The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GAVEL , but the solution may also be MACE which is one of the most recent solution (1993 in New York Times).
Mallet crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GAVEL | 71 % | 5 |
| HAMMER | 14 % | 6 |
| MACE | 14 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mallet
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sledgehammer
- hammer
- harness
- plastic
- vinyl
- gavel
- stevens
- bachelier
- joris
- hammers
- chisel
- xylophone
Crossword Answer definitions
GAVEL noun- Rent.
- Usury; interest on money.
- An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
- To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
- A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
- (metonymically) The legal system as a whole.
- A mason's setting maul.
- To use a gavel.
- A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
- A gable.
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 GAVEL
- Desk mallet
- Courtroom attention-getter
- Courtroom thumper
- Prop for Judy Sheindlin
- Judge's hammer
- Hammer for a court justice
- Courtroom rapper
- Judge's attention getter
- Auctioneer's aid
- Hammer in the courtroom
More clues leading to the result HAMMER
- Head hitter
- Criticize severely
- Framer's tool
- Carpenter's tool
- Spillane's private eye
- Word that can follow the ends of the answers to asterisked clues
- It hits the nail on the head
- Work (out) with effort, as an agreement
- Hard-boiled sleuth Mike
- Track-and-field missile