The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ROAST , but the solution may also be FLAY which is one of the most recent solution (2014 in Newsday).
Rake over the coals crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROAST | 21 % | 5 |
| SCOLD | 21 % | 5 |
| BERATE | 14 % | 6 |
| SCATHE | 14 % | 6 |
| FLAY | 7 % | 4 |
| PAN | 7 % | 3 |
| CHIDE | 4 % | 5 |
| YELLAT | 4 % | 6 |
| CHEWOUT | 4 % | 7 |
| LAMBASTE | 4 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rake over the coals
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- rake someone over the coals
- rake over old coals
- rake over
- blow the coals
- work over
- haul someone over the coals
- pull someone over the coals
- call on the carpet
- take to task
- step on a rake
- draw fire
- rouse
Crossword Answer definitions
ROAST noun- A cut of meat suited to roasting
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
- To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To admonish someone vigorously
- To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.
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 ROAST
- Insult, kiddingly
- Butcher shop choice
- Prepare coffee beans
- Certain Sunday dinner
- Dean Martin specialty
- Dis-honor?
- Recent Justin Bieber event
- Friars' gathering
- Honor with insults
- Dinner that may be tough to swallow for the guest of honor
More clues leading to the result SCOLD
- Dress down
- Give a talking-to to
- Read the riot act to
- Give somebody the business
- Rake over the coals
- Give a tongue-lashing
- Virago
- Chide
- Wag an index at
- Upbraid
More clues leading to the result BERATE
- Take to task
- Tear into
- Scold
- Chew out
- Give a tongue-lashing to
- Dress down
- Tell off big-time
- Assail verbally
- Put down
- Chide
More clues leading to the result SCATHE
- Denounce bitterly
- Criticize harshly
- Lay into
- Do harm to
- Intensely criticize
- Do damage to
- Rake over the coals
- Harm
- Attack with severe criticism
- Criticize severely
More clues leading to the result FLAY
- TV chef Bobby
- Peel off, as skin
- Whip
- Chew out
- Scold severely
- Celebrity chef Bobby
- Celebrity chef Bobby of "Boy Meets Grill"
- Horsewhip
- Give a tongue-lashing to
- Scold scathingly
More clues leading to the result PAN
- Give one star to
- God often pictured with pipes
- Forty-niners tool
- Move while filming
- Play critic
- Scathing review
- Rotate the camera
- Omelet-maker's need, unless you boil your omelets or cook them in the toaster I suppose
- Critically disdain
- Muffin tin, e.g.
More clues leading to the result CHIDE
- Reproach
- Scold
- Admonish
- Reprimand
- Tsk-tsk
- Call on the carpet
- Censure severely
- Find fault
- Reprimand mildly
- Scold mildly
More clues leading to the result YELLAT
- Reprimand loudly
- Shout towards
- Vituperate
- Rip a new one
- Scold bigtime
- Berate loudly
- Reprimand
- Abuse verbally
- Attack vocally
- Dress down loudly, e.g.