The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ESCAPES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2020.
Gets away crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ESCAPES | 42 % | 7 |
| FLEES | 42 % | 5 |
| LEAVESTHESCENE | 8 % | 14 |
| MAKESONESESCAPE | 8 % | 15 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gets away
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- eludes
- evades
- get away
- escaping
- escapes
- outruns
- elude
- flees
- absconds
- avoids
- disappears
- escape
Crossword Answer definitions
ESCAPES noun- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Escape key
- The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
- A sally.
- An apophyge.
- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
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 ESCAPES
- Flees
- Gets away
- Some are narrow
- Houdini's heroics
- Digs a tunnel, possibly
- Gets free
- Houdini feats
- Joint ventures?
- Manages to get away
- Bolts
More clues leading to the result FLEES
- Hightails it
- Gets lost
- Takes a powder
- Makes tracks
- Goes on the lam
- Skedaddles
- Gets away
- Skips town
- Takes off
- Makes a run for it