The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BEEF , but the solution may also be BEEF Down 1 __ cross which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Gripe crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BEEF | 46 % | 4 |
| MOAN | 13 % | 4 |
| CARP | 7 % | 4 |
| BELLYACHE | 7 % | 9 |
| FUSS | 7 % | 4 |
| KVETCH | 5 % | 6 |
| PEEVE | 4 % | 5 |
| SQUAWK | 4 % | 6 |
| BEEF Down 1 __ cross | 2 % | 20 |
| WHINE | 2 % | 5 |
| PROTEST | 2 % | 7 |
| CRAB | 2 % | 4 |
Why may BEEFDOWN1-__-CROSS be the right solution?
The answer "BEEF" for the clue "Gripe" fits because "beef" is a slang term for a complaint or grievance.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gripe
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- holler
- squawk
- kick
- bellyache
- bitch
- beef
- grouse
- complaint
- complain
- whine
- moan
- peeve
Crossword Answer definitions
BEEF noun- The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.
- (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- To complain.
- To add weight or strength to; to beef up.
- To fart; break wind.
- To feud or hold a grudge against.
- To cry
- To fail or mess up.
- Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
- Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
- Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
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 BEEF
- Stroganoff stuff
- "Where's the ___?"
- Complaint
- Grievance
- Gripe
- Burrito meat
- Kobe ___
- Bone to pick
- Point of complaint
- Alberta export
More clues leading to the result MOAN
- Keen
- Lament
- Painful utterance
- Sorrowful cry
- Haunted house noise
- Haunted-house sound
- Haunted house sound
- Busy sound?
- Complaining sound
- Gripe
More clues leading to the result CARP
- Find fault in a disagreeable way
- Freshwater catch
- Pond fish
- Bottom feeder
- Food fish
- Freshwater fish
- Find fault
- Complain
- Complain, like a fish?
- Beef
More clues leading to the result BELLYACHE
- Gripe
- Whine
- Complain in a whiny manner
- Complain
- Kvetch
- Whine and complain
- Complain whiningly: Slang.
- Grumble: Slang
- Crab
- Grouse
More clues leading to the result FUSS
- Act the mother hen
- Bustle
- Nag
- Be finicky
- Sort of budget?
- Needless activity
- Complain about trifles
- Ado
- Play the mother hen
- Bellyache
More clues leading to the result KVETCH
- Bellyache
- Chronically whine
- Gripe chronically
- Chronic complainer
- Complain
- *Complain chronically
- Beef or carp
- Complain, Yiddish-style
- Gripe and grouse
- Whine
More clues leading to the result PEEVE
More clues leading to the result SQUAWK
- Complain
- Bellyache
- Gripe
- Put up a fuss
- Lame duck sound?
- Customer's complaint.
- Bird sound.
- Bird's cry.
- Complaint of a sort.
- Complain, informally
More clues leading to the result BEEF Down 1 __ cross
More clues leading to the result WHINE
- Bellyache
- Sound resembling a cry
- Carp
- Be a complainer
- Moan and groan
- Pule
- Keep going "Why me?"
- Kvetch
- Complain plaintively
- Peevish complaint
More clues leading to the result PROTEST
- Demonstration
- Like Hermann Rorschach?
- Kind of march or movement
- Object
- Object strongly
- Take exception to
- Activist's activity
- Bit of activism
- Fast or march
- Kick