The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNAIL , but the solution may also be LOITERER which is one of the most recent solution (2009 in New York Times).
Laggard crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNAIL | 29 % | 5 |
| SLOUCH | 21 % | 6 |
| SLACKER | 14 % | 7 |
| IDLER | 14 % | 5 |
| SLOWPOKE | 7 % | 8 |
| TORTOISE | 7 % | 8 |
| LOITERER | 7 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Laggard
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slow
- dawdling
- dilatory
- dawdler
- unpunctual
- pokey
- poky
- drone
- lagging
- lagger
- sluggish
- laggers
Crossword Answer definitions
SNAIL noun- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- To move or travel very slowly.
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 SNAIL
- Slow food from the garden, perhaps?
- Creature in a shell
- No racer
- Shelled creature
- Slowpoke
- Exemplar of slowness
- Slow mover
- Garden gastropod
- ___ mail (E-mail alternative)
- ___ mail (Canada Post, perhaps)
More clues leading to the result SLOUCH
- Stand down?
- Laggard
- Show poor posture
- Drooping posture
- Ne'er-do-well
- Amateur
- Slump in one's seat
- Posture issue
- Don't stand straight
- Lazybones
More clues leading to the result SLACKER
- Unambitious one
- Goldbrick
- Goldbricker
- Goof-off
- Buck passer
- Ne'er-do-well
- Lazy person
- Laggard
- Evader of military service.
- Goldbricker.
More clues leading to the result IDLER
More clues leading to the result SLOWPOKE
- Tortoise-like person
- Laggard
- Dawdler
- Cause of honking, perhaps
- Hardly a speed demon
- Highway hazard
- Sluggish person
- Snail
- Annoyingly deliberate person.
- Lazybones.
More clues leading to the result TORTOISE
- Aesop race-winner
- Hare racer
- Fabled race winner
- Race winner of fable
- Winner by a hare?
- Hare's opponent
- Winner who finished next to last, in fable
- Slowpoke
- Hare vanquisher
- Reason for a bad hare day?