The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PATSY , but the solution may also be PATSY Down which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Fall guy crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PATSY | 27 % | 5 |
| GOAT | 19 % | 4 |
| ADAM | 11 % | 4 |
| SCAPEGOAT | 9 % | 9 |
| SAP | 8 % | 3 |
| CHUMP | 6 % | 5 |
| STOOGE | 5 % | 6 |
| RAKER | 3 % | 5 |
| DUPE | 3 % | 4 |
| STUNTMAN | 2 % | 8 |
| SKYDIVER | 1 % | 8 |
| JACKFROST | 1 % | 9 |
| SACRIFICIALLAMB | 1 % | 15 |
| STUMBLER | 1 % | 8 |
| TRIPPER | 1 % | 7 |
| HUMPTYDUMPTY | 1 % | 12 |
| MARK | 1 % | 4 |
| PATSY Down | 1 % | 40 |
| LIBRA | 1 % | 5 |
| HUMPTY | 1 % | 6 |
| TOOL | 1 % | 4 |
Why may PATSY-DOWN be the right solution?
The term "patsy" is often used to refer to someone who is easily tricked or blamed for something they did not do, making them a suitable "fall guy" for the actual culprit. Therefore, "Fall guy" is a synonym for "PATSY".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fall guy
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mug
- soft touch
- chump
- fool
- schlemiel
- mark
- sucker
- shlemiel
- fish
- gull
- patsy
- gulpin
Crossword Answer definitions
PATSY noun- A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.
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 PATSY
- Sucker
- "Crazy" singer Cline
- "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline
- Dupe
- Fall guy
- Easy mark
- Cline of country
- Pushover
- Swindler's victim
- Easily duped sort
More clues leading to the result GOAT
- Blame-taker
- Capricorn
- Hero's opposite
- Tin-can eater, in cartoons
- Hollow-horned, bearded ruminant
- Niagara River "Island"
- One with kids
- Fall guy
- Victim
- Billy the kid?
More clues leading to the result ADAM
- Brother of Hoss
- Economist Smith
- First man
- First mate?
- First of men
- One of the Cartwright boys
- Prime mister
- "Batman" portrayer West
- "Bonanza" son
- "___ 12"
More clues leading to the result SCAPEGOAT
- Fall guy
- Person to blame
- On whose head lies the sins of others.
- Relative of a fall guy.
- Current best-seller (with "The").
- Fall guy.
- Victim of a sort
- Blame unjustly
- Butt
- Patsy
More clues leading to the result SAP
More clues leading to the result CHUMP
More clues leading to the result STOOGE
- Straight man
- Curly, e.g.
- Howard, Howard, or Fine
- Complete idiot
- Larry or Moe
- Bozo
- Willing butt of gags
- Flunky
- Slapstick trio member
- Comic underling
More clues leading to the result RAKER
- October yard worker
- Leaf collector
- Croupier, often
- Groundskeeper in the fall
- Suburbanite, on some autumn days
- Fall guy?
- Gardener, at times
- Autumn suburbanite, often
- Autumn lawn tender
- Autumn yard worker
More clues leading to the result DUPE
More clues leading to the result STUNTMAN
- Daredevil
- One with double duties
- Nonspeaking movie role
- Fall guy?
- Daredevil.
- Actor's stand-in
- Movie double, often
- Double, maybe
- One who falls for a star?
- Dar Robinson
e.g.
More clues leading to the result SKYDIVER
- Bush 41 was one when he was 80
- High jumper?
- Aeronautical daredevil
- Daredevil of a kind
- High jumper of a sort
- One ready to take a fall?
- Parachutist
- Fall guy?
More clues leading to the result JACKFROST
- Nose nipper of song
- Fall guy?
- Nose nipper in a Christmas song
- Guy "nipping at your nose," in a holiday song
- Nose nipper
- Cold weather, in person.
- Personification of winter.
- Original quick-freeze.
- "___ nipping at your nose"
- Figure often mentioned by meteorologists
More clues leading to the result SACRIFICIALLAMB
- Person offered in homage
- Hapless victim
- Fall guy of a sort
- Offering at the altar
- One given up for good?
- Offering
- Something offered for the common good
- Fall guy
- One "thrown under the bus"
More clues leading to the result STUMBLER
More clues leading to the result TRIPPER
- The Beatles' "Day __"
- Dancer of a kind
- Fall initiator, perhaps
- Fall guy?
- Beatles "Day ___"
- Beatles hit: "Day ___"
More clues leading to the result HUMPTYDUMPTY
- Fall guy?
- Bringer of scrambled eggs?
- Ovoid nursery rhyme character
- Start of a nursery rhyme
- Noted sitter
- Fabled fall guy
- TIRED OF BREAKING UP! Separated white male, looking for togetherness ...
- Subject of this puzzle
- *Nursery rhyme character seen in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass"
- Broken thing
More clues leading to the result MARK
- Gospel author
- Preceder of up or down
- Baseball's McGuire
- "Uptown Funk" collaborator Ronson
- Letter from the teacher
- Zynga founder Pincus
- The __ of Zorro
- German currency
- Characteristic
- Abstract painter Tobey
More clues leading to the result PATSY Down
More clues leading to the result LIBRA
- Fall baby
- Scales, in the zodiac
- October 1 baby
- The only inanimate sign of the zodiac
- Don DeLillo novel about Lee Harvey Oswald
- Sign of fall
- Eminem, Snoop Dogg, or Will Smith
- One who hates being alone, astrologically
- Certain sign
- Astrologer's scales
More clues leading to the result HUMPTY
- First name of a kiddie lit egg
- Half of a well-known egghead.
- Ill-fated egg, with 22 Across
- Fall guy?
- ___ Dumpty