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 |
| IGNITE | 1 % | 6 |
| SHOOTFROMTHEHIP | 1 % | 15 |
| ELAN | 1 % | 4 |
| DISMISSFROMAJOB | 1 % | 15 |
| 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 |
| DROPTHEAX | 0 % | 9 |
| VEHEMENCY | 0 % | 9 |
| VIM | 0 % | 3 |
| DISMISS | 0 % | 7 |
| FLAME | 0 % | 5 |
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 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 ELAN
More clues leading to the result DISMISSFROMAJOB
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
More clues leading to the result GIVETHESACK
More clues leading to the result EXCITE
More clues leading to the result BOOT
- Trunk in Soho
- Trunk?
- Car trunk, to a Brit
- Unceremonious pink slip
- Shape of some novelty beer steins
- 55 Down's shape
- Wellington, for one
- Sorel product
- Ugg product
- Work as a kicker
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