The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DEFER , but the solution may also be DETER which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Put off crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DEFER | 40 % | 5 |
| DELAY | 9 % | 5 |
| TABLE | 8 % | 5 |
| ALIENATE | 7 % | 8 |
| DETER | 7 % | 5 |
| POSTPONE | 6 % | 8 |
| DEFERRED | 3 % | 8 |
| ALIENATED | 3 % | 9 |
| STALL | 2 % | 5 |
| TABLED | 2 % | 6 |
| DAUNTED | 1 % | 7 |
| REPEL | 1 % | 5 |
| REPELLED | 1 % | 8 |
| DELAYED | 1 % | 7 |
| REMIT | 1 % | 5 |
| REPULSE | 1 % | 7 |
| SHELVE | 1 % | 6 |
| POSTPONED | 1 % | 9 |
| EMIT | 1 % | 4 |
| DISGUSTED | 1 % | 9 |
| PROCRASTINATE | 1 % | 13 |
| STALLED | 1 % | 7 |
| FAZE | 1 % | 4 |
| LETSLIDE | 1 % | 8 |
| ESTRANGE | 1 % | 8 |
| DAUNT | 1 % | 5 |
| IRKED | 1 % | 5 |
Why may DISGUSTED be the right solution?
Unknown. "Disgusted" does not seem like a fitting answer for "put off".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Put off
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shelve
- sidestep
- table
- circumvent
- skirt
- confuse
- postpone
- defer
- fudge
- evade
- flurry
- duck
Crossword Answer definitions
DEFER verb- To delay or postpone
- After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
- To delay, to wait.
- To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
- To render, to offer.
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 DEFER
- Put off
- Hold off
- Yield to another's wishes
- Postpone, as an action
- Put off till later
- Bow, in a way
- Postpone
- Table
- Wait for a better time
- Submit to authority
More clues leading to the result DELAY
- Put off
- Foot-dragging
- Interruption
- Airport bummer
- 117-Across downer
- Hold up
- Put on hold
- Postponement
- Airport aggravation
- Digital transmission problem
More clues leading to the result TABLE
- Defer
- Postpone
- Put aside for later
- Take up later
- Put aside
- "___ for two?" (maître d's question)
- Changing ___
- Chart with columns
- Arrangement of stats
- List with columns
More clues leading to the result ALIENATE
- Estrange
- Make hostile
- Drive off, as fans
- Keep at a distance
- Turn off, in a big way
- Distance
- Push away
- Turn into an extraterrestrial?
- Cause hostility in
- Drive away
More clues leading to the result DETER
More clues leading to the result POSTPONE
More clues leading to the result DEFERRED
More clues leading to the result ALIENATED
- Torn apart
- Drove off
- Feeling like an outcast
- Turned off
- Put off
- Disaffected
- Cut off from society
- Estranged.
- Turned friends to foes.
- Transferred ownership of (property).
More clues leading to the result STALL
- Conk out
- Flea-market division
- Park place?
- Play for time
- Bathroom unit
- Merchandise booth
- Engine problem
- Bazaar booth
- Booth
- Buy time
More clues leading to the result TABLED
- Postponed
- Set aside
- Postponed indefinitely
- Decided to discuss later
- Put off
- Set aside for later discussion
- Chose not to discuss now
- Shelved
- Laid aside for future reference.
- Postponed, as a matter for legislation.
More clues leading to the result DAUNTED
- Discouraged
- Intimidated
- Treading lightly, perhaps
- Dismayed.
- Disheartened.
- Intimidated.
- Cowed.
- Overawed.
- Disheartened
- Put off
More clues leading to the result REPEL
More clues leading to the result REPELLED
- Drove away
- Fought off
- Driven away
- Forced back.
- Warded off
- Drove back
- Forced back
- Disgusted
- Caused distaste
- Put off
More clues leading to the result DELAYED
More clues leading to the result REMIT
More clues leading to the result REPULSE
- Drive back
- Really offend
- Ward off
- More than turn off
- Force back, as an army
- Turn off
- Disgust
- Beat back
- Drive back, as an enemy
- Turn back
More clues leading to the result SHELVE
- Postpone
- Put aside
- Put away for a while
- Put away, in a way
- Put aside, for a while
- Help the librarian
- Do a librarian's chore
- Put on hold
- Put on the back burner
- Do a librarian's task
More clues leading to the result POSTPONED
More clues leading to the result EMIT
More clues leading to the result DISGUSTED
More clues leading to the result PROCRASTINATE
More clues leading to the result STALLED
- Stonewalled
- Making no progress
- Played for time
- Needing a push
- Came to a temporary standstill
- Came to a standstill
- Stopped suddenly, as an engine
- Delayed
- Conked out
- Bought time
More clues leading to the result FAZE
More clues leading to the result LETSLIDE
- Leave unattended
- Leave undone
- Allow to deteriorate
- Forgive
- Not do anything about
- Decide not to intervene
- Be forgiving
- Put off
- Don't make a fuss over
- Pardon
More clues leading to the result ESTRANGE
- Alienate
- Make an enemy of
- Disaffect
- Turn off
- Push away
- Alienate.
- Cause a person's ardor to cool.
- Cause coldness between.
- Turn away.
- Come between.