The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SLURS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1967.
Musical effects crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLURS | 43 % | 5 |
| TREMOLOS | 29 % | 8 |
| SYNCOPATIONS | 14 % | 12 |
| TONES | 14 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Musical effects
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- act
- beat
- fines
- melodrama
- accidental
- bar
- beats
- color
- dub
- harmonic
- hold
- impressionism
Crossword Answer definitions
SLURS noun- An insult or slight.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
- A trick or deception.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
- To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
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 SLURS
- Casts aspersions on
- Speaks indistinctly
- Maligns
- Aspersions
- Fails to enunciate
- Puts down
- Pronounces indistinctly
- Defames
- Utters indistinctly
- Discredits
More clues leading to the result TREMOLOS
- Organ effects
- Vibrating effects
- Organ devices
- Vibrating musical effects
- Operatic effects
- Fluttering reiterations of a tone: Music.
- Sound effects on a stringed instrument.
- Musical effects.
- Effects in music.
- Singers' forte