The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STRANDED , but the solution may also be MAROONED which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Left high and dry crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STRANDED | 54 % | 8 |
| MAROONED | 31 % | 8 |
| FORSAKEN | 8 % | 8 |
| RANOUTON | 8 % | 8 |
Why may MAROONED be the right solution?
The phrase "left high and dry" means to be abandoned or stranded in a difficult situation. "Marooned" specifically refers to being stranded on a deserted island or isolated place, making it a fitting answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Left high and dry
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- abandoned
- abandoned and forgotten
- abandoned and left to fend for oneself
- naughty
- vicious
- wickedness
- perverse
- evil
- nefarious
- villainous
- depravity
- sinful
Crossword Answer definitions
STRANDED verb- To run aground; to beach.
- To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- To break a strand of (a rope).
- To form by uniting strands.
- (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
- (of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
- (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
- (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
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 STRANDED
- Left high and dry
- Like Tom Hanks's character in "Cast Away"
- Left helpless
- Left on base
- High and dry.
- Aground.
- Beached.
- Marooned.
- Beached
- Base runner's lot, sometimes
More clues leading to the result MAROONED
- Like "Gilligan's Island" characters
- Left high and dry
- Cast away
- Left to one's fate.
- What Robinson Crusoe was.
- Stranded.
- Left isolated.
- On a desert island.
- Stranded
- Like Robinson Crusoe
More clues leading to the result FORSAKEN
- "... why hast thou ___ me?"
- Left in the lurch
- Abandoned
- Deserted
- Deserted.
- Desolate.
- Lovelorn.
- Left high and dry
- Derelict
- Like a foundling