The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABATE , but the solution may also be EASE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Let up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABATE | 25 % | 5 |
| EASED | 23 % | 5 |
| EASE | 23 % | 4 |
| ABATED | 8 % | 6 |
| RELENT | 7 % | 6 |
| LESSEN | 2 % | 6 |
| EASEOFF | 2 % | 7 |
| RELENTED | 1 % | 8 |
| CEASE | 1 % | 5 |
| WANED | 1 % | 5 |
| EBBED | 1 % | 5 |
| REMIT | 1 % | 5 |
| SLACKEN | 1 % | 7 |
| RELAX | 1 % | 5 |
| SLACKENED | 1 % | 9 |
| LULL | 0 % | 4 |
| DESIST | 0 % | 6 |
| LESSENED | 0 % | 8 |
| PAUSE | 0 % | 5 |
| EASEDOFF | 0 % | 8 |
| BATE | 0 % | 4 |
| CEASED | 0 % | 6 |
| GOEASY | 0 % | 6 |
Why may ABATE be the right solution?
"Let up" means to become less intense or decrease in strength. "Abate" means to become less intense or to decrease in amount or degree. Therefore, "Abate" is the right solution for the clue "Let up".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Let up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- ease off
- ease up
- abate
- slack off
- die away
- slack
- let down
- let out
- let off
- relent
- slacken off
- release
Crossword Answer definitions
ABATE noun- Abatement.
- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- To become null and void.
- To nullify; make void.
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
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 ABATE
More clues leading to the result EASED
- Abated
- Alleviated
- Buffered
- Let up
- Reduced, as tensions
- Facilitated
- Lessened
- Loosened
- Made bearable
- Made comfortable
More clues leading to the result EASE
More clues leading to the result ABATED
- Subsided
- Ebbed
- Slackened
- Waned
- Let up
- Tapered off
- Eased off
- Ran the course
- Became less intense
- Reduced in intensity
More clues leading to the result RELENT
More clues leading to the result LESSEN
- Diminish
- Abate
- Ebb
- Cut down on auditor's classroom assignment (6)
- Ease up, as pressure
- Pull back
- Subside
- Cut back
- Mitigate
- Let up
More clues leading to the result EASEOFF
More clues leading to the result RELENTED
- Gave in
- Yielded
- Became less severe
- Grew less severe
- Let up
- Abated.
- Felt compassion.
- Gave in.
- Softened
- Became forgiving
More clues leading to the result CEASE
More clues leading to the result WANED
- Fell off
- Went down
- Gradually declined
- Declined in power
- Tapered off
- Dwindled
- Approached third quarter, say
- Lost strength
- Subsided
- Backed off
More clues leading to the result EBBED
- Dropped off
- Dwindled
- Declined
- Wanned
- Underwent recession
- Fell off
- Receded
- Went out
- Let up
- Backed away from the shore
More clues leading to the result REMIT
More clues leading to the result SLACKEN
More clues leading to the result RELAX
- Take it easy
- Chill out
- Take five
- Unwind
- "Take a chill pill!"
- Stop working
- "Calm down!"
- Kick back
- Something to do on sabbatical
- Hang loose
More clues leading to the result SLACKENED
More clues leading to the result LULL
- Slow interval
- Break in the action
- Put to sleep
- Soothe
- Sing "Rock-a-Bye Baby"
- Ebb
- Quiet spell
- Quiet time
- Temporary letup
- Calm before the storm
More clues leading to the result DESIST
- "Knock it off!"
- Cut it out
- Cease's partner
- Stop
- Cease and___: stop
- Call it quits
- Partner of cease
- Give it up
- Surcease
- Knock it off
More clues leading to the result LESSENED
More clues leading to the result PAUSE
- VCR button
- What "||" means on a YouTube video
- || on a YouTube video
- Break
- Caesura
- Button on a VCR
- Take ten
- Breather
- Interruption
- TiVo button
More clues leading to the result EASEDOFF
More clues leading to the result BATE
- Ease
- Restrain
- Subside
- Diminish
- Decrease
- Lessen
- Moderate
- Make less intense
- Hold back, as breath
- Lessen in intensity