The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SPARES , but the solution may also be UNLATCHES which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Lets off the hook crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SPARES | 32 % | 6 |
| EXEMPTS | 16 % | 7 |
| UNPEGS | 16 % | 6 |
| PARDONS | 16 % | 7 |
| ACQUITS | 11 % | 7 |
| UNLATCHES | 5 % | 9 |
| UNCLIPS | 5 % | 7 |
Why may UNLATCHES be the right solution?
UNLATCHES is the right solution because "lets off the hook" can mean to open or release a hook or latch, allowing something to be free or loose.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lets off the hook
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- exonerate
- acquit
- clear
- dispensable
- purgation
- dispensation
- discharge
- exonerated
- absolve
- acquittal
- grace period
- remit
Crossword Answer definitions
SPARES noun- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- A superfluous or second-best person, specially (in a dynastic context) in the phrase "An heir and a spare".
- The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- To show mercy.
- To keep.
- To give up To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
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 SPARES
- Alley pickups
- Exempts
- Trunk tires
- Lets off the hook
- Some bowling scores
- ///, to a kegler
- Bowling marks
- Alley slashes
- Extras
- Bowlers pick them up
More clues leading to the result EXEMPTS
- Frees from liability
- Frees from obligation
- Lets off the hook
- Releases
- Treats specially, in a way
- Gives special treatment to
- Frees from an obligation
- Gives immunity to
- Grandfathers
- Makes immune
More clues leading to the result UNPEGS
- Removes a fastener from
- Clears, as a cribbage board
- Removes fasteners from
- Allows to fluctuate, as an exchange rate
- Removes fasteners
- Lets off the hook
- Lets off the hook?
- Allows to rise and fall, as prices
- Removes, as from a fixed rate
- Removes, as from a currency control
More clues leading to the result PARDONS
- Excuses
- Government grants?
- Grants amnesty to
- Lets off the hook
- Lets off
- Forgives
- Amnesties.
- Governors' prerogatives.
- Governor's prerogative.
- Remits
More clues leading to the result ACQUITS
- Clears
- Exculpates
- Lets off
- Finds innocent
- Finds not guilty
- Conducts (oneself).
- Exculpates.
- Lets off the hook
- Emulates the O. J. Simpson jury
- Exonerates