The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WANE which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Fade crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| WANE | 18 % | 4 |
| TIRE | 18 % | 4 |
| EBB | 14 % | 3 |
| WILT | 14 % | 4 |
| DIE | 14 % | 3 |
| WEAKEN | 7 % | 6 |
| SCRAM | 4 % | 5 |
| DIEOUT | 4 % | 6 |
| PALE | 4 % | 4 |
| GROWDIM | 4 % | 7 |
Why may WANE be the right solution?
"WANE" is the right solution because "fade" and "wane" are synonyms, both indicating a gradual decrease in intensity or brightness.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fade
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- languish
- wither
- evanesce
- disappearance
- pass off
- blow over
- pass
- slice
- fade out
- fleet
- weakening
- weaken
Crossword Answer definitions
WANE noun- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
- The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
- The end of a period.
- A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
- To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
- Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
- Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
- Said of a time period that comes to an end.
- To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
- To cause to decrease.
- A child.
- A house or dwelling.
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 WANE
- Wax counterpart
- Decrease
- Ease off
- Slack off
- Wax's counterpart
- Decline
- Alternative to wax
- Begin to fade
- Diminish
- Draw to a close
More clues leading to the result TIRE
- Get bored
- It's a spare for a flat
- Poop out
- Run out of gas
- Trunk item
- Be fed up with
- Wear down
- Wear out
- Fatigue
- Akron export
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result WILT
- Go limp
- Lakers' legend Chamberlain
- Droop
- Languish
- Fade like a flower
- Lose freshness
- ___ "The Stilt" Chamberlain
- Ebb
- Hoops great Chamberlain
- React to high humidity
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 WEAKEN
More clues leading to the result SCRAM
- "Get lost!"
- "Hit the road!"
- Abrupt farewell
- Parting word, of sorts
- "Step off!"
- "Git!"
- "Beat it!"
- "Get outta here, kid! You're bothering me"
- "I said 'go!'"
- Word to a pest
More clues leading to the result DIEOUT
- Become extinct
- Go the way of the dodo
- Cool off, as a fad
- Fade away
- Fade to nothing
- Prove unsustainable
- Disappear.
- Emulate the dodo
- Fade
- Go extinct
More clues leading to the result PALE
- Color deficient
- Whitish in complexion
- Ashen
- Hardly rosy-cheeked
- Lighten up?
- Like Andy Warhol
- "____ Rider"
- 1985 Clint Eastward western, "____ Rider"
- Deficient in color
- Lacking color