The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DIRECT which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2010.
Not beating around the bush crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DIRECT | 100 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Not beating around the bush
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hint
- unbeaten
- bushwhack
- earnest
- hedge
- absent
- out
- beat
- rove
- shoot
- hide
- fly
Crossword Answer definitions
DIRECT verb- To manage, control, steer.
- To aim (something) at (something else).
- To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
- To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
- To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
- Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
- Straightforward; sincere.
- Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- In the line of descent; not collateral.
- In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
- Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.
- (travel) having a single flight number.
- Directly.
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