Answer to "Pull strings" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PLUCK which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2014.

Pull strings crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
PLUCK	40 %	5
STRUM	27 %	5
UNDO	13 %	4
TUNE	13 %	4
UNTIE	7 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pull strings

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• pull a few strings
• pull the wires
• pull
• fiddle with
• pull someone's leg
• push the right buttons
• pull for
• ask for it
• twist someone's arm
• pull someone's chain
• play someone like a violin
• put words in someone's mouth

Crossword Answer definitions

PLUCK noun

1. An instance of plucking.
2. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
3. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
4. Cheap wine.

PLUCK verb

1. To pull something sharply; to pull something out
2. To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
3. To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
4. To remove feathers from a bird.
5. To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
6. To play a string instrument pizzicato.
7. To pull or twitch sharply.
8. (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
9. Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

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 PLUCK

• Play, as a ukulele
• Play pizzicato
• Courage
• Get down?
• True grit
• Grit
• Gritty quality
• Moxie
• Yank out
• Courage.

More clues leading to the result STRUM

• Do some picking
• Use a pick
• Play the lute
• Pull strings?
• Play, as a ukulele
• Sweep the strings
• Play, in a way
• Opt not to pick?
• Play guitar
• Play, as a zither

More clues leading to the result UNDO

• Disconnect
• Erase
• Loosen
• Reverse
• Rub out
• Open
• Reverse, in a way
• Take apart
• Take back
• PC command

More clues leading to the result TUNE

• Adjust a radio
• Melody
• Use a fork, in a way
• Pull strings?
• Something to whistle
• Air
• Adjust, as a motor
• Jukebox pick
• Change into a G-string, say?
• Do an upright job?

More clues leading to the result UNTIE

• Loosen
• Loosen a four-in-hand
• Loosen the oxfords
• Remove, as a knot
• Free
• Loosen the brogans
• Set free
• Set loose
• Disengage shoelaces?
• Loosen laces