The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word RAGE , but the solution may also be BLOW A GASKET which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Go ballistic crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RAGE | 31 % | 4 |
| RANT | 17 % | 4 |
| SNAP | 10 % | 4 |
| LOSEIT | 7 % | 6 |
| ERUPT | 7 % | 5 |
| SEERED | 6 % | 6 |
| RAVE | 6 % | 4 |
| RAISECAIN | 2 % | 9 |
| FLIP | 2 % | 4 |
| HITTHECEILING | 2 % | 13 |
| ARC | 2 % | 3 |
| HAVEACOW | 2 % | 8 |
| BOIL | 1 % | 4 |
| LOSECONTROL | 1 % | 11 |
| BLOWUP | 1 % | 6 |
| BLOW A GASKET | 1 % | 13 |
| BLOWONESSTACK | 1 % | 13 |
| HITTHEROOF | 1 % | 10 |
| LOSEONESHEAD | 1 % | 12 |
| HAVEAFIT | 1 % | 8 |
| RANTANDRAVE | 1 % | 11 |
Why may BLOW-A-GASKET be the right solution?
The phrase "blow a gasket" is a common idiom meaning to become extremely angry or lose control of one's emotions, which fits the clue "Go ballistic" well.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Go ballistic
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- explosive
- explosively
- bombastic
- bombastically
- run amok
- aggressive
- belligerent
- explode
- lash out
- exploding
- furious
- rampaging
Crossword Answer definitions
RAGE noun- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- A current fashion or fad.
- Any vehement passion.
- To act or speak in heightened anger.
- (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- To enrage.
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 RAGE
- Blow a gasket
- Explode
- Fury
- Fuss and fume
- Go crazy
- Have a fit of anger
- In thing
- Rant and rave
- Road ___
- Throw a tantrum
More clues leading to the result RANT
- Get hot under the collar
- Give a fire-and-brimstone sermon
- Rave
- Rave's partner
- Carry on
- Companion of rave
- Speak wildly
- Long lecture
- Babble on
- Deliver a diatribe
More clues leading to the result SNAP
- One of the Rice Krispies sounds
- A Rice Krispies sound
- Coat closer
- Kind of cookie
- Lose it
- Sodium hydroxide
- Cookie variety
- Crackle's colleague
- Fastener
- Jacket fastener
More clues leading to the result LOSEIT
More clues leading to the result ERUPT
- Break out
- Emerge violently
- Explode
- Go ballistic
- Blow
- Blow one's top
- Shoot out flames
- Do as Pinatubo did
- Burst
- Become active, as a volcano
More clues leading to the result SEERED
- Ticked off
- Get really steamed
- Do a slow burn
- Become enraged
- Fume
- Lose one's cool
- Get mad
- Be irate
- Get really ticked off
- Become really angry
More clues leading to the result RAVE
- Carry on
- Great review
- Like some reviews
- Modern bash
- Rant's partner
- Stellar review
- Thumbs-up, and then some
- Boffo review
- Express great enthusiasm
- Highly complimentary
More clues leading to the result RAISECAIN
- Engage in trickery
- Cause trouble of Biblical proportions?
- Rant and rave
- Complain angrily
- Run riot
- Become angry
- Engage in high jinks
- Go ballistic
- Behave boisterously
- Cause an uproar of Biblical proportions?
More clues leading to the result FLIP
- Beginning of rubber sandals, (with 46D)
- Impromptu decision-maker
- Somersault
- Kind of chart or side
- "Dancing With the Stars" move
- Cheeky
- Decide with a coin
- Go head over heels
- Insolent
- Wilson
More clues leading to the result HITTHECEILING
- Lose one's temper
- Get mad
- The walls got furious and literally __
- ...like Michelangelo?
- Become very irate
- Lose it
- Go ballistic
- Lost one's temper: Slang.
- See red
- The short-tempered fellow ___
More clues leading to the result ARC
- Kind of lamp
- Circle part
- Crescent line
- Curvature
- Fire from a wire
- Lob's path
- Rainbow path
- Circle segment
- Curve
- Curvy path
More clues leading to the result HAVEACOW
More clues leading to the result BOIL
- See red
- Seethe
- Lance target
- One way to cook
- Lancer's item
- Distill, in a way
- Start to steam
- Go ballistic
- Prepare, as pasta
- Go beyond simmering
More clues leading to the result LOSECONTROL
More clues leading to the result BLOWUP
- Enlarge
- Enlarge, as a photo
- Hit the roof
- Temper tantrum
- Go ballistic
- Destroy with dynamite
- Big argument
- Photo enlargement
- Have a tantrum
- Arise, as a storm.
More clues leading to the result BLOW A GASKET
More clues leading to the result BLOWONESSTACK
More clues leading to the result HITTHEROOF
- Was angry to the max
- The elevator operator __
- What an angry Santa might do?
- The contractor __
- Get angry
- Get really mad
- Elevate oneself, in a way.
- Go ballistic