The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SAPS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2022.
Leaches crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPS | 100 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Leaches
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- percolate
- strip
- dissolves
- groundwater
- rainwater
- nutrients
- rainfall
- calcium
- minerals
- salts
- nitrate
- soil
Crossword Answer definitions
SAPS noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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