The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CLOG , but the solution may also be DAMUP which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Obstruct crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CLOG | 18 % | 4 |
| IMPEDE | 18 % | 6 |
| DAMUP | 17 % | 5 |
| DAM | 6 % | 3 |
| STOP | 6 % | 4 |
| BAR | 4 % | 3 |
| RETARD | 4 % | 6 |
| ESTOP | 4 % | 5 |
| BLOCK | 3 % | 5 |
| HINDER | 3 % | 6 |
| STYMIE | 2 % | 6 |
| OPPOSE | 2 % | 6 |
| JAMUP | 2 % | 5 |
| TIEUP | 1 % | 5 |
| BLOCKUP | 1 % | 7 |
| SNAG | 1 % | 4 |
| CHOKE | 1 % | 5 |
| JAM | 1 % | 3 |
| STOPUP | 1 % | 6 |
| CLOGUP | 1 % | 6 |
| BARRICADE | 1 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Obstruct
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- impede
- hinder
- occlude
- embarrass
- close up
- blockade
- block
- stymy
- stymie
- jam
- obstruction
- hindrance
Crossword Answer definitions
CLOG noun- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To perform a clog dance.
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 CLOG
- Job for Drano
- Sabot
- Dance in wooden shoes
- Cause backups, say
- Jam up
- Thick-soled shoe
- Wooden shoe
- Rush hour phenomenon
- Clumsy shoe
- Get stopped up
More clues leading to the result IMPEDE
- Slow down
- Get in the way
- Slow the progress of
- Delay
- Hinder
- Obstruct
- Block
- Get in the way of
- Hold back
- Interfere with
More clues leading to the result DAMUP
- Create an obstruction
- Stanch, as a river
- Obstruct
- Work like a beaver
- Block, as a stream
- Clog
- Cause a blockage in
- Block
- Stop from flowing
- Keep from overflowing
More clues leading to the result DAM
- It holds water
- TVA project
- Hoover is one
- Hoover or Norris
- Hoover, for one
- It retains water
- Reservoir creator
- Water container?
- Water stopper
- Barrier
More clues leading to the result STOP
- "__ the music!"
- Depot
- Halt
- Octagon message
- Organ piece
- Railroad-crossing word
- Scrub a mission
- Cease movement
- Discontinue
- Glottal __
More clues leading to the result BAR
- Kind of code
- Milky Way unit
- Prevent
- Refuse admission to
- Serving counter
- Soap unit
- Word in many ranch names
- Word with roll or salad
- Close off
- Exclude
More clues leading to the result RETARD
- Slow down
- Make slower
- Slow
- Put the brakes on
- Slow up
- Delay progress
- Throttle down
- Impede
- Impede, as progress
- Hinder
More clues leading to the result ESTOP
- Bar, at the bar
- Bar, legally
- Prevent legally
- Prevent, in legalspeak
- Impede legally
- Legally bar
- Block legally
- Bar by writ
- Bar in court
- Finish, at the bar
More clues leading to the result BLOCK
- Impede
- Obstruct
- Plug
- Word with chopping or stumbling
- ___ party (neighborhood get-together)
- Writer's problem
- "Old" chip producer?
- Building toy
- Inhibit
- Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle
More clues leading to the result HINDER
- Get in the way of
- Thwart
- Slow down
- Obstruct
- Encumber
- Try to prevent, as an investigation
- Impede
- Block
- Be an obstacle to
- Stymie
More clues leading to the result STYMIE
More clues leading to the result OPPOSE
- Measure against
- Bump heads with
- Act against
- Go against
- Stand against
- Go against the government in Parliament
- Be against
- Face down
- Fly in the face of
- Side against
More clues leading to the result JAMUP
- Clog
- Printer malfunction
- Obstruction
- Bind
- Cause an obstruction in
- "___ and Jelly Tight" (1969 Tommy Roe hit)
- Snarl
- Copier malfunction
- Become clogged
- Obstruct, as a copier
More clues leading to the result TIEUP
- Snarl
- Result of a traffic jam
- Entanglement
- Use all the resources, say e.g.
- Gridlock
- Traffic snarl
- Traffic problem
- Highway headache
- Traffic jam
- Jam
More clues leading to the result BLOCKUP
More clues leading to the result SNAG
- Glitch
- Hidden obstacle
- Unforeseen obstacle
- Unforseen problem
- Cause of a run
- Hangup in the negotiations
- Hoisery mishap
- Run producer
- Stocking spoiler
- Unforseen obstacle
More clues leading to the result CHOKE
- Auto mechanism
- Lose one's nerve
- Collapse under pressure
- Blow a best-of-seven series after being up three games, e.g.
- Air-supply valve
- Throttle
- Reduce the air intake
- Carburetor regulating device
- Lose due to nervousness
- Antiquated auto control
More clues leading to the result JAM
- Compress
- Bread spread
- Crush
- Gridlock
- Predicament
- Tight spot
- Toast topper
- Strawberry or blueberry spread
- Traffic trouble
- What the Grateful Dead liked to do?
More clues leading to the result STOPUP
- Clog
- Visit the penthouse
- Prevent drainage in
- Clog, as a drain
- Plug
- Visit at the penthouse
- Stick a cork in
- Obstruct.
- Clog.
- Plug.