The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word AGED , but the solution may also be OLDEN which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Hoary crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AGED | 35 % | 4 |
| OLD | 28 % | 3 |
| GRAY | 13 % | 4 |
| AGEOLD | 7 % | 6 |
| ANCIENT | 4 % | 7 |
| RIMED | 2 % | 5 |
| VENERABLE | 2 % | 9 |
| OLDEN | 2 % | 5 |
| ARCHAIC | 2 % | 7 |
| OLDASMETHUSELAH | 2 % | 15 |
| STALE | 2 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Hoary
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- canescent
- white-haired
- hoar
- grey-haired
- gray-headed
- gray-haired
- grey-headed
- gray
- grey
- rusty
- hirsute
- hairy
Crossword Answer definitions
AGED verb- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- To categorize by age.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
- Old people, collectively.
- Old.
- (chiefly non-US) Having the age of.
- Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
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 AGED
- Grew old
- Made mellow
- Elderly
- Like a fine Bordeaux
- Long in the tooth
- Prepared, as wine
- Stored the Sauterne
- Grown old
- Got on in years
- Got wiser, perhaps
More clues leading to the result OLD
- Like Methuselah
- Like the hills?
- Passe
- __ Nick (Satan)
- Hardly a spring chicken
- Immemorial
- Like MacDonald
- On in years
- Out of fashion
- Pre-Columbian
More clues leading to the result GRAY
- _____ matter (brains)
- Black and white mix
- Drabble character Jane
- Gloomy
- Ashen
- Davis of note
- Like overcast skies
- Sweats shade
- ___ notes (wine characteristic)
- CSA color
More clues leading to the result AGEOLD
- Of long standing
- Steeped in tradition
- Hoary
- Ancient
- Longstanding
- From long ago
- From times of yore
- Going back
- Antique
- From way back when
More clues leading to the result ANCIENT
- Like fifteen-year-old computers
- Very old
- With 21 Down, old salt
- From way back
- Age-old
- Antique
- With 37-Across, prehistoric orange liqueur?
- Elder
- Venerable one
- Long-ago
More clues leading to the result RIMED
- Covered with ice
- Hoary with frost
- With a frosty coat
- Frost-covered
- Frosted
- Covered with frost
- Ice-sheathed.
- Frosted.
- Covered with hoarfrost.
- Icebound.
More clues leading to the result VENERABLE
More clues leading to the result OLDEN
- "In __ days ..." ("Anything Goes" starter)
- Like days of yore
- Of yore
- Pertaining to yesteryear
- Not recent
- Former
- Bygone
- From times of yore
- Pertaining to the past
- Ancient
More clues leading to the result ARCHAIC
- Extremely old
- Really old-school
- Antiquated
- Beyond passé
- Utterly antiquated
- More than old
- Very old
- Old
- Like thou, say
- Hoary
More clues leading to the result OLDASMETHUSELAH
- Ancient
- 969
- Antediluvian
- Hoary
- Timeworn, as a joke
- Beyond elderly and 969 years old?
- 969 on one's birthday?