The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STRANDED , but the solution may also be UPATREE which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in New York Times).
High and dry crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STRANDED | 50 % | 8 |
| UPATREE | 13 % | 7 |
| ASHORE | 13 % | 6 |
| BEACHED | 13 % | 7 |
| MAROONED | 13 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: High and dry
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- aground
- beached
- laid up
- shipwrecked
- castaway
- stranded
- waterlogged
- dead in the water
- seagoing
- unseaworthy
- landfast
- sailless
Crossword Answer definitions
STRANDED verb- To run aground; to beach.
- To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- To break a strand of (a rope).
- To form by uniting strands.
- (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
- (of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
- (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
- (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
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 STRANDED
- Left high and dry
- Like Tom Hanks's character in "Cast Away"
- Left helpless
- Left on base
- High and dry.
- Aground.
- Beached.
- Marooned.
- Beached
- Base runner's lot, sometimes
More clues leading to the result UPATREE
- Completely helpless
- Like kitty waiting out her canine pursuer, perhaps
- Trapped
- Like a stuck cat
- Trapped in branches
- Trapped with no way to descend
- Stumped, informally
- Stuck
- In a difficult situation
- In hot water
More clues leading to the result ASHORE
- Where castaways are often cast
- Where driftwood drifts
- On land
- Off the ship
- "Michael, Row the Boat ___"
- Landed
- Like a landlubber
- No longer sailing
- On the beach
- Off the boat