The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DETER , but the solution may also be OPPOSE which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in LA Times).
Hinder crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DETER | 37 % | 5 |
| IMPEDE | 23 % | 6 |
| EMBAR | 14 % | 5 |
| RETARD | 6 % | 6 |
| STYMIE | 5 % | 6 |
| PREVENT | 2 % | 7 |
| TIEUP | 2 % | 5 |
| CLOG | 1 % | 4 |
| BAR | 1 % | 3 |
| FORESTALL | 1 % | 9 |
| CRAMP | 1 % | 5 |
| SETBACK | 1 % | 7 |
| DEBAR | 1 % | 5 |
| ESTOP | 1 % | 5 |
| AFT | 1 % | 3 |
| OPPOSE | 1 % | 6 |
| CRIMP | 1 % | 5 |
| INCOMMODE | 1 % | 9 |
| STAY | 1 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hinder
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- impede
- hamper
- obstruct
- stymie
- embarrass
- disadvantage
- block
- handicap
- blockade
- posterior
- back
- hind
Crossword Answer definitions
DETER verb- To prevent something from happening.
- To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
- To distract someone from something.
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 DETER
More clues leading to the result IMPEDE
- Slow down
- Get in the way
- Slow the progress of
- Delay
- Hinder
- Obstruct
- Block
- Get in the way of
- Hold back
- Interfere with
More clues leading to the result EMBAR
- Fasten in
- Throw the bull
- Put in prison
- Imprison, in a way
- Cage in
- Incarcerate
- Stop legally
- Put in a pen, maybe
- Hinder
- Imprison
More clues leading to the result RETARD
- Slow down
- Make slower
- Slow
- Put the brakes on
- Slow up
- Delay progress
- Throttle down
- Impede
- Impede, as progress
- Hinder
More clues leading to the result STYMIE
More clues leading to the result PREVENT
More clues leading to the result TIEUP
- Snarl
- Result of a traffic jam
- Entanglement
- Use all the resources, say e.g.
- Gridlock
- Traffic snarl
- Traffic problem
- Highway headache
- Traffic jam
- Jam
More clues leading to the result CLOG
- Job for Drano
- Sabot
- Dance in wooden shoes
- Cause backups, say
- Jam up
- Thick-soled shoe
- Wooden shoe
- Rush hour phenomenon
- Clumsy shoe
- Get stopped up
More clues leading to the result BAR
- Kind of code
- Milky Way unit
- Prevent
- Refuse admission to
- Serving counter
- Soap unit
- Word in many ranch names
- Word with roll or salad
- Close off
- Exclude
More clues leading to the result FORESTALL
More clues leading to the result CRAMP
- Charley horse
- Writer's problem
- Contraction
- Restrain
- Restrict
- Swimming problem
- Muscle woe
- Constrict
- Muscle ailment
- Marathoner's woe
More clues leading to the result SETBACK
- Reverse
- Football player studying theater design?
- It may be temporary
- Relapse
- Reversal
- Reversal of fortune
- Architectual detail
- Hitch
- This bankruptcy was to Sir Walter Scott.
- Skyscraper must.
More clues leading to the result DEBAR
More clues leading to the result ESTOP
- Bar, at the bar
- Bar, legally
- Prevent legally
- Prevent, in legalspeak
- Impede legally
- Legally bar
- Block legally
- Bar by writ
- Bar in court
- Finish, at the bar
More clues leading to the result AFT
- Sternward
- Rudder location
- Early P.M.
- Eve. preceder
- Swabbie's rear
- Towards the stern
- Tail gunner's position in a plane
- Ship direction
- Not fore
- Back on a plane
More clues leading to the result OPPOSE
- Measure against
- Bump heads with
- Act against
- Go against
- Stand against
- Go against the government in Parliament
- Be against
- Face down
- Fly in the face of
- Side against
More clues leading to the result CRIMP
- Use a curling iron
- Fold
- Make corrugated
- Pinch together
- Put a ___ in (interfere with)
- Hamper
- Make wavy
- Pinch and press, as pie crust edges
- Pinch, as piecrust
- Hindrance