The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NESTS , but the solution may also be STEPS which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Landing spots? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NESTS | 33 % | 5 |
| STEPS | 33 % | 5 |
| AIRSTRIPS | 33 % | 9 |
Why may STEPS be the right solution?
The word "landing" is used in the sense of "a level area at the top of a flight of stairs or between two flights of stairs". "Steps" are the places where you land when you climb a flight of stairs, so "landing spots" can be referred to as "STEPS".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Landing spots?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stations
- three
- apollo
- airfield
- airport
- airstrip
- apex
- ararat
- arrival
- aut
- bottom
- bottoms
Crossword Answer definitions
NESTS noun- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A fortified position for a weapon.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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 NESTS
- Homes for hatchlings
- Machine-gunners' spots
- Starling structures
- Tree houses?
- Aeries
- Where 25A sit
- Hideaways
- Orioles start in them
- Badger's homes
- Bird's homes
More clues leading to the result STEPS
- Actions
- Dance movements
- Levels
- Arthur Murray moves
- Series of actions
- They may be taken
- With 51-Down, starts using, as a bathroom scale
- Word after 12 or 39
- Plan parts
- Stair parts