The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word PAN , but the solution may also be MINE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Go for the gold? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PAN | 37 % | 3 |
| MINE | 29 % | 4 |
| VIE | 15 % | 3 |
| COMPETE | 6 % | 7 |
| DIG | 6 % | 3 |
| RUSH | 4 % | 4 |
| CHEAPEN | 2 % | 7 |
| PROSPECT | 2 % | 8 |
Why may MINE be the right solution?
The answer to "Go for the gold?" is "MINE" because in this context, "mine" refers to a place where gold or other valuable minerals are extracted. It is a play on words, suggesting that one should go to a mine to find gold, rather than participating in a sports competition.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Go for the gold?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- go for gold
- go for the gold ring
- go for it
- strike gold
- go the extra mile
- go for broke
- give it one's best shot
- go all out
- play it for all it's worth
- reach for the sky
- do one's utmost
- go to the ends of the earth
Crossword Answer definitions
PAN noun- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
- Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- A loaf of bread.
- The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
- A human face, a mug.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- The brain, seen as one's intellect
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
- With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
- (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
- Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
- Meanings relating to a container.
- Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
- Meanings relating to computing.
- Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
- Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.
- To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- A part; a portion.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- Pansexual.
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 PAN
- Give one star to
- God often pictured with pipes
- Forty-niners tool
- Move while filming
- Play critic
- Scathing review
- Rotate the camera
- Omelet-maker's need, unless you boil your omelets or cook them in the toaster I suppose
- Critically disdain
- Muffin tin, e.g.
More clues leading to the result MINE
- Outfielder's call
- Alternative to "your place"
- Belonging to me
- Excavation
- "___ eyes have seen the glory..."
- Coal hole
- Not yours
- Source of gold
- Greedy kid's declaration
- Miser's word
More clues leading to the result VIE
More clues leading to the result COMPETE
- Play games?
- Vie
- Be rivals
- Go for the gold, e.g.
- Play games
- Audition, e.g.
- Struggle
- Play seriously
- Go for the gold
- Get in the running
More clues leading to the result DIG
- Archeological site
- Archaelogical site
- Excavate
- Flippant remark
- Really groove on
- Insult, or enjoy
- Go for the gold
- Groove on
- "You follow?"
- Get to the bottom of things?
More clues leading to the result RUSH
- First name in talk radio
- __-hour traffic
- First name in pontification
- Hurry
- 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- Kind of job that 20-Acrosses always feel like
- See 24-Down
- Advance on the gridiron
- Horsetail, for one
- Commuter convergence
More clues leading to the result CHEAPEN
- Depreciate
- See 38-Down
- Devalue
- Make tawdry
- Lower in esteem
- Demean
- Degrade
- Debase
- Belittle.
- Reduce price and quality.