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 |
| WORKSUP | 3 % | 7 |
| AGITATES | 3 % | 8 |
| WHETS | 3 % | 5 |
| ROUSES | 3 % | 6 |
| HEATS | 3 % | 5 |
| THRILLS | 3 % | 7 |
| FIRES | 3 % | 5 |
| 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 |
| REVSUP | 2 % | 6 |
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 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 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 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