The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MEND , but the solution may also be RIG which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Fix crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MEND | 19 % | 4 |
| RIG | 15 % | 3 |
| REPAIR | 14 % | 6 |
| SPAY | 7 % | 4 |
| JAM | 4 % | 3 |
| AMEND | 4 % | 5 |
| EMEND | 4 % | 5 |
| NEUTER | 3 % | 6 |
| REDO | 3 % | 4 |
| DESEX | 2 % | 5 |
| CURE | 2 % | 4 |
| ARRANGE | 2 % | 7 |
| SET | 2 % | 3 |
| REMEDY | 2 % | 6 |
| SCRAPE | 1 % | 6 |
| FASTEN | 1 % | 6 |
| MESS | 1 % | 4 |
| DILEMMA | 1 % | 7 |
| SETRIGHT | 1 % | 8 |
| ALTER | 1 % | 5 |
| DARN | 1 % | 4 |
| POSIT | 1 % | 5 |
| CORRECT | 1 % | 7 |
| CONCENTRATE | 1 % | 11 |
| TAMPERWITHARACE | 0 % | 15 |
| HOTWATER | 0 % | 8 |
| SPOT | 0 % | 4 |
| HAMMERINTOPLACE | 0 % | 15 |
| ADJUST | 0 % | 6 |
| ANCHOR | 0 % | 6 |
| RIVET | 0 % | 5 |
| EMBED | 0 % | 5 |
| SUIT | 0 % | 4 |
| SETTLEBLAMEUPON | 0 % | 15 |
| PATCHUP | 0 % | 7 |
| GELD | 0 % | 4 |
| PUT | 0 % | 3 |
| PIN | 0 % | 3 |
| BIND | 0 % | 4 |
| TIGHTSCRAPE | 0 % | 11 |
| ATTACH | 0 % | 6 |
| DEFINE | 0 % | 6 |
| HOLDATRUECOURSE | 0 % | 15 |
| MENDORBREAK | 0 % | 11 |
| ASSIGN | 0 % | 6 |
| PATCH | 0 % | 5 |
Why may RIG be the right solution?
"Fix" can mean to manipulate or arrange something in a dishonest or unfair way, which is synonymous with "rig."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fix
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fasten
- hole
- sterilize
- touch on
- set
- desex
- muddle
- situate
- mess
- determine
- make
- desexualize
Crossword Answer definitions
MEND noun- A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
- The act of repairing.
- To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
- To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
- To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
- To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
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 MEND
- Fix
- Patch up
- Repair
- Darn
- Knit
- Patch
- Tape up
- Repair, as fences (real or metaphorical)
- On the __ (recuperating)
- Convalesce
More clues leading to the result RIG
- Fix, as a fight
- Manipulate
- An 18-wheeler, to its driver
- Offshore structure
- Put in the fix
- Set a sail
- Tractor-trailer
- Gear up
- Fit out
- Fix, in a way
More clues leading to the result REPAIR
- Patch up
- Fix
- Job for Mr. Fix-It
- Make right
- Part 2 of the quote
- Word beyond beyond
- Make like new
- Mend
- Patch
- Get to work again
More clues leading to the result SPAY
- Alter an Airedale
- Fix
- Fix, as Fifi
- Be a responsible pet owner, in a way
- Neuter
- Alter kitty
- Fix Fifi
- Fix a hot dog?
- Fix, in a way
- Fix, in a sense
More clues leading to the result JAM
- Compress
- Bread spread
- Crush
- Gridlock
- Predicament
- Tight spot
- Toast topper
- Strawberry or blueberry spread
- Traffic trouble
- What the Grateful Dead liked to do?
More clues leading to the result AMEND
More clues leading to the result EMEND
- Correct
- Fix the copy
- Improve, in a way
- Adjust
- Fix
- Change one's story?
- Correct, as text
- Correct or improve
- Revise
- Revise editorially
More clues leading to the result NEUTER
- Grammatical gender
- Spay
- Just like it?
- Like some German nouns
- Like "it," but not "him" or "her"
- What "it" is
- Keep from reproducing
- Like "it"
- Like worker bees
- Not masculine or feminine
More clues leading to the result REDO
- Make over
- Make revisions to
- Second draft
- Start all over
- Change decorations
- Change the decor
- Decorate anew
- Fix
- Start from scratch
- Start from square one
More clues leading to the result DESEX
- Fix
- Spay or neuter
- Emasculate
- Remove some perceived discrimination from, as language
- Spay
- Neuter
- Make gender-neutral
- Make less of a man
- "Fix" a pet
- See 23-Across
More clues leading to the result CURE
- Medical researcher's goal
- Medical researcher's quest
- Preserve meat
- No placebo
- Preserve
- Make well
- Treat (meat)
- Use the smokehouse
- Make all better
- "Lovesong" singers, with "the"
More clues leading to the result ARRANGE
More clues leading to the result SET
- Challenging card game
- Complete group
- Congeal
- Gel
- Get firm
- Jet follower
- Kind of point or shot
- Play opener
- Salon job
- Solidify
More clues leading to the result REMEDY
- Licorice paste for calluses, e.g.
- Cure
- "There is no ___ for love but to love more" (Thoreau)
- Medical solution
- Pain reliever, e.g.
- It's good for what ails you
- Treatment that works
- Put right
- Healer's offering
- Correct
More clues leading to the result SCRAPE
- Predicament
- Pickle
- Awkward situation
- Eke
- Abrasion
- ___ up (gather with difficulty)
- Embarrassing situation
- Jam or pickle
- Kid's frequent knee injury
- Clear of snow, as a windshield
More clues leading to the result FASTEN
- Button up
- Secure
- Tie up
- Attach
- Connect, as a 31-Across
- Snap or staple
- Buckle up
- Click together
- Lock into place
- Join together
More clues leading to the result MESS
- Boot-camp fare
- Interfere
- Military meal
- Not a pretty sight
- Quantico cuisine
- Recruit's dinner
- Shambles
- Teen's room, often
- Army chow
- Predicament
More clues leading to the result DILEMMA
- Problem with horns?
- Thorny problem
- Predicament
- Perplexing choice
- Quandary
- Choice between two equally bad options
- Choosing between two evils, say
- Catch-22
- Perplexing problem
- Fix
More clues leading to the result SETRIGHT
More clues leading to the result ALTER
- Make suit, as a suit
- Modify
- Take out or in
- Take in or let out
- Make fit
- Take in, perhaps
- Take up
- Modify, as a dress
- Let out, perhaps
- Do some remodeling
More clues leading to the result DARN
- Fix
- Repair a stocking
- Repair socks
- Do mending
- Fix a hole
- Word said while snapping fingers
- Phooey
- Sock-mender's oath?
- "Well, heck!"
- "Fiddlesticks!"
More clues leading to the result POSIT
- Assume
- Put forth
- Take as a given
- Propose as an explanation
- Situate
- Hypothesize
- Put philosophically
- Assume as a fact
- Assume as fact
- Assume for the sake of argument
More clues leading to the result CORRECT
More clues leading to the result CONCENTRATE
More clues leading to the result TAMPERWITHARACE
More clues leading to the result HOTWATER
- Serious trouble
- Trouble
- Big trouble
- Trouble, so to speak
- Deep trouble
- *Big trouble
- *Deep trouble
- Big trouble, so to speak
- A spot
- What skating on thin ice might get you into?
More clues leading to the result SPOT
- Dalmatian's name?
- Dry-cleaner's target
- Good name for a leopard?
- It may be soft or sweet
- Locale
- TV commercial
- "See __ run"
- Dick and Jane's dog
- Dick's dog
- Pet's name
More clues leading to the result HAMMERINTOPLACE
More clues leading to the result ADJUST
- Fine-tune
- Tweak
- Make a minor correction to
- Calibrate
- Set right
- Tune
- Fix
- Make minor changes
- Reset, as the time
- Become adapted
More clues leading to the result ANCHOR
- Relay's last runner
- *Relay-team position
- Popeye's tattoo
- Rather, Jennings, or Brokaw
- News head
- Hold fast
- Mainstay
- Newscast VIP
- Coveted news job
- Person at the end of a tug-of-war rope
More clues leading to the result RIVET
- Fasten firmly
- Headed bolt
- Focus
- Hold one's attention
- Enrapture
- Transfix
- Fastener for Rosie
- Girder securer
- Metallic binder
- Fastener
More clues leading to the result EMBED
- Enclose firmly
- Fix firmly in a surrounding mass
- Plant firmly (into)
- Enclose deep within
- Enclose snugly
- Implant
- Set in
- Fix firmly
- Fix securely
- Certain overseas reporter
More clues leading to the result SUIT
- Clubs or spades, but not saws
- Wall-Street type
- Management type
- Word with birthday or union
- Businesswear
- Appeal, e.g. (as a noun), or appeal to (as a verb)
- Deck division
- Exec
- Hearts, for example
- Part of a bridge bid
More clues leading to the result SETTLEBLAMEUPON
More clues leading to the result PATCHUP
More clues leading to the result GELD
- Neuter, as a male horse
- Fix once and for all?
- Neuter, as horses
- Emasculate
- Neuter, as a horse
- Subdue
- Weaken
- Fix, in a way
- Neuter, as a stallion
- Neuter, horsewise
More clues leading to the result PUT
- Place
- Situate
- Seller's option
- Placed (down)
- Stock option verb
- Set (down)
- Heave the shot
- Find a spot for
- Deposit
- Phrase
More clues leading to the result PIN
- 5D need
- Brooch
- Fastener
- Rolling ___
- Split component
- ATM entry
- Bowler's target
- 1" badge, say
- A.T.M. need
- ATM no.
More clues leading to the result BIND
- Tie up
- Tie tightly
- Cause to cohere
- Tough situation
- Wrap tightly
- Predicament
- Secure with ropes
- Tie together
- Spot of trouble
- Scrape
More clues leading to the result TIGHTSCRAPE
More clues leading to the result ATTACH
- Garnish, as wages
- Stick to
- Append
- Glom on to
- Add on
- Include, as with an email
- Clip on
- Make fast
- Staple
- Use a binder clip
More clues leading to the result DEFINE
- Give meaning to
- Explain
- Specify
- Give the meaning of
- Write a crossword clue
- Determine the nature of
- Fix precisely
- State the meaning of
- "If you wish to converse with me, ___ your terms."—Voltaire.
- State the meaning of.
More clues leading to the result HOLDATRUECOURSE
More clues leading to the result MENDORBREAK
More clues leading to the result ASSIGN
- Allot
- Delegate
- Give as a task
- Allocate
- Select for duty
- Hand out, as homework
- Give, as homework
- Give out
- Give out, as a task
- Transfer, as rights