The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SAPS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2019.
Patsies crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPS | 67 % | 4 |
| DUPES | 13 % | 5 |
| SETUPS | 4 % | 6 |
| SUCKERS | 4 % | 7 |
| PAWNS | 4 % | 5 |
| GOATS | 4 % | 5 |
| GULLS | 4 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Patsies
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- setups
- creampuff
- stooges
- chumps
- nobodies
- lackeys
- bumblers
- cannon fodder
- hypocrites
- bunglers
- pushovers
- shysters
Crossword Answer definitions
SAPS noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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 SAPS
More clues leading to the result DUPES
- Cat's-paws
- Deceives
- Fools, as I have never done to anyone in my life
- Marks
- Swindles
- Gullible guys
- Suckers in
- Patsies
- Plays for a fool
- Swindling victims
More clues leading to the result SETUPS
- Deliberate traps
- Prearranged traps
- Fixed outcomes
- Police stings, e.g.
- Apparatuses
- BYOB conveniences
- Entrapments
- Sting operations, e.g.
- Deceptions
- Blind dates, e.g.
More clues leading to the result SUCKERS
- Scam artist's marks
- "All-day" treats
- Fools
- P. T. Barnum's customers.
- Texas Guinan's clientele
- Patsies
- Chumps
- Easy marks
More clues leading to the result PAWNS
- Sacrificial sorts
- Lowly pieces
- Men on the front line?
- King's soldiers
- Little men
- Deposits as security for money
- Chess pieces
- Lowest value chess pieces
- Half a chess set
- Leaves in hock
More clues leading to the result GOATS
- Fall guys
- Blame magnets
- Bearers of blame
- Nanny and kin
- What kids grow up to be
- Billy and nanny
- Mountain leapers
- Some bucks
- Barnyard butters
- Grown-up kids