The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SAPS , but the solution may also be SAPS Down which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Easy targets crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPS | 60 % | 4 |
| DUPES | 20 % | 5 |
| SETUPS | 10 % | 6 |
| SAPS Down | 10 % | 39 |
Why may SAPS-DOWN be the right solution?
The word "saps" is a slang term that means foolish or gullible people. Therefore, "easy targets" is a fitting clue for the answer "SAPS".
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Crossword Answer definitions
SAPS 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 SAPS
More clues leading to the result DUPES
- Cat's-paws
- Deceives
- Fools, as I have never done to anyone in my life
- Marks
- Swindles
- Gullible guys
- Suckers in
- Patsies
- Plays for a fool
- Swindling victims
More clues leading to the result SETUPS
- Deliberate traps
- Prearranged traps
- Fixed outcomes
- Police stings, e.g.
- Apparatuses
- BYOB conveniences
- Entrapments
- Sting operations, e.g.
- Deceptions
- Blind dates, e.g.