The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SLICE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Not a straight shot crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLICE | 100 % | 5 |
Why may SLICE be the right solution?
The answer "SLICE" is a golfing term referring to a shot that curves to the right (for a right-handed golfer) instead of going straight. This fits the clue "Not a straight shot" as it describes a shot that veers off course.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Not a straight shot
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- crooked
- drive
- lie
- awry
- direct
- right
- arc
- net
- diagonal
- oblique
- user
Crossword Answer definitions
SLICE noun- That which is thin and broad.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- An amount of anything.
- A piece of pizza.
- A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- A contiguous portion of an array.
- To cut into slices.
- To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- Having the properties of a slice knot.
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