The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HAS , but the solution may also be RETAINS which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Keeps crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HAS | 57 % | 3 |
| SAVES | 17 % | 5 |
| RETAINS | 15 % | 7 |
| LASTS | 4 % | 5 |
| OWNS | 4 % | 4 |
| STETS | 2 % | 5 |
| STICKSWITH | 2 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Keeps
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- keep on
- continue
- sustain
- retain
- support
- maintain
- sustenance
- go on
- hold back
- proceed
- keep back
- save
Crossword Answer definitions
HAS verb- To possess, own.
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
- To give birth to.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To trick, to deceive.
- (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
- (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
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 HAS
- "Euclid alone ___ looked on beauty bare..."
- A few laughs
- Is afflicted with
- Suffers from
- Is in possession
- Is suffering from
- Keeps
- Owns
- ___-been
- Possesses
More clues leading to the result SAVES
- Accumulates interest
- Frees from danger
- Goalies' specialties
- Pinches pennies
- Stores for a rainy day
- Squirrels away
- Goalie's pride
- Reliever's stats
- Goalie's stats
- Stat for Papelbon
More clues leading to the result RETAINS
- Keeps in mind
- Hires, as a lawyer
- Keeps
- Hires, in a way
- Continues to hold
- Engages, as an attorney
- Holds on to
- Hires to handle the case
- Doesn't give up
- Keeps possession of
More clues leading to the result LASTS
- Holds out
- Continues
- Continues on
- Doesn't break down
- Stays with it
- Shoemaker's mounts
- Doesn't go bad
- Endures
- Holds up
- Shoe trees
More clues leading to the result OWNS
- Holds
- Admits to
- Holds title
- Possesses
- Has control of
- Admits, with "up"
- Controls
- Doesn't rent
- Fesses (up to)
- Has a right to
More clues leading to the result STETS
- Keeps in
- Proofreader's imperatives
- Leaves in, editorially
- Manuscript marks based on the Latin for "stand"
- Leave as is
- Calls off the dele
- Leaves in
- Puts dots on a manuscript
- Undoes copy editing
- Lets stand, in proofreading