Answer to "Excavations" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MINES which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2001.

Excavations crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
MINES	40 %	5
DITCHES	20 %	7
HOLES	20 %	5
PITS	20 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Excavations

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• dig
• mining
• digging
• hole in the ground
• digs
• exhumations
• fossils
• mines
• openings
• pits
• searches
• excavating

Crossword Answer definitions

MINES noun

1. Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
2. A specific facial expression.

MINES noun

1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
2. Any source of wealth or resources.
3. A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
5. A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

MINES verb

1. To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. To pick one's nose.
9. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

MINES pronoun

1. Variation of mine, formed through analogy based on the final -s of the other possessive pronouns (ours, yours, hers, theirs, his)

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 MINES

• "King Solomon's ___"
• Looks for lodes
• Gets gems
• Goes for the gold
• Gold diggers' targets
• Extraction sites
• Goes for the gold?
• Gets the lead out?
• Rock groups' locales?
• Digs for gold

More clues leading to the result DITCHES

• Gives the slip to
• Gets rid of
• Trenches.
• Excavations.
• Eighty-sixes
• Leaves behind

More clues leading to the result HOLES

• Wiffle Ball features
• Cavities
• Excavations
• Links spots
• Links segments
• Colander features
• Effects of riddling
• Links targets
• Greens targets
• Doughnut centers

More clues leading to the result PITS

• Absolute worst, with "the"
• Cores
• Peach centers
• The __ (awful)
• Musicians' workplaces
• Trading places?
• Drupe centers
• Compost heap stones
• Fruit leftovers
• Stones