAP | 51 % | 3 |
| PATSY | 16 % | 5 |
| DUPE | 6 % | 4 |
| PUSHOVER | 4 % | 8 |
| SIMP | 4 % | 4 |
| CHUMP | 3 % | 5 |
| SITTINGDUCK | 2 % | 11 |
| CLAYPIGEON | 2 % | 10 |
| SOFTY | 2 % | 5 |
| SOFTTOUCH | 2 % | 9 |
| STOOGE | 2 % | 6 |
| PREY | 2 % | 4 |
| LIVEONE | 2 % | 7 |
| PIGEON | 1 % | 6 |
| SITTING DUCK | 1 % | 12 |
| POORFISH | 1 % | 8 |
| NAIF | 1 % | 4 |
Why may SITTING-DUCK be the right solution?
The term "easy mark" is often used to describe someone who is vulnerable or an easy target for deception or exploitation. A "sitting duck" is a common idiom that means someone or something that is an easy target or vulnerable to attack. Therefore, "SITTING DUCK" is the right answer because it fits the definition of an easy mark.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Easy mark
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sitting duck
- easiness
- easygoing
- easiest
- simple
- easy money
- easily
- with ease
- easeful
- effortless
- marking
- effortlessly
Crossword Answer definitions
SAP noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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 SAP
More clues leading to the result PATSY
- Sucker
- "Crazy" singer Cline
- "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline
- Dupe
- Fall guy
- Easy mark
- Cline of country
- Pushover
- Swindler's victim
- Easily duped sort
More clues leading to the result DUPE
More clues leading to the result PUSHOVER
- Easy mark
- Easily beatable opponent
- Soft touch
- A set-up
- A snap or cinch.
- A cinch.
- Cinch
- No tough opponent
- Easily defeated type
- Horrible negotiator
More clues leading to the result SIMP
More clues leading to the result CHUMP
More clues leading to the result SITTINGDUCK
- Gallery sighting
- Easy target
- Defenseless target
- Dupe
- One who's easy to take
- Hard-to-miss target
- Vulnerable one
- Easy mark
- Model widgeon?
- One liable to get hurt
More clues leading to the result CLAYPIGEON
- Skeet target
- Hurled target
- Easy target
- Easy mark
- It's hurled from a trap
- *Trapshooter's target
- Trapshooter's target
- Target of a sort.
- Easy mark?
- Sitting duck's kin
More clues leading to the result SOFTY
- Pushover
- Sentimental one
- Spoiler, maybe
- Marshmallow
- Sentimental soul
- Tender-hearted soul
- Easy touch
- Dewy-eyed sort
- Sentimental sort
- Hardly the drill sergeant type
More clues leading to the result SOFTTOUCH
- Bleeding heart
- Pushover
- Impressionable type
- One who falls for sob stories
- Easy money source
- Easy mark
- Ready victim.
- One who'll easily lend money for a hard-luck story
- SAJAK
- Borrower's easy target
More clues leading to the result STOOGE
- Straight man
- Curly, e.g.
- Howard, Howard, or Fine
- Complete idiot
- Larry or Moe
- Bozo
- Willing butt of gags
- Flunky
- Slapstick trio member
- Comic underling
More clues leading to the result PREY
- Carnivore's quarry
- Kestrel's quarry
- Chicken, to a chicken hawk
- Hunter's quarry
- Fish to hawk e.g.
- Flies, vis-a-vis me with a flyswatter
- Hunted animal
- Moving game pieces?
- Food chain link
- Fly, to a spider
More clues leading to the result LIVEONE
- Potential patsy
- Human dynamo
- Potential patsy, in slang
- Grifter's easy mark
- Con man's dream
- Potential dupe
- Easy mark
- Sucker
- Easily duped person
- Gull
More clues leading to the result PIGEON
- Dove's city cousin
- Statuary rooster
- Carrier or passenger follower
- Small-winged carrier
- Patsy
- Word with carrier or passenger
- Con artist's target
- City-park bird
- Urban bird
- City bird