The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PRONTO , but the solution may also be ASAP which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
"On the double!" crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PRONTO | 24 % | 6 |
| ASAP | 19 % | 4 |
| APACE | 11 % | 5 |
| NOW | 7 % | 3 |
| FAST | 7 % | 4 |
| STAT | 6 % | 4 |
| ATONCE | 6 % | 6 |
| PRESTO | 6 % | 6 |
| PDQ | 5 % | 3 |
| RAPIDLY | 2 % | 7 |
| CHOPECHOED | 1 % | 10 |
| SWIFTLY | 1 % | 7 |
| INAFLASH | 1 % | 8 |
| ATARUN | 1 % | 6 |
| CHOPCHOP | 1 % | 8 |
| LICKETYSPLIT | 1 % | 12 |
| MOVEIT | 1 % | 6 |
| CHOP | 1 % | 4 |
Why may ASAP be the right solution?
"ASAP" stands for "as soon as possible," meaning to do something quickly or without delay, which is synonymous with the phrase "on the double."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: "On the double!"
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- doubling
- doubled
- doubles
- double quick
- double bar
- double meaning
- double cross
- double sided
- double dipping
- double dutch
- double bubble
- double tap
Crossword Answer definitions
PRONTO adverb- Quickly, very soon, promptly.
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 PRONTO
- ASAP!
- PDQ
- Without delay
- Without waiting
- "And make it snappy!"
- "Drop everything!"
- Now
- Now if not sooner
- Without delay!
- Right away
More clues leading to the result ASAP
- Appropriate abbr. for this puzzle
- Letters of urgency
- PDQ
- PDQ kin
- PDQ, on a memo
- "Pronto!"
- Hurry it up!
- Now!
- Order for now
- P.D.Q. relative
More clues leading to the result APACE
- Swiftly
- On the double
- Ice cream treat
- Posthaste
- Quickly
- Swiftly, to Shakespeare
- At a good clip
- Quickly, to Chaucer
- Rapidly, old style
- Speedily
More clues leading to the result NOW
- ASAP!
- Immediately!
- At this time
- Pronto
- Right this minute
- With it
- At once
- "Serenity ___!" (cry for inner calm on "Seinfeld")
- Today
- "Buy It ___" (eBay button)
More clues leading to the result FAST
- On the double
- Quick
- "He pulled a ___ one!"
- Secure
- __ Eddie Felson
- Securely
- Kind of track
- Put nothing away
- Refrain from eating
- Like Carl Lewis
More clues leading to the result STAT
- RBI, e.g.
- "Now!"
- At once!
- Sports fig.
- Sports figure?
- ASAP in the ER
- E.R.A., e.g.
- Sports figure
- ASAP
- RBI, for one
More clues leading to the result ATONCE
- Pronto
- Right away!
- Immediately
- Directly
- "Quit stalling, do it!"
- "Quit standing there"
- "What are you waiting for?"
- Stat
- This moment
- Now
More clues leading to the result PRESTO
- On the double
- Rapid movement
- Wizard's word
- Magician's word
- "Voila!"
- 1989 Rush album with a rabbit in a top hat on its cover
- "Alakazam!"
- Trick ending?
- Immediately
- Quick as a wink
More clues leading to the result PDQ
- ASAP
- On the double
- Lickety-split
- "What are you waiting for?"
- Brisk, briefly
- Promptly
- Without delay
- ASAP relative
- Bach who wrote Missa Hilarious
- Pronto
More clues leading to the result RAPIDLY
- Expertly
- On the double
- Apace
- With great haste
- Without delay
- With dispatch.
- With celerity.
- Quickly.
- With celerity
- How the Niagara flows
More clues leading to the result CHOPECHOED
More clues leading to the result SWIFTLY
More clues leading to the result INAFLASH
- Without delay
- Pronto
- On the double
- Very quickly
- Lickety-split
- Chop-chop
- Right away
- Instantly
- Quickly
- Very shortly
More clues leading to the result ATARUN
More clues leading to the result CHOPCHOP
- Quickly
- "On the double!"
- "Make it snappy!"
- Lickety-split.
- Lickety-brindle.
- Lickety-cut.
- Quickly, in pidgin English.
- Quickly, in pidgin English
- Lickety-split
- Quickly, or what rows 3, 6 and 10 do?
More clues leading to the result LICKETYSPLIT
- Like a house afire
- On the double
- Very quickly
- At full speed
- Fast
- Really quickly
- Without delay
- Speed demon's way to go
- Pronto
- ASAP
More clues leading to the result MOVEIT
- "Get going!"
- "On the double!"
- "Get going now!"
- "Shake a leg!"
- "Go, go, go!"
- "Go!"
- Words to a slowpoke
- "C'mon, slowpoke!"
- "Don't just sit there!"