The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REAPS , but the solution may also be INFERS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Gathers crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REAPS | 61 % | 5 |
| AMASSES | 7 % | 7 |
| INFERS | 7 % | 6 |
| DEDUCES | 7 % | 7 |
| CULLS | 5 % | 5 |
| ROUNDSUP | 2 % | 8 |
| SHIRRS | 2 % | 6 |
| COMPILES | 2 % | 8 |
| COLLECTS | 2 % | 8 |
| HERDS | 2 % | 5 |
| SEES | 2 % | 4 |
Why may INFERS be the right solution?
The word "infers" means to gather or conclude information based on evidence or reasoning. In this context, "gathers" can be synonymous with "infers," making it the right solution for the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gathers
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- forgather
- congregate
- collect
- foregather
- assemble
- conglomerate
- pull together
- cumulate
- amass
- accumulate
- pile up
- understand
Crossword Answer definitions
REAPS verb- To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine
- To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
- To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
- To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
- To deprive of the beard; to shave.
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 REAPS
- Swings a sickle
- Acquires, as profit
- Harvests
- Cuts the mustard?
- Does some field work
- Garners
- Gathers
- Brings in at harvest
- Brings in
- Brings in, as grains
More clues leading to the result AMASSES
- Collects
- Accumulates
- Brings together
- Gets it all together
- Stores up
- Makes a pile?
- Builds, as a fortune
- Doesn't distribute
- Racks up
- Stockpiles
More clues leading to the result INFERS
- Deduces
- Reasons by deduction
- Draws conclusions
- Surmises
- Derives using logic
- Assumes
- Works out
- Subtly points out
- Reasons out
- Draws a conclusion
More clues leading to the result DEDUCES
- Concludes
- Gathers
- Infers, à la Sherlock Holmes.
- Infers.
- Puts together
- Figures out
- Traces the derivation of
- Infers logically
- Susses out
More clues leading to the result CULLS
- Selects
- Cherry-picks
- Picks
- Selects carefully
- Gathers choice parts from
- Picks over
- Cherrypicks
- Picks out
- Weeds out.
- Selects.
More clues leading to the result ROUNDSUP
More clues leading to the result SHIRRS
- Gathers fabric decoratively
- Bakes eggs
- Bakes eggs, in a way
- Cooks eggs, in a way
- Bakes, as eggs
- Prepares eggs by baking
- Gathers cloth
- Cooks eggs in a certain way.
- Gathers.
- Bakes eggs.
More clues leading to the result COMPILES
More clues leading to the result COLLECTS
- Takes what's owed, as the leader in 2-Down frequently does to the point of tedium
- Passes the hat
- Accumulates
- Does a toll booth job
- Gets paid
- Opening prayers.
- Short prayers.
- Assembles
- Gets it all together
- Stashes
More clues leading to the result HERDS
- Tends sheep
- What a Sheltie does
- Droves
- Gathers Guernseys
- Crowds
- Buffalo bunches
- Cattle travel in them
- Range rovers
- Zebra groups
- Cattle collections