The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RETARD , but the solution may also be DETER which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Impede crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RETARD | 19 % | 6 |
| DETER | 14 % | 5 |
| HINDER | 14 % | 6 |
| HAMPER | 9 % | 6 |
| SLOW | 7 % | 4 |
| ESTOP | 5 % | 5 |
| HOBBLE | 5 % | 6 |
| STYMIE | 5 % | 6 |
| DAM | 5 % | 3 |
| TIEUP | 2 % | 5 |
| STOP | 2 % | 4 |
| CHECK | 2 % | 5 |
| THWART | 2 % | 6 |
| SHORTCIRCUIT | 2 % | 12 |
| BLOCK | 2 % | 5 |
| CLOG | 2 % | 4 |
| BAR | 2 % | 3 |
Why may DETER be the right solution?
The answer "DETER" is the right solution for the clue "Impede" because it means to discourage or prevent someone from proceeding or taking action.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Impede
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hinder
- obstruct
- occlude
- close up
- block
- jam
- hindrance
- blocked
- subvert
- thwart
- suppress
- avert
Crossword Answer definitions
RETARD noun- Retardation; delay.
- A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
- A person with mental retardation.
- A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.
- To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress
- To put off; to postpone.
- To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
- To decelerate; to slow down.
- To stay back.
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 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 DETER
More clues leading to the result HINDER
- Get in the way of
- Thwart
- Slow down
- Obstruct
- Encumber
- Try to prevent, as an investigation
- Impede
- Block
- Be an obstacle to
- Stymie
More clues leading to the result HAMPER
- Frustrate
- Basket in the bathroom
- Big basket
- Impede, as progress
- Picnic basket
- Get in the way of
- Laundry convenience
- Dirty-laundry holder
- Picnic aid.
- Laundry holder
More clues leading to the result SLOW
- Street sign
- Highway warning
- Like molasses
- Snail-like
- __-pitch softball
- Not so fast
- Musically retarded
- Be cautious rounding a corner
- Not busy
- A bit thick
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 HOBBLE
- Limp badly
- Walk with difficulty
- Impede
- Walk haltingly
- Awkward step.
- Old kind of skirt
- Limp
- Limp along
- Shackle for the feet
- Walk unsteadily
More clues leading to the result STYMIE
More clues leading to the result DAM
- It holds water
- TVA project
- Hoover is one
- Hoover or Norris
- Hoover, for one
- It retains water
- Reservoir creator
- Water container?
- Water stopper
- Barrier
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 STOP
- "__ the music!"
- Depot
- Halt
- Octagon message
- Organ piece
- Railroad-crossing word
- Scrub a mission
- Cease movement
- Discontinue
- Glottal __
More clues leading to the result CHECK
- Chess-game announcement
- Many a defensive hockey maneuver
- Alternative to cash and charge
- Credit card alternative
- "___, please"
- Chess announcement
- Word with book or list
- Mark often put next to completed to-do items
- Tab
- Word that can precede the first words of 17- and 52-Across and 11- and 27-Down
More clues leading to the result THWART
- Foil
- Block
- Frustrate
- Foil the plans of
- Oppose successfully
- Stymie
- Wreck the plans of
- Short-circuit
- Keep from happening
- Stymie, as plans
More clues leading to the result SHORTCIRCUIT
- Impede
- Fuse blower
- Electrical problem
- Cause of power failure.
- Cafe pianist on tour?
- Martin's 1986 accident?
- Good for a mail carrier, bad for an electrician
- Current problem?
- Fail electrically
More clues leading to the result BLOCK
- Impede
- Obstruct
- Plug
- Word with chopping or stumbling
- ___ party (neighborhood get-together)
- Writer's problem
- "Old" chip producer?
- Building toy
- Inhibit
- Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle
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