The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word STY , but the solution may also be AUTHOR which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Pen crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STY | 47 % | 3 |
| WRITE | 17 % | 5 |
| COOP | 6 % | 4 |
| CAGE | 3 % | 4 |
| ENCLOSE | 3 % | 7 |
| ENCAGE | 2 % | 6 |
| CAN | 2 % | 3 |
| FOLD | 1 % | 4 |
| HOOSEGOW | 1 % | 8 |
| AUTHOR | 1 % | 6 |
| JAIL | 1 % | 4 |
| PRISON | 1 % | 6 |
| STIR | 1 % | 4 |
| CORRAL | 1 % | 6 |
| CONFINE | 1 % | 7 |
| SLAMMER | 1 % | 7 |
| INCLOSURE | 1 % | 9 |
| INK | 1 % | 3 |
| BALLPOINT | 1 % | 9 |
| ENCLOSURE | 1 % | 9 |
| SWAN | 1 % | 4 |
| WRITEDOWN | 1 % | 9 |
| HOMEFORSOMEPIGS | 1 % | 15 |
| HUTCH | 1 % | 5 |
| BIGHOUSE | 1 % | 8 |
| POKY | 1 % | 4 |
| COOLER | 1 % | 6 |
| PIGSTY | 1 % | 6 |
Why may STY be the right solution?
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pen
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- playpen
- penitentiary
- compose
- indite
- write
- paddock
- corral
- basin
- sty
- bullpen
- wiper
- felt
Crossword Answer definitions
STY noun- A pen or enclosure for swine.
- A messy, dirty or debauched place.
- To place in, or as if in, a sty
- To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place
- A ladder.
- To ascend, rise up, climb.
- An inflammation of the eyelid.
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 STY
More clues leading to the result WRITE
- Pen
- Author
- Jot down
- Use a pen
- Do some Picayune work
- Make plays?
- Put pen to paper
- Keep in touch
- Correspond
- Make tracts
More clues leading to the result COOP
- Roosting place
- Where a rooster roosts
- College house with volunteer labor
- Structure with layers
- Hen pen
- Chicken's home
- It's full of chicken shit
- Pen
- Harvard Square store
- Harvard Square fixture
More clues leading to the result CAGE
- American composer of "Musicircus"
- Lovebirds' home
- Parakeet pad
- Pen up
- Kennel confinement
- Animal house?
- Farm enclosure
- Rockers ___ the Elephant
- Movable backstop
- Bar room?
More clues leading to the result ENCLOSE
- Fence in
- Wall off
- Stuff into an envelope
- Hem in
- Include in the envelope
- Place in an envelope
- Fence off
- Put in the envelope
- Put inside
- Wrap
More clues leading to the result ENCAGE
- Lock up in a bar room?
- Confine, as a canary
- Coop up
- Place behind bars
- Keep, as a pet bird
- Put behind bars
- Imprison
- Confine
- Coop up in a coop
- Keep in a coop
More clues leading to the result CAN
- Food holder
- Lay off
- Fire
- Pantry item
- Preserve
- Dismiss
- Issue walking papers to
- Recyclable item
- Recycled item
- Soup unit
More clues leading to the result FOLD
- Quit at cards
- Pleat
- Turn over one's hand
- Finish the laundry
- Make a paper crane, say
- Make origami, e.g.
- Go under
- Toss in one's hand
- Drop one's hand
- Go bankrupt
More clues leading to the result HOOSEGOW
More clues leading to the result AUTHOR
- One who works with a lot of characters
- Storyteller
- Curtain call cry
- Novel producer
- Tan or Brown
- Write
- J.K. Rowling, for one
- Novelist
- Lamb or Rice
- Name on a spine
More clues leading to the result JAIL
- Pokey
- Stir
- Hoosegow
- Monopoly corner
- Where one is immured
- The clink
- It neighbors Connecticut
- Carceral site
- Lockup
- Incarcerate
More clues leading to the result PRISON
- "Folsom __ Blues"
- Con-dominium?
- Big house
- "Stone walls do not a ___ make ...": Richard Lovelace
- "Folsom ___ Blues"
- Slammer
- Sing Sing, for one
- Place of con confinement
- The time there might be five to ten
- Place where con jobs are common?
More clues leading to the result STIR
- Begin to move
- Brouhaha
- Combine
- Cooking direction
- Mix up
- Ruckus
- Tend to the batter
- Tend to the sauce
- Use a swizzle stick
- __-crazy
More clues leading to the result CORRAL
- Ranch enclosure
- Stock holder
- A famous one was O.K.
- The O.K., e.g.
- Bring together
- Horse-breaking locale
- O.K. location for a gunfight?
- Bull pen
- Cattle pen
- Steer enclosure
More clues leading to the result CONFINE
More clues leading to the result SLAMMER
More clues leading to the result INCLOSURE
More clues leading to the result INK
- Sign, as a contract
- Squid juice
- Writing fluid
- Calamari ejection
- Cephalopod's defense
- Invisible __
- Press coverage
- Shirt-pocket stain, often
- Sign
- Sign up
More clues leading to the result BALLPOINT
More clues leading to the result ENCLOSURE
- Pen, e.g.
- Ring or rink
- SASE, e.g.
- Check, often
- A check inside a letter, for instance.
- Paddock or corral.
- Corral.
- Pen
- Pen, say
More clues leading to the result SWAN
- __ song (final performance)
- Graceful bird
- Song or dive preceder
- Tchaikovsky's "__ Lake"
- "___ Lake"
- Graceful swimmer
- The Ugly Duckling, really
- Trumpeter, for one
- Pen that swims
- The ugly duckling, actually
More clues leading to the result WRITEDOWN
More clues leading to the result HOMEFORSOMEPIGS
More clues leading to the result HUTCH
- Rabbit pen
- Pet rabbit's abode
- Chicken-wire construction
- Storage chest
- Starsky's partner
- Cabinet
- Rabbit residence
- Rabbit coop
- Coop
- Storage cabinet
More clues leading to the result BIGHOUSE
- Pen
- Nickname for the football stadium at the University of Michigan
- Penitentiary, in slang
- Michigan Stadium nickname, with "The"
- Background for gangster films
More clues leading to the result POKY
- Slow
- Slow-paced
- Dawdling
- Slow as molasses
- Far from fleet
- Puttering
- Inclined to dawdle
- Taking one's good old time
- Hoosegow
- Slammer
More clues leading to the result COOLER
- Ice chest
- Picnic box
- Place for beer
- More like the Canadian Arctic, perhaps
- Picnic container
- Jail, slangily
- Lockup
- Slammer
- Bud holder?
- Picnic convenience