The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word AROUSES , but the solution may also be KEYS UP which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Excites crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AROUSES | 18 % | 7 |
| STIRS | 10 % | 5 |
| AMPSUP | 8 % | 6 |
| SENDS | 7 % | 5 |
| FIRESUP | 7 % | 7 |
| TURNSON | 5 % | 7 |
| FIRES | 3 % | 5 |
| WORKSUP | 3 % | 7 |
| AGITATES | 3 % | 8 |
| WHETS | 3 % | 5 |
| ROUSES | 3 % | 6 |
| HEATS | 3 % | 5 |
| THRILLS | 3 % | 7 |
| REVSUP | 2 % | 6 |
| ELATES | 2 % | 6 |
| HOPSUP | 2 % | 6 |
| ENTHUSES | 2 % | 8 |
| IGNITES | 2 % | 7 |
| KEYS UP | 2 % | 7 |
| IMPASSIONS | 2 % | 10 |
| STEAMSUP | 2 % | 8 |
| MOVES | 2 % | 5 |
| KEYSUP | 2 % | 6 |
| WOWS | 2 % | 4 |
| INFLAMES | 2 % | 8 |
| WARMS | 2 % | 5 |
| AMPS UP | 2 % | 7 |
Why may KEYS-UP be the right solution?
"KEYS UP" is the right solution for the clue "Excites" because it is a phrasal verb that means to make someone or something more excited or enthusiastic.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Excites
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- arouse
- stimulate
- energize
- commove
- stir
- agitate
- rouse
- shake up
- shake
- sex
- turn on
- charge
Crossword Answer definitions
AROUSES verb- To stimulate feelings.
- To sexually stimulate.
- To wake from sleep or stupor.
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 AROUSES
- Stirs up
- Turns on
- Stirs
- Lights a fire under
- Builds a fire under
- Stimulates
- Gets going
- Sparks
- Gets excited
- Stirs to action
More clues leading to the result STIRS
- Calabooses
- Keeps from sticking to the pot
- Excites
- Wakens
- Sets in motion
- Uses a swizzle stick
- Begins to wake
- Begins to flutter the eyelids
- Kerfuffles
- Pushes around
More clues leading to the result AMPSUP
- Increases
- Intensifies
- Intensifies, informally
- Increases a few notches
- Excites
- Intensifies, in slang
- Escalates
- Juices
- Charges
- Energizes
More clues leading to the result SENDS
- Dispatches
- E-mails
- Posts
- Transmits in Morse code
- Launches
- Ships
- Does some emailing
- Elates
- Mails off
- Uses the FedEx Office, likely
More clues leading to the result FIRESUP
- Ignites
- Really incites
- Excites
- Becomes angry: Colloq.
- Grows angry.
- Becomes angry.
- Excites.
- Gets others charged and ready
More clues leading to the result TURNSON
More clues leading to the result FIRES
- Cans or sacks
- Gets done aiming?
- Lets go
- Gives the ax
- Asks questions, with "away"
- Pink-slips
- Forest rangers' worries
- Camp sights
- Discharges
- Kindles
More clues leading to the result WORKSUP
More clues leading to the result AGITATES
More clues leading to the result WHETS
- Sharpens
- Improves one's edge?
- Stimulates, as an appetite
- Stimulates, as one's curiosity
- Piques, as an appetite
- Makes sharper
- Makes a point?
- Appetizers, e.g.
- Hones
- Sharpens, as a knife
More clues leading to the result ROUSES
More clues leading to the result HEATS
- Track and field events
- Warms up
- Qualifying races
- Time trials
- Inflames
- Preliminary races
- Qualifiers
- Trials on tracks
- Prelims
- Meet prelims
More clues leading to the result THRILLS
- Funfair experiences
- Transports
- Pulse quickeners
- Roller coaster experiences
- Excites
- Electrifies
- Tickles pink
- Roller coaster sensations.
- Excitements.
- "Kicks."
More clues leading to the result REVSUP
- Accelerates
- Races the engine
- Accelerates sharply
- Gets really excited
- Energizes
- Intensifies
- Excites
- Guns
- Gives the gas
- Gets going
More clues leading to the result ELATES
- Sends to cloud nine
- Makes joyful
- Overjoys
- Sends
- Makes jubilant
- Lifts up
- Makes happy
- Fills with glee
- Suffuses with joy
- Tickles pink
More clues leading to the result HOPSUP
More clues leading to the result ENTHUSES
- Gets all worked up
- Acts all bubbly
- Excites
- Becomes all steamed up.
- Shows ardor: Colloq.
- Shows ardent interest: Colloq.
- Shows eager interest: Colloq.
- Is fervid: Colloq.
- Bubbles over
- Becomes zealous
More clues leading to the result IGNITES
- Lights
- Sets off
- Sets ablaze
- Puts a match to
- Starts to flame
- Catches fire
- Sparks
- Fires up
- Sets a match to
- Catches
More clues leading to the result KEYS UP
More clues leading to the result IMPASSIONS
More clues leading to the result STEAMSUP
- Makes angry
- Makes foggy, as a bathroom mirror
- Makes temporarily nonfunctional, as a bathroom mirror
- Angers
- Gets misty
- Makes really sore
- Fogs
- Makes angry: Colloq.
- Excites
- Gets angry
More clues leading to the result MOVES
- Pulls up stakes
- Gets a change of scenery?
- Relocates
- Chess turns
- Chess choice
- Leaves town, maybe
- Doesn't freeze
- Shifts
- Changes places
- Chess activity
More clues leading to the result KEYSUP
More clues leading to the result WOWS
- Impresses
- Emphatic kudos
- Blows away
- Impresses in a big way
- Knocks out of one's socks
- Really impresses
- Knocks the socks off
- Bowls over
- Overwhelms
- Dazzles
More clues leading to the result INFLAMES
- Excites
- Burning
- Kindles, as passions
- Angers.
- How Troy perished.
- One way to go down
- How the Hindenburg went down
- How the Phoenix went down
- Fires up, or fired up
More clues leading to the result WARMS
- Prepares leftovers
- Reheats
- Loosens (up)
- Becomes more receptive (to)
- Prepares, as leftovers
- Heats a bit
- Becomes more friendly
- Becomes friendly
- Removes the chill
- Microwaves, perhaps