The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RATCHET which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2009.
Escalate, with "up" crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RATCHET | 50 % | 7 |
| STEP | 50 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Escalate, with "up"
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- step
- ratchet
- climb
- grow
- hike
- increasing
- rise
- escalating
- anabatic
- arise
- ascend
- ascending
Crossword Answer definitions
RATCHET noun- A pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- A ratchet wrench.
- (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- To cause to become incremented or decremented.
- To increment or decrement.
- Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.
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 RATCHET
- Shop tool
- Gradually turn (up)
- Move by degrees
- Toothed wheel that's often part of a set
- Escalate, with "up"
- Increase gradually, with "up"
- Pawl or click that works with wheel.
- Pawl or detent.
- Pawl.
- Toothed wheel.