Answer to "Expire" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LAPSE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.

Expire crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
LAPSE	38 %	5
DIE	21 %	3
RUNOUT	14 %	6
ELAPSE	8 %	6
END	7 %	3
PERISH	4 %	6
DECEASE	3 %	7
PASSAWAY	3 %	8
EXHALE	1 %	6
PASSON	1 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Expire

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

• decease
• pass away
• die
• perish
• exit
• run out
• breathe out
• exhale
• go
• expiration
• lapse
• terminate

Crossword Answer definitions

LAPSE noun

1. A temporary failure; a slip.
2. A decline or fall in standards.
3. A pause in continuity.
4. An interval of time between events.
5. A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
6. A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
7. A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
8. A fall or apostasy.

LAPSE verb

1. To fall away gradually; to subside.
2. To fall into error or heresy.
3. To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
4. To become void.
5. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.

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 LAPSE

• Breach
• Run out
• Expire
• Spiritual fall
• Spell of forgetfulness
• Gap, as in time
• Fall back
• Slip
• Moment of blanking out
• Pass by

More clues leading to the result DIE

• Gambling cube
• Tool and ____ set
• Trivial Pursuit need
• __-hard
• "The ___ is cast." (Caesar)
• Conk out
• It's one you roll
• Cube with dots?
• Gaming cube
• Monopoly cube

More clues leading to the result RUNOUT

• Be eggshausted
• Expire
• Expire, as a subscription
• Get used to
• Need renewing
• Need restocking
• Come to an end.
• Expire.
• Exhaust
• Lapse

More clues leading to the result ELAPSE

• Go by
• Pass
• Pass by
• Run out
• Slip by
• Let slip
• Tick by
• Go by, as days
• Slip away
• Go by, as time

More clues leading to the result END

• Break off
• Curling division
• Deep or dead follower
• Finale
• Finis
• Finish
• He may be offensive
• Last gasp
• Sign off
• Wind up

More clues leading to the result PERISH

• Meet one's demise
• "Publish or ___"
• "___ the thought!"
• Alternative to publish
• Be totally destroyed
• Suffer ruin
• Bite the dust
• Cease to be
• ____ the thought!
• "... shall not ___ from ...": Lincoln

More clues leading to the result DECEASE

• Quietus
• Expire
• Dissolution.
• Demise.
• Death.
• Pass away.
• Die.
• Die
• Go to the Great Beyond
• Perish

More clues leading to the result PASSAWAY

• Vanish.
• Expire
• Buy the farm, so to speak

More clues leading to the result EXHALE

• Let out
• Let out air
• Lamaze instruction
• Yoga instruction
• Breathe out
• Terry McMillan's "Waiting to ___"
• "Waiting to ___" (1995 drama)
• Finish respiring
• Let the air out
• Yoga class instruction

More clues leading to the result PASSON

• Deliver, as information
• Impart
• Send along
• Decide not to take
• Decide not to use
• Relay, as information
• Relay
• Hand down
• Relay, as a message
• Don't go for