The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GAOLS , but the solution may also be CAGES which is one of the most recent solution (2005 in USA Today).
Places of confinement crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GAOLS | 33 % | 5 |
| COOPS | 33 % | 5 |
| CAGES | 33 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Places of confinement
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bars
- custody
- detention
- large
- gate
- accommodation
- apart
- depot
- detentions
- diaspora
- dislocation
- distance
Crossword Answer definitions
GAOLS noun- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- Confinement in a jail.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- To imprison.
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 GAOLS
- London lockups
- British jails
- Coventry coolers
- Prisons of Penzance
- Leeds lockups
- Pens of England
- Plymouth pokies
- Pens for Dickens?
- Suffolk slammers
- Southampton stirs
More clues leading to the result COOPS
- Campus hippie hangouts
- Hen dens
- Poultry buildings
- Fowl buildings
- Prisons, slangily
- Hens' pens
- Pens for hens
- Chicken holders
- Some apartments
- Farm houses