The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SOFTY , but the solution may also be PATSY which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Pushover crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SOFTY | 33 % | 5 |
| SOFTIE | 25 % | 6 |
| PATSY | 14 % | 5 |
| SNAP | 8 % | 4 |
| SOFTTOUCH | 4 % | 9 |
| DOORMAT | 4 % | 7 |
| BREEZE | 2 % | 6 |
| WIMP | 2 % | 4 |
| DUPE | 2 % | 4 |
| ASOFTTOUCH | 2 % | 10 |
| CINCH | 2 % | 5 |
| CREAMPUFF | 2 % | 9 |
Why may SOFTY be the right solution?
"Pushover" is a slang term for a person who is easily influenced or manipulated. "Softy" means a person who is easily moved to sympathy or emotion, and can be easily influenced or manipulated, making it a fitting answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pushover
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- piece of cake
- walkover
- duck soup
- snap
- cinch
- picnic
- softy
- beginner
- rookie
- novice
- weak
- beginning
Crossword Answer definitions
SOFTY noun- A weak or sentimental person.
- Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish.
- A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.
- A soft drink containing no alcohol.
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 SOFTY
- Pushover
- Sentimental one
- Spoiler, maybe
- Marshmallow
- Sentimental soul
- Tender-hearted soul
- Easy touch
- Dewy-eyed sort
- Sentimental sort
- Hardly the drill sergeant type
More clues leading to the result SOFTIE
- Sentimental soul
- Pushover
- One with a big heart
- Sentimental sort
- Sentimental type
- Lenient sort
- Ultra-easygoing one
- Pussycat
- Lenient person
- A sentimentalist.
More clues leading to the result PATSY
- Sucker
- "Crazy" singer Cline
- "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline
- Dupe
- Fall guy
- Easy mark
- Cline of country
- Pushover
- Swindler's victim
- Easily duped sort
More clues leading to the result SNAP
- One of the Rice Krispies sounds
- A Rice Krispies sound
- Coat closer
- Kind of cookie
- Lose it
- Sodium hydroxide
- Cookie variety
- Crackle's colleague
- Fastener
- Jacket fastener
More clues leading to the result SOFTTOUCH
- Bleeding heart
- Pushover
- Impressionable type
- One who falls for sob stories
- Easy money source
- Easy mark
- Ready victim.
- One who'll easily lend money for a hard-luck story
- SAJAK
- Borrower's easy target
More clues leading to the result DOORMAT
- Easily beatable opponent
- Picked-on sort
- Overly unassertive person
- Perennial target of abuse
- Habitually humiliated one
- It may say "Welcome"
- Perennial losing team, slangily
- Something to wipe your boots on
- Hardly the assertive type
- Milquetoast
More clues leading to the result BREEZE
- Gentle wind
- Piece of cake
- Something to shoot in conversation?
- Zephyr
- Simple task
- Easy task, informally
- Pleasant wind
- Succeed without difficulty, with "in"
- Cakewalk
- Cross-ventilation result
More clues leading to the result WIMP
- Weakling
- Weak person
- Milquetoast
- Cream puff
- Unlikely bodybuilder
- Sissy
- Namby-pamby
- Spineless sort
- Hardly a he-man
- Timid type
More clues leading to the result DUPE
More clues leading to the result ASOFTTOUCH
More clues leading to the result CINCH
- Snap
- Pushover
- Lead-pipe ___ (sure thing)
- Piece of cake
- Sure thing
- Tight grip
- Belt style
- Hardly a problem
- Certainty
- Lead-pipe thing?