The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word LAM , but the solution may also be ESCAPE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Flee crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LAM | 36 % | 3 |
| RUN | 12 % | 3 |
| ESCAPE | 8 % | 6 |
| BOLT | 7 % | 4 |
| HEADFORTHEHILLS | 3 % | 15 |
| RUNAWAY | 3 % | 7 |
| ABSCOND | 3 % | 7 |
| DECAMP | 3 % | 6 |
| SKEDADDLE | 2 % | 9 |
| FLYTHECOOP | 2 % | 10 |
| TURNTAIL | 2 % | 8 |
| VANISH | 2 % | 6 |
| HIGHTAILIT | 2 % | 10 |
| RUNOFF | 2 % | 6 |
| RUNFROM | 2 % | 7 |
| SKIPTOWN | 2 % | 8 |
| ELOPE | 2 % | 5 |
| MAKETRACKS | 2 % | 10 |
| SKEDDLE | 2 % | 7 |
| BURNRUBBER | 2 % | 10 |
| TAKETOTHEHILLS | 2 % | 14 |
| HITTHEROAD | 2 % | 10 |
Why may ESCAPE be the right solution?
"Escape" is the right answer because it means to flee or get away from a dangerous or threatening situation.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Flee
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- take flight
- fly
- absquatulate
- skedaddle
- elope
- jailbreak
- escaping
- escape
- abscond
- dodge
- elude
- exit
Crossword Answer definitions
LAM verb- To beat or thrash.
- To flee or run away.
- The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل. It is preceded by ك and followed by م.
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 LAM
- Beat it
- Escape
- Headlong flight
- Run for it
- Wallop
- Get out of town
- Skip town
- Take a powder
- Felon's exit
- Felonious flight
More clues leading to the result RUN
- Duration
- Compete in a race
- Flow
- Turn tail
- Beat a retreat
- Get cracking
- Series, in cards
- Go office-hunting?
- "___ and Tell That" ("Hairspray" song)
- Do like Santorum
More clues leading to the result ESCAPE
- Break loose
- Make like Houdini
- "The Great _____"
- Get out of Alcatraz, perhaps
- Break out
- Pleasant distraction
- "The 39 Steps" event
- "The Shawshank Redemption" climax
- Houdini feat
- Jailbreak
More clues leading to the result BOLT
- Cloth roll
- Nut's partner
- Cloth unit
- Wolf down
- Fabric measurement
- Make tracks
- Wolf (down)
- Run for it
- Neck ornament for Karloff
- Hightail it
More clues leading to the result HEADFORTHEHILLS
- "We gotta go, immediately!"
- Cut and run
- Leader's final exhortation to cohorts
- Flee
- Toilet, given to a Fox animated family?
- Flee (and what you must supply four times in this puzzle)
- Scram
- SPLIT
- "Let's get outta here!"
- Go
More clues leading to the result RUNAWAY
More clues leading to the result ABSCOND
- Skip town
- Scram after a scam
- Bolt from the blues
- Take the money and run
- Run away (with)
- Bolt
- Hurry off and hide
- Sneak off and hide
- Run off suddenly
- Leave with the loot
More clues leading to the result DECAMP
- Resume the hike, perhaps
- Pull up stakes
- Pull up stakes, perhaps
- Take down the tents and move on
- Put out the fire, pack up the tent, etc.
- Pack up the tents and supplies
- Abscond
- Abscond.
- Run away suddenly.
- Run away.
More clues leading to the result SKEDADDLE
- Get out in a hurry
- Take off
- "Go!"
- Hurry
- "Scram!"
- "Make yourself scarce!"
- Scoot away
- RUN along
- Run away, in Civil War slang.
- Run off
More clues leading to the result FLYTHECOOP
- Get away
- Get out of Dodge
- Steal away
- Escape
- Depart abruptly
- Make a break for it
- Take it on the lam.
- Scram
- Flee
More clues leading to the result TURNTAIL
- Run away
- Flee
- Beat a hasty retreat
- Prepare to flee
- Take flight
- Cut out
- Cut and run
- Take to one's heels.
- Coward
- Skedaddle
More clues leading to the result VANISH
- Go missing
- Be here and then gone
- Go for good
- Disappear
- Become invisible
- Go poof
- Disappear into thin air
- Slip away
- Get lost
- Go away
More clues leading to the result HIGHTAILIT
More clues leading to the result RUNOFF
- Abscond (with)
- Post-election election
- Heavy rain aftermath
- Split
- Elope.
- Decamp
- Flee
- Part two of an election
- Make copies of
More clues leading to the result RUNFROM
More clues leading to the result SKIPTOWN
- Get out under cover of night
- Get out in a hurry
- Flee
- Get out of the city, fugitive-style
- Take a powder
- Try to avoid arrest, perhaps
- Abscond
- Vamoose
More clues leading to the result ELOPE
- Bolt and hitch
- Flee to Gretna Green
- Forgo the reception
- Leave via ladder, perhaps
- Run away
- Run off to the J.P.
- Split to unite
- Take the honey and run?
- Marry in haste
- Run off
More clues leading to the result MAKETRACKS
- ...like a railroad worker?
- Scamper through the snow
- Leave in a hurry
- Hurry
- See 35 Across
- Leave quickly
- Go quickly
- Hurry up
- SCRAM
- Flee