The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EDGE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Leg up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EDGE | 63 % | 4 |
| BOOST | 29 % | 5 |
| ASSIST | 4 % | 6 |
| AID | 2 % | 3 |
| HELP | 2 % | 4 |
Why may EDGE be the right solution?
The phrase "leg up" can be interpreted as getting an advantage or an edge over others. So, "EDGE" is a suitable answer for this clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Leg up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- heel hook
- step
- stance
- lockstep
- run-up
- wall jump
- climbing hold
- pace
- layback
- hoop
- hand traverse
- climbing
Crossword Answer definitions
EDGE noun- The boundary line of a surface.
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
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 EDGE
- "The ___ of Night"
- "The ____ Of Night"
- "The ____ of Night" (TV soap)
- Advantage
- Boundary line
- Brink
- Creep
- Favorable advantage
- Keenness
- Word in a Maugham title
More clues leading to the result BOOST
- Give a leg up
- Promote
- Battery charge
- Supercharge
- Upward push
- Shot in the 29-Down
- Raise
- Leg up
- Shove up from below
- Increase
More clues leading to the result ASSIST
- Back-up play
- Stat for Rajon Rondo
- Basketball stat that I got one of when I played briefly for the Utah Jazz in the early 2000s
- Basketball stat
- Helpful act
- Court statistic
- Court coup
- Help a shooter
- Leg up
- Hockey stat
More clues leading to the result AID
- Band follower?
- Financial follower
- Help
- Help out
- Pitch in
- Abet's partner
- First ____
- Partner of 58A
- Give an assist to
- Legal or visual follower