Answer to "Falters" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LAGS which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2004.

Falters crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
LAGS	40 %	4
HALTS	20 %	5
LIMPS	20 %	5
HESITATES	20 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Falters

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

• hesitation
• bumble
• stammer
• stutter
• stumble
• waver
• halts
• retreat
• retreated
• retreats
• weakens
• wobbles

Crossword Answer definitions

LAGS noun

1. A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
2. Delay; latency.
3. One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. A prisoner, a criminal.
5. A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
8. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
9. A bird, the greylag.

LAGS verb

1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
3. To transport as a punishment for crime.
4. To cause to lag; to slacken.

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 LAGS

• Is sluggish
• Runs behind
• Brings up the rear
• Dawdles
• Stays behind
• Falls behind
• Holds up
• Time delays
• Doesn't keep up
• Internet connectivity problems

More clues leading to the result HALTS

• Breaks off
• Cuts short
• Goes no farther
• Quits mid-march
• Arrests
• Comes to a stop
• Obeys a sentry
• Heeds the sentry
• Brakes
• Reaches a standstill

More clues leading to the result LIMPS

• Walks like Chester on Gunsmoke
• Barely gets (along)
• Favors the right, say
• Hobbles
• Doesn't run smoothly
• Favors one side
• Favors one leg
• Favors one side?
• Hobbles along
• Walks unevenly

More clues leading to the result HESITATES

• Shows uncertainty
• Doesn't act just yet
• Demurs.
• Falters.
• Cranes: Hunting term.
• Holds back; demurs
• Hangs back
• Thinks twice, perhaps