The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CANS , but the solution may also be SAVES which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in Newsday).
Preserves crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CANS | 32 % | 4 |
| CURES | 22 % | 5 |
| SALTS | 10 % | 5 |
| SAVES | 6 % | 5 |
| KEEPS | 6 % | 5 |
| CORNS | 6 % | 5 |
| MAINTAINS | 4 % | 9 |
| JAMS | 4 % | 4 |
| RETAINS | 2 % | 7 |
| WILDERNESSAREAS | 2 % | 15 |
| TINS | 2 % | 4 |
| JAM | 2 % | 3 |
| EMBALMS | 2 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Preserves
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- conserve
- conserves
- tinned
- canned
- canning
- uphold
- guards
- cans
- reserve
- remains
- respects
- keep
Crossword Answer definitions
CANS noun- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
- Buttocks.
- Jail or prison.
- (in the plural) Headphones.
- A drinking cup.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- (in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- To seal in a can.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To shut up.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To hole the ball.
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 CANS
- Puts up?
- Some recyclables
- Preserves
- Recyclables
- Blocks someone from their trade?
- Ends of a certain homemade phone
- Food drive offerings
- Fires
- Supermarket stack
- Bomb shelter items
More clues leading to the result CURES
- Preserves meat
- Remedies
- Makes better
- Medical breakthroughs
- Medical grails
- Nostrums
- Word used by a patent-medicine salesman
- Salts one's meat, possibly
- They're sought for sicknesses
- Antidotes
More clues leading to the result SALTS
- Adds zest to
- Does a post-icestorm chore
- Preserves, in a way
- Seasons
- Smelling ___
- Adds seasoning
- Epsom and table
- Popeye's buddies
- Flavors, in a way
- Pirate types
More clues leading to the result SAVES
- Accumulates interest
- Frees from danger
- Goalies' specialties
- Pinches pennies
- Stores for a rainy day
- Squirrels away
- Goalie's pride
- Reliever's stats
- Goalie's stats
- Stat for Papelbon
More clues leading to the result KEEPS
- Retains
- Play for __
- Castle sanctuaries
- Holds on to
- Doesn't chuck
- Doesn't spoil, as food
- Playing for ___
- What some play for
- Has in inventory
- Hangs onto
More clues leading to the result CORNS
- Podiatric issues
- Prepares beef, in a way
- They often get under one's feet
- Ultramarathoner's ailments
- Toes' woes
- Woes for toes
- Foot woes
- Foot faults?
- Treats meats
- Foot faults
More clues leading to the result MAINTAINS
More clues leading to the result JAMS
- Tight spots
- Rush hour slowdowns
- Good songs, as it were
- Photocopier woes
- Plays with the band
- Spreads on the table
- Pickles or quandaries
- Printer problems
- Photocopier malfunctions
- Highway hassles
More clues leading to the result RETAINS
- Keeps in mind
- Hires, as a lawyer
- Keeps
- Hires, in a way
- Continues to hold
- Engages, as an attorney
- Holds on to
- Hires to handle the case
- Doesn't give up
- Keeps possession of
More clues leading to the result WILDERNESSAREAS
More clues leading to the result TINS
- Baking pans
- Coffee cans
- Coffee holders
- English cans
- Canterbury cans
- Baking containers
- Kitchen containers
- Kona containers
- Makeshift pots
- Some recyclables
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?