The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word AVIATE , but the solution may also be SOAR which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Fly crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AVIATE | 61 % | 6 |
| SOAR | 10 % | 4 |
| TSETSE | 4 % | 6 |
| WING | 2 % | 4 |
| TEAR | 2 % | 4 |
| PILOT | 1 % | 5 |
| JET | 1 % | 3 |
| SPIDERSINVITEE | 1 % | 14 |
| TROUTTEMPTATION | 1 % | 15 |
| ASCENDONWINGS | 1 % | 13 |
| SPECKONTHEWALL | 1 % | 14 |
| TAKEWING | 1 % | 8 |
| TEXASLEAGUER | 1 % | 12 |
| BUZZINGNUISANCE | 1 % | 15 |
| OINTMENTSPOILER | 1 % | 15 |
| MIDGE | 1 % | 5 |
| SWATTERTARGET | 1 % | 13 |
| RACE | 1 % | 4 |
| HIE | 1 % | 3 |
| RACEWITHTHEWIND | 1 % | 15 |
| SWATTERSTARGET | 1 % | 14 |
| GNAT | 1 % | 4 |
| ZIPPEREDCLOSING | 1 % | 15 |
| OBSERVERONAWALL | 1 % | 15 |
| BLUEBOTTLE | 1 % | 10 |
| OUTFIELDERCATCH | 1 % | 15 |
| BE FREE! | 1 % | 8 |
| MAKEHASTE | 1 % | 9 |
| FISHERMANSLURE | 1 % | 14 |
Why may AVIATE be the right solution?
"Fly" is a verb that means to operate an aircraft. "Aviate" is a synonym for "fly" and means to operate an aircraft in flight, making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fly
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- wing
- fell
- fly sheet
- take flight
- pilot
- aviate
- vanish
- flee
- alert
- fly ball
- fly front
- tent-fly
Crossword Answer definitions
AVIATE verb- To operate an aircraft.
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 AVIATE
- Emulate Earhart
- Pilot
- Get some air
- Go toward a touchdown?
- Go up
- Play an ace?
- Soar
- Take to the skies
- Work for United
- Fly
More clues leading to the result SOAR
- Fly high
- Fly like a glider
- Fly like an eagle
- Increase dramatically
- Rise suddenly
- Take wing
- Make like an eagle
- Parasail
- See 12D
- Fly, like an eagle
More clues leading to the result TSETSE
- African bloodsucker
- Bloodsucking fly
- Fearless flyer?
- Sleeping-sickness carrier
- African fly
- Dangerous buzzer
- Plague maker in Africa
- Plague of Africa
- Fly over the Equator
- Dangerous fly
More clues leading to the result WING
- Buffalo ___
- Throw
- Airfoil
- Flapper?
- Addition
- Buck's partner
- Injure slightly, in a gunfight
- Hockey position
- Chicken piece
- KFC selection
More clues leading to the result TEAR
- Eye drop
- Kind of gas
- Sorrowful drop
- Certain drop
- Eyedrop?
- Pull apart
- React to onion-slicing
- Rip apart
- Speed
- Dotted-line instruction
More clues leading to the result PILOT
- Automatic __ (navigation system)
- Cockpit guide
- Wiley Post, once
- Series sample
- 747 flier
- American worker?
- Spirit employee
- Virgin handler
- Airline employee
- TV trial balloon
More clues leading to the result JET
- New York gridder
- O'Hare regular
- Nozzle shot
- Squirt
- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" band
- Essence rival
- Its first issue featured Sugar Ray Robinson's wife Edna on the cover
- Mark Sanchez, e.g.
- New Meadowlands Stadium athlete
- Pitchy
More clues leading to the result SPIDERSINVITEE
More clues leading to the result TROUTTEMPTATION
More clues leading to the result ASCENDONWINGS
More clues leading to the result SPECKONTHEWALL
More clues leading to the result TAKEWING
More clues leading to the result TEXASLEAGUER
- Ball that falls between an infielder and an outfielder
- Short outfield hit.
- Fly that irks a fielder.
- Base-hit
- Hard chance at Shea
- Fly
More clues leading to the result BUZZINGNUISANCE
More clues leading to the result OINTMENTSPOILER
More clues leading to the result MIDGE
- Pesky fly
- Friend of Barbie
- Winged nuisance
- Pesky biter
- Girl in the Archie comics
- Little pest
- Tiny fly
- Tiny biter
- Mosquito-like insect
- Gnatlike insect
More clues leading to the result SWATTERTARGET
More clues leading to the result RACE
- 440 or marathon
- Daytona event
- Indy, for one
- Marathon
- Meet event
- It may be three-legged
- Mile or 10K
- Compete
- Compete with Unser
- Indy 500
More clues leading to the result HIE
- Get a move on
- Step on it
- Get the lead out
- Hasten
- Hurry
- Hurry, old style
- Not dawdle
- Shakespeare's "Move it!"
- Go quickly
- Go rapidly
More clues leading to the result RACEWITHTHEWIND
More clues leading to the result SWATTERSTARGET
More clues leading to the result GNAT
- Airborne pest
- Annoying insect
- Biting insect
- Pesky insect
- Swarming insect
- Tiny insect
- Flying pest
- Mini mosquito
- Pesky flier
- Small annoyance