The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EELY , but the solution may also be CAGY which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Evasive crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EELY | 17 % | 4 |
| SHIFTY | 17 % | 6 |
| COY | 17 % | 3 |
| CAGEY | 13 % | 5 |
| DODGY | 13 % | 5 |
| CAGY | 9 % | 4 |
| SLY | 9 % | 3 |
| SIDEWISE | 4 % | 8 |
Why may CAGY be the right solution?
The word "CAGY" means cautious and secretive, which can be seen as evasive behavior.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Evasive
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- elusive
- artful
- equivocal
- ambiguous
- protective
- tricky
- noncommittal
- shifty
- vague
- unavoidable
- non-committal
- circular
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 EELY
- Hard to hold
- Slippery
- Hard to pick up?
- Serpentlike
- Wriggling
- Hard to pin down
- Evasive
- Hard to get hold of
- Really wiggly
- Tough to hold
More clues leading to the result SHIFTY
- Like one hard to trust
- Sly
- Marked by deceit
- Devious
- Not to be trusted
- Describing good quarterbacks or quibblers.
- Tricky.
- Evasive.
- Evasive
- Furtive
More clues leading to the result COY
- Affectedly shy
- Quaintly shy
- Playing hard to get
- Playfully innocent
- Demure
- Far from forward
- Shy
- Flirtatiously shy
- Hard to pin down
- Affectedly demure
More clues leading to the result CAGEY
- Cautious, as a reply
- Shrewd
- Cautious
- Evasive
- Hardly open
- Cleverly guarded
- Sly
- Cautiously shrewd
- Somewhat shrewd
- Wary: Slang.
More clues leading to the result DODGY
- Hard to pin down
- Evasive
- Tricky
- Not to be believed
- Evasive and tricky
- Untrustworthy, to a Brit
- Risky
- Not to be trusted
More clues leading to the result CAGY
More clues leading to the result SLY
- Crafty
- Clever like Stallone?
- Cunning
- Like a fox
- Underhanded
- Clever like a fox
- Leader of the Family Stone
- Sneaky
- Stallone sobriquet
- Stallone, in the tabloids