The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HOIST , but the solution may also be RIDE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Lift crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HOIST | 13 % | 5 |
| RAISE | 13 % | 5 |
| UPRAISE | 10 % | 7 |
| RIDE | 7 % | 4 |
| STEAL | 7 % | 5 |
| ELEVATE | 7 % | 7 |
| ELEVATOR | 6 % | 8 |
| SWIPE | 4 % | 5 |
| BUOY | 4 % | 4 |
| COP | 3 % | 3 |
| HEFT | 2 % | 4 |
| HEAVE | 2 % | 5 |
| ROPETOW | 2 % | 7 |
| ELATE | 2 % | 5 |
| RESCIND | 1 % | 7 |
| RAISEUP | 1 % | 7 |
| HIKEUP | 1 % | 6 |
| BOOST | 1 % | 5 |
| HIKE | 1 % | 4 |
| REVOKE | 1 % | 6 |
| SKIERSTRANSPORT | 1 % | 15 |
| TAKEUP | 1 % | 6 |
| HEELTAP | 1 % | 7 |
| THIEVE | 1 % | 6 |
| ERECT | 1 % | 5 |
| TBAR | 1 % | 4 |
| UPREAR | 1 % | 6 |
| HITCHHIKERSRIDE | 1 % | 15 |
| NEEDA | 1 % | 5 |
| BURGLE | 1 % | 6 |
| REPEAL | 1 % | 6 |
| CRANE | 1 % | 5 |
| BRITSELEVATOR | 1 % | 13 |
| PILFER | 1 % | 6 |
| THERECEIVER | 1 % | 11 |
Why may HOIST be the right solution?
The answer "HOIST" is the right solution for the clue "Lift" because "hoist" means to raise or lift something up, often using a mechanical device or pulley system.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lift
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- rise
- raising
- arise
- elevator
- elevate
- get up
- bring up
- move up
- elevation
- raise
- heave
- go up
Crossword Answer definitions
HOIST noun- A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
- The act of hoisting; a lift.
- The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
- The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
- The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
- To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
- To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
- To lift someone up to be flogged.
- To be lifted up.
- To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- To steal, to rob.
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 HOIST
- __ with one's own petard
- Elevate
- Yank up
- Jack Be Nimble is hot (5)
- Lift up high
- Lift
- Lift up
- Do some heavy lifting
- Raise up
- Give a lift to
More clues leading to the result RAISE
- Bring up
- Bump
- Pay boost
- Post-review reward
- What you do with a good hand
- Worker's dream
- __ eyebrows (cause surprise)
- Increase
- Poker ploy
- Union demand
More clues leading to the result UPRAISE
More clues leading to the result RIDE
- Sally in space
- "Thumb a ___"
- Catch a Greyhound
- The Cyclone, for one
- Thumb a __ (hitchhike)
- Be carried by
- Carnival attraction
- Disneyland attraction
- Emulate Miss Daisy
- Go by car
More clues leading to the result STEAL
- Real bargain
- Shoplift
- Unbelievable bargain
- Purloin
- Take a base?
- Go quietly
- Tiptoe
- Take the wrong way?
- Grab an album using BitTorrent, e.g.
- Pinch
More clues leading to the result ELEVATE
- Lift the spirits
- Raise
- Aggrandize
- Buoy up
- Get a raise?
- Idolize
- Use a jack on
- Move toward the top
- Upgrade
- Take higher
More clues leading to the result ELEVATOR
- It has its ups and downs
- London lift
- Always on the rise?
- Muzak locale
- Stairs alternative
- Ride inside a skyscraper
- It goes between floors
- Skyscraper necessity
- Lift
- Skyscraper transport
More clues leading to the result SWIPE
- Apply a five-finger discount to
- Lift
- Steal, like the fox in "Dora the Explorer"
- Pick pockets
- Filch
- Credit-card action
- Make off with
- Rip off
- Liberate, so to speak
- Take without permission
More clues leading to the result BUOY
- Water-skier's marker
- Harbor marker
- Marker next to a liner
- Regatta obstacle
- Uplift
- Floating guide
- Harbor bobber
- Hearten
- Marker used by fishermen
- Channel marker
More clues leading to the result COP
- Flatfoot
- __ a plea
- Friday, e.g.
- One wielding tear gas or driving a tank, perhaps, alas (and, after burrowing, a 37-Down/43-Across from Barry Manilow)
- Beat walker
- Bobby from Britain
- Filch
- One in a cruiser
- Pig
- Whistle blower?
More clues leading to the result HEFT
- Lift up
- Weight
- Significance
- Test the weight of
- Weightiness
- Hoist
- Pick up
- Hallmark of a tome
- Tome's attribute
- Carry with effort
More clues leading to the result HEAVE
- Hurl
- Lift with force
- Toss
- Fling
- Throw with force
- Fling with force
- "Everyone push on three; 1, 2, 3!"
- "Ready and ... PUSH!"
- Upchuck
- Swell at sea
More clues leading to the result ROPETOW
- Type of ski lift
- Transportation for skiers
- Way up the slope
- It helps get you to the top
- Way to the top
- Bunny-slope access
- Lift
- Ski lift
- Skier's pull
- Basic way up a slope
More clues leading to the result ELATE
- Bring to joy
- Gladden
- Inspirit
- Make rhapsodic
- Overjoy
- Put on cloud nine
- Raise spirits
- Thrill to death
- Delight
- Make happy
More clues leading to the result RESCIND
More clues leading to the result RAISEUP
More clues leading to the result HIKEUP
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 HIKE
- Escalate
- Follow a nature trail
- Escalation
- Quarterback's bark
- It's a snap in the NFL
- Tramp
- "Give me the ball!"
- Increase in cost
- Walk in the woods
- Boy Scouts outing
More clues leading to the result REVOKE
- Take back
- Dismantle
- Fail to follow suit
- Withdraw
- Annul
- Opposite of grant
- Annul, as a license
- Take away
- Bridge violation
- Take back, as a license
More clues leading to the result SKIERSTRANSPORT
More clues leading to the result TAKEUP
- Begin an interest in
- Seize on
- Learn, as a hobby
- Start, as a new hobby
- Start, as a hobby
- Start to discuss
- Make shorter.
- Occupy (time).
- Become interested in.
- Begin to learn.
More clues leading to the result HEELTAP
- Liquor leftover
- Last bit in the bottle
- Shoe lift
- Shoe layer
- Lift
- Lift in the back of a shoe
- Part of a shoe.
- Part of Fred Astaire's skill.
- Shoe lift.
- Clicker, of a sort
More clues leading to the result THIEVE
More clues leading to the result ERECT
- Standing up
- In a vertical, upright position
- Not on all fours
- Set up
- Straight up
- Upright
- Upright in posture
- Build
- Construct
- How Cro-Magnon man walked
More clues leading to the result TBAR
- It may get you high
- Lift at Stowe
- Lift device
- Lillehammer lift
- Ski lift
- Skier's tow
- Slopes transport
- Stowe lift
- Vail sight
- Gondola alternative
More clues leading to the result UPREAR
More clues leading to the result HITCHHIKERSRIDE
More clues leading to the result NEEDA
- "I __ Lover" (Benatar hit)
- Do you ___ ride home?
- U____ Biscuit-since 1898
- "I Don't ___ Man" (2007 Pussycat Dolls single)
- "I __ hug"
- "I ___ vacation!"
- "I ___ vacation!"
- "___ lift?"
- "I ___ hug!"
- "___ hand?"
More clues leading to the result BURGLE
- Commit theft
- Go in for robbery
- Rob a house
- Rob, in a way
- Lift
- Commit theft: Colloq.
- Second-story men do.
- Thieve: Colloq.
- Rob
- Enter to steal from
More clues leading to the result REPEAL
- Annul legally
- Undo, as an amendment
- Undo, in a way
- Invalidate, as a law
- Abrogate
- Take off the books
- Annul officially
- Declare null and void
- Overturn, as a decision
- Strike down, as legislation
More clues leading to the result CRANE
- Hoisting machine
- Large wading bird
- Wrecking-ball swinger
- Wading bird
- Frasier's last name
- Construction-site sight
- Wetlands whooper
- Classic origami piece
- Poet Hart __
- Egg-layer that whoops?