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 |
| ELEVATE | 7 % | 7 |
| RIDE | 7 % | 4 |
| STEAL | 7 % | 5 |
| ELEVATOR | 6 % | 8 |
| SWIPE | 4 % | 5 |
| BUOY | 4 % | 4 |
| COP | 3 % | 3 |
| ROPETOW | 2 % | 7 |
| ELATE | 2 % | 5 |
| HEFT | 2 % | 4 |
| HEAVE | 2 % | 5 |
| BOOST | 1 % | 5 |
| HIKEUP | 1 % | 6 |
| HIKE | 1 % | 4 |
| RESCIND | 1 % | 7 |
| RAISEUP | 1 % | 7 |
| BURGLE | 1 % | 6 |
| REPEAL | 1 % | 6 |
| NEEDA | 1 % | 5 |
| CRANE | 1 % | 5 |
| BRITSELEVATOR | 1 % | 13 |
| THERECEIVER | 1 % | 11 |
| PILFER | 1 % | 6 |
| SKIERSTRANSPORT | 1 % | 15 |
| TAKEUP | 1 % | 6 |
| REVOKE | 1 % | 6 |
| HEELTAP | 1 % | 7 |
| THIEVE | 1 % | 6 |
| ERECT | 1 % | 5 |
| UPREAR | 1 % | 6 |
| HITCHHIKERSRIDE | 1 % | 15 |
| TBAR | 1 % | 4 |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 HIKEUP
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 RESCIND
More clues leading to the result RAISEUP
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 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 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?
More clues leading to the result BRITSELEVATOR
More clues leading to the result THERECEIVER
More clues leading to the result PILFER
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 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 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