Answer to "Move sneakily" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CREEP , but the solution may also be SKULK which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in USA Today).

Move sneakily crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CREEP	31 %	5
SIDLE	31 %	5
TIPTOE	23 %	6
SKULK	8 %	5
SLINK	8 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Move sneakily

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• slink
• sneak
• tiptoe
• prowl
• creep
• stalk
• worm
• creep up
• insinuate
• insinuation
• stalking
• mill

Crossword Answer definitions

CREEP verb

1. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
2. Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3. To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
4. To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
5. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
6. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
7. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
8. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
9. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
10. To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

CREEP noun

1. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
2. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
3. A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
4. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
5. In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
6. An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
7. The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
8. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
9. A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
10. A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

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 CREEP

• Move like ivy
• Repulsive one
• Watergate acronym
• Facebook stalker, e.g.
• Rush-hour pace
• Grow along the ground
• Lowlife
• Scoundrel
• Dirty rotten scoundrel
• Cad

More clues leading to the result SIDLE

• Move crablike
• Move coyly
• Walk laterally
• Advance furtively
• Move like a crab
• Move edgewise
• Go laterally
• Move furtively
• Move obliquely
• Move laterally

More clues leading to the result TIPTOE

• Tiny Tim title starter
• Tread lightly
• Sneak
• Sneak by
• Try not to clomp
• Try to go unnoticed, in a way
• Pussyfoot
• Sneak up on, maybe
• Traverse the tulips?
• "___ Through the Tulips"

More clues leading to the result SKULK

• Lurk in the shadows
• Move furtively
• Hide in the dark
• Move stealthily
• Group of foxes
• Move evasively
• Sneak around
• Move in a stealthy manner
• Steal
• Move with stealth

More clues leading to the result SLINK

• Move shamefully
• Move in the shadows
• Go furtively
• Move among the shadows
• Move furtively
• Move towards one's prey, perhaps
• Move like Mae West
• Walk stealthily
• Lurk
• Move like a cat