The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word CAN , but the solution may also be ZEAL which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Fire crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CAN | 24 % | 3 |
| AXE | 24 % | 3 |
| ARDOR | 11 % | 5 |
| ZEAL | 11 % | 4 |
| SACK | 10 % | 4 |
| LETGO | 4 % | 5 |
| BLAZE | 3 % | 5 |
| SHOOT | 2 % | 5 |
| PASSION | 1 % | 7 |
| ELAN | 1 % | 4 |
| DISMISSFROMAJOB | 1 % | 15 |
| IGNITE | 1 % | 6 |
| SHOOTFROMTHEHIP | 1 % | 15 |
| DROPTHEAX | 0 % | 9 |
| VEHEMENCY | 0 % | 9 |
| VIM | 0 % | 3 |
| DISMISS | 0 % | 7 |
| FLAME | 0 % | 5 |
| GIVETHEAXETO | 0 % | 12 |
| LAYOFF | 0 % | 6 |
| PEP | 0 % | 3 |
| ANIMATE | 0 % | 7 |
| SIGMA | 0 % | 5 |
| BTS | 0 % | 3 |
| CONFLAGRATION | 0 % | 13 |
| AWAY | 0 % | 4 |
| GIVETHESACK | 0 % | 11 |
| EXCITE | 0 % | 6 |
| BOOT | 0 % | 4 |
Why may ARDOR be the right solution?
"Fire" is a synonym for "ardor", which means intense passion or enthusiasm. Therefore, "ardor" is an appropriate answer to the crossword clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fire
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- flame
- flaming
- burn
- blast
- ardor
- fuel
- ardour
- flak
- attack
- sack
- kindle
- fervor
Crossword Answer definitions
CAN verb- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
- To know.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
- Buttocks.
- Jail or prison.
- (in the plural) Headphones.
- A drinking cup.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- (in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- To seal in a can.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To shut up.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To hole the ball.
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 CAN
- Food holder
- Lay off
- Fire
- Pantry item
- Preserve
- Dismiss
- Issue walking papers to
- Recyclable item
- Recycled item
- Soup unit
More clues leading to the result AXE
- Boot out
- Bunyan's tool
- Cut
- Fire
- Fireman's tool
- Give the boot
- Paul Bunyan's tool
- Show the door to
- Chop
- Cleaver
More clues leading to the result ARDOR
- Intense devotion
- Intense feeling
- Strong devotion
- Zeal
- Passion
- Rapture
- Hotness
- Intense passion
- Intensity
- Fervid feeling
More clues leading to the result ZEAL
- Fanaticism
- Fervor
- Passion
- Ardor
- Devotion, and then some
- Enthusiasm
- Evangelism
- Gung-ho feeling
- Pep
- What-it-takes
More clues leading to the result SACK
- Sad __ (inept one)
- Give the ax to
- Paper bag
- Potato holder
- Tackle the quarterback
- Ax
- Bag
- Potato purchase
- Container
- Style of loose dress
More clues leading to the result LETGO
- Fire
- Release
- Command said while hitting someone with your purse
- Don't be inhibited
- Downsized
- Released
- Given one's walking papers
- Taken off the payroll
- "Turn loose!"
- Dismiss
More clues leading to the result BLAZE
- Conflagration
- Burn brightly
- Burn bright
- Flame up
- Glowing light
- Light up
- Strong flame
- Trail marker
- Flame gone wild
- Fire engine destination
More clues leading to the result SHOOT
- Film session
- Take pictures
- Use a camera
- Small sprout
- "Gol-durn!"
- Session with a photog
- "Tell me"
- "Go ahead, ask"
- "Darn it!"
- Pull the trigger
More clues leading to the result PASSION
- Intense emotion
- Fervor
- Elizabeth Taylor perfume
- Representation of Jesus's sufferings
- Ardor
- Cherished activity
- Depth of feeling
- Zeal
- ___ pit (drive-in movie theater, in older slang)
- Emotion of compelling force.
More clues leading to the result ELAN
More clues leading to the result DISMISSFROMAJOB
More clues leading to the result IGNITE
- Set afire
- Set off
- Spark up
- Set ablaze
- Set 3-Down to
- Put a match to
- Start burning
- Touch off
- Begin burning
- Set on fire
More clues leading to the result SHOOTFROMTHEHIP
- Speak directly and frankly
- Act without thinking
- Speak without thinking
- Advice from Cupid?
- Be forthright
- Speak hastily
- Call a spade a spade
- Phrase of last election campaign.
- Emulate Jesse James
- Act impetuously, N.R.A. style?
More clues leading to the result DROPTHEAX
More clues leading to the result VEHEMENCY
More clues leading to the result VIM
- Zip
- Pep
- High spirits
- Get-up-and-go
- Energy
- Liveliness
- Vigour
- Dash
- Lively spirit
- It helps one accomplish a goal
More clues leading to the result DISMISS
- Throw out, as a court case
- Brush aside
- Not consider seriously
- Allow to leave
- Let go
- Synonym for the first words of 17- and 54-Across and 11- and 31-Down
- Don't take seriously
- Sneeze at
- Send away, as a class
- Bounce
More clues leading to the result FLAME
- Blaze
- Internet insult
- Sweetheart
- __-retardant
- Suitor
- Pilot, e.g.
- Taper topper
- Heartthrob
- Olympic symbol
- Dis online
More clues leading to the result GIVETHEAXETO
More clues leading to the result LAYOFF
- "Stop bothering me!"
- Let go
- "Stop bugging me!"
- Fire
- Take a break
- Dismiss temporarily
- Cease: Suffix.
- Respite.
- Stop work.
- Recessionary ill
More clues leading to the result PEP
- Get-up-and-go
- Kind of talk or pill
- High spirits
- Kind of pill or talk
- Kind of talk
- Energy
- The ___ Boys
- Vigor
- Zing
- Energy at rallies
More clues leading to the result ANIMATE
- Do cartooning
- Enliven
- Put in cels
- Give life-like qualities to
- Able to move
- Work for Disney
- Work for Warner Brothers, maybe
- Lively
- Get things moving
- Work on a Pixar movie
More clues leading to the result SIGMA
- Greek letter
- Standard deviation symbol
- Symbol of summation
- Greek consonant
- Letter after rho
- Rho follower
- Frat letter
- Greek letter meaning "sum" in math
- "The Sweetheart of ___ Chi"
- Letter on a frat house
More clues leading to the result BTS
- Yachts and sloops (abbr.)
- Spt. sights
- Fire
- Baronets: Abbr.
- Titled men: Abbr.
- British titles: Abbr.
- British peers: Abbr.
- Certain noblemen: Abbr.
- Divinity degrees
- Hereditary Br. titles
More clues leading to the result CONFLAGRATION
More clues leading to the result AWAY
- 1992 Tom Cruise film "Far and ___"
- Elsewhere
- Absent
- Missing
- On a sabbatical
- On the road
- Out of town
- Tom Cruise movie "Far and ___"
- First to putt
- Playing in someone else's stadium