Answer to ""Rats!"" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DARN , but the solution may also be DARN IT! which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

"Rats!" crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
DARN	24 %	4
DANG	11 %	4
DARNIT	10 %	6
DRAT	5 %	4
OHNO	5 %	4
OHDARN	4 %	6
PHOOEY	4 %	6
DANGIT	4 %	6
STOOLIES	3 %	8
DESERTERS	2 %	9
SHOOT	1 %	5
HECK	1 %	4
OHCRUD	1 %	6
OHHELL	1 %	6
FINKS	1 %	5
TATTLETALES	1 %	11
EEK	1 %	3
TATTLES	1 %	7
DOGGONEIT	1 %	9
CRUD	1 %	4
BLASTIT	1 %	7
BAH	1 %	3
SQUEALSON	1 %	9
DOUBLECROSSERS	1 %	14
OHHECK	1 %	6
SHIPDESERTERS	1 %	13
PIEDPIPERSTRAIL	1 %	15
DURN	1 %	4
AWHECK	1 %	6
DASHITALL	1 %	9
VERMIN	1 %	6
SQUEALERS	1 %	9
SINGS	1 %	5
TATTLERS	1 %	8
PFUI	1 %	4
DARN IT!	1 %	8
UHOH	1 %	4
PHOO	1 %	4
TELLS	1 %	5
OHSNAP	1 %	6
ARG	1 %	3
NAMESNAMES	1 %	10
SNITCHES	1 %	8
AWGEE	1 %	5
TRAITORS	1 %	8
NERTS	1 %	5
CURSES	1 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: "Rats!"

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

• shit
• snitch
• skunk
• bum
• informer
• puke
• lowlife
• squealer
• stinker
• grass
• shop
• blackleg

Crossword Answer definitions

DARN verb

1. Euphemism of damn.

DARN adjective

1. Damn.

DARN adverb

1. (degree) Damned.

DARN interjection

1. Damn.

DARN noun

1. A place mended by darning.

DARN verb

1. To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.

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 DARN

• Fix
• Repair a stocking
• Repair socks
• Do mending
• Fix a hole
• Word said while snapping fingers
• Phooey
• Sock-mender's oath?
• "Well, heck!"
• "Fiddlesticks!"

More clues leading to the result DANG

• "Durn it!"
• "Aw, shoot"
• "Confound it!"
• "Oh Lawd!"
• "Shoot!"
• "Doggone!"
• "Goldurn it!"
• Roger Miller expletive
• "The Far Side" expletive
• Mild expletive

More clues leading to the result DARNIT

• "Phooey!"
• "Rats!"
• "Rats"
• "Aw, heck!"
• "Nuts!"
• "Shoot!"
• "Dang!"
• "Crud!"
• "Blast!"
• Phrase of displeasure

More clues leading to the result DRAT

• "Curses!"
• "Fiddlesticks!"
• "Phooey!"
• "Shoot!"
• Mild expletive
• "Doggone it!"
• Cartoon expletive
• Darn it!
• Shucks!
• Expression of annoyance

More clues leading to the result OHNO

• "This can't be!"
• Follows an accident
• Words of dismay
• "Sakes alive!"
• "Say it ain't so!"
• Rats!
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Dammit all!"
• Speed skating gold medalist
• "Can't be..."

More clues leading to the result OHDARN

• Phrase said while sarcastically snapping one's fingers
• "Rats"
• "Shucks!"
• "Phooey!"
• "Drat!"
• "Rats!"
• "Shoot!"
• "Fiddlesticks!"
• "Phooey!"
• Mild oath

More clues leading to the result PHOOEY

• "Aw, shucks!"
• Hong Kong ___ (Hanna-Barbera toon)
• "Bah!"
• "Rats!"
• Disappointed cry
• "Nuts!"
• Exclamation of disgust
• "Nerts!"
• Cry of disappointment

More clues leading to the result DANGIT

• "Phooey!"
• "Rats!"
• "Aw, shucks!"
• "Blast!"
• "Drat!"
• Mild expletive
• Mild oath
• "Shoot!"
• "Fiddlesticks!"
• 'Rats!'

More clues leading to the result STOOLIES

• Informants
• Canaries
• They'll tell
• They can't be trusted
• Rats
• Finks
• Tip sources
• Informers: Slang.
• Ratfinks
• Singing group

More clues leading to the result DESERTERS

• Permanent AWOLs
• Court-martial candidates
• Runaways
• RATS
• They're out of here
• They're way off-base
• AWOL-ers.
• Renegades.
• Turncoats.
• Military problem-people

More clues leading to the result SHOOT

• Film session
• Take pictures
• Use a camera
• Small sprout
• "Gol-durn!"
• Session with a photog
• "Tell me"
• "Go ahead, ask"
• "Darn it!"
• Pull the trigger

More clues leading to the result HECK

• "Gee"
• "Golly"
• Kin of 114 Across
• Mild form of hell?
• "What the ___!"
• "Aw, darn it"
• Prude's curse word
• Non-bleeped expletive
• "Doggone!"
• All get-out

More clues leading to the result OHCRUD

• Shit in front of the kids?
• "I was hoping that wouldn't happen"
• "Shoot!"
• "Dang it!"
• "Rats!"
• "Shoot, shoot, shoot"
• "This is a problem!"

More clues leading to the result OHHELL

• *Mild cursing phrase*
• Card game
• "Rats!"
• "Crud!"
• Card game with a PG-rated name
• "Gosh darn it!"
• Trick-taking card game

More clues leading to the result FINKS

• Rats
• Tattletales
• Snitches
• Stool pigeons
• Stoolies
• Informers
• Strikebreakers
• Rats; stoolies
• Tellers?
• Informants, informally

More clues leading to the result TATTLETALES

• Playground snitches
• Rats
• Types of gossips.
• Stool pigeons

More clues leading to the result EEK

• "A mouse!"
• Cartoon cry
• Cartoon scream
• Comic-strip squeal
• Comics scream
• Cry of alarm
• Exclamation of fright
• Shout of startlement
• "____, a mouse!"
• Cartoon shriek

More clues leading to the result TATTLES

• Gives away
• Sings
• Tells all
• Snitches
• Acts the snitch
• Tells secrets.
• Gives away secrets.
• Chatters.
• Gossips.
• Tells tales.

More clues leading to the result DOGGONEIT

• Words said while stomping one's feet
• "Drat!"
• Rats' relative
• "Rats!"
• Words of disappointment

More clues leading to the result CRUD

• Foul matter
• Loathsome stuff
• Odure
• "Dammit!"
• Gunk
• Caked deposit
• Vile substance
• Icky stuff
• Filthy deposit
• Yucky buildup

More clues leading to the result BLASTIT

• "Doggone!"
• "Darn that rocket!"?
• "Rats!"
• "Dang!"
• "Aarrghh!"
• "Fiddlesticks!"

More clues leading to the result BAH

• Cry to Cratchit
• Dickensian epithet
• Pooh-__
• Scrooge's retort
• ___ Humbug
• Scrooge's favorite reply
• Ebenezer's epithet
• Grouch's word
• Scrooge's oath
• "Phooey!"

More clues leading to the result SQUEALSON

• Rats

More clues leading to the result DOUBLECROSSERS

• Puzzle people gone bad?
• RATS!

More clues leading to the result OHHECK

• "Gosh darn!"
• "Shucks!"
• 'Rats!'

More clues leading to the result SHIPDESERTERS

• RATS

More clues leading to the result PIEDPIPERSTRAIL

• RATS

More clues leading to the result DURN

• "Shucks"
• Kin of "Shucks!"
• "Doggone!"
• "Heck!"
• "Yer ___ tootin'!"
• "Yer __ tootin'!"
• Rural "Rats!"
• Kin of "Heck!"
• Farmer's expletive.
• Mortimer Snerd expletive.

More clues leading to the result AWHECK

• "Dang" or "shucks"
• Exclamation of frustration
• "Rats!"

More clues leading to the result DASHITALL

• Dodge dealer's "Darn!"?
• "Darn!"
• "Rats!"

More clues leading to the result VERMIN

• Pest control target
• Rats and cockroaches
• Lowlifes
• Mice and lice
• Rats and such
• Roaches, e.g.
• Buzzard's snack, perhaps
• Household pests
• Unsavory ones
• Rats, mice, weasels, etc.

More clues leading to the result SQUEALERS

• Informers: Slang.
• Canaries.
• Rats

More clues leading to the result SINGS

• Tells all, gangland style
• Belts or croons
• Whines shrilly
• Competes on "The Voice"
• Joins the chorus
• Turns state's evidence
• Blabs
• Emulates 12-Down
• Belts out numbers
• Tells the cops everything

More clues leading to the result TATTLERS

• Telltales
• Snitches
• Ratter-outers
• Gossips.
• Gossipy ones
• School stoolies
• Rats
• Secret spillers

More clues leading to the result PFUI

• Kin of bah
• "Bah, humbug!"
• Nero Wolfe exclamation
• "Rats!", as some write it
• "Drat!"
• Sound of contempt.
• Disgusted exclamation, from the German.
• For shame!: Ger.
• Nero Wolfe exclamation.
• Nero Wolfe's expletive.

More clues leading to the result DARN IT!

• “Rats!”
• “Aw, man!”

More clues leading to the result UHOH

• "Oops"
• "We're in deep doo-doo!"
• "Here comes trouble!"
• Oops!
• Robert Fulgham best seller
• Concerned expression
• "Yipes!"
• "Fffffff..."
• "I have a bad feeling about this"
• "I think I stepped in something"

More clues leading to the result PHOO

• "Rats!"
• Bah!
• Exclamation of contempt.
• Cry of contempt.
• Word of contempt.
• Relative of bah
• Cry of contempt
• "This tastes horrible!"
• "This tastes terrible!"

More clues leading to the result TELLS

• Acts the tattletale
• Acts the rat
• Spills the beans
• Informs positively
• Relates
• Blabs
• Does some narration
• States
• Narrates
• De-bags the cat

More clues leading to the result OHSNAP

• "Ya burnt!"
• Response to an impressive put-down
• Playful commentary on a well-delivered zinger
• Response to a good barb
• Response to a clever put-down
• "Sick burn!"
• Clever barb response
• Response to 59 Across
• Response to a good dig
• Playful response to a good insult

More clues leading to the result ARG

• S.A power
• 1978 World Cup champs: Abbr.
• 1986 World Cup champs: Abbr.
• 2014 World Cup runners-up: Abbr.
• Group B winner of the 2010 World Cup: Abbr.
• S.A. nation
• Country in S.A.
• Lionel Messi's home nat.
• Bol. neighbor
• Cry of frustration

More clues leading to the result NAMESNAMES

• Specifies one's accomplices
• Rats
• Specifies one's cohorts in crime
• Sings, so to speak
• Gives details
• Gets specific
• Succumbs to interrogation, perhaps
• Sings
• Identifies, like Dubya didn't
• Divulges all

More clues leading to the result SNITCHES

• Bad singers?
• Rats (on)
• Rats

More clues leading to the result AWGEE

• "Bummer"
• "Shucks!"
• "Bummer!"
• Disappointed comment
• Foot-scuffing remark
• "___, do I have to?"
• Words accompanying a blush
• "That's too bad"
• "That's rough"
• "What a shame"

More clues leading to the result TRAITORS

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by some accounts
• Vidkun Quisling and Benedict Arnold
• Turncoats
• Quislings
• Faithless ones.
• Betrayers.
• Turncoats.
• Arnold et al.
• Betrayers
• "Our fears do make us ___": Shak.

More clues leading to the result NERTS

• "Phooey!"
• "Fug!"
• Old fashioned outburst
• Slangy refusal
• "Fiddlesticks!"
• "Fudge!"
• "Drat!"
• Mild oath
• "Nonsense!"
• Old-fashioned outburst

More clues leading to the result CURSES

• Evil spells
• Swears
• Villain's cry
• Puts a hex on
• Foiled villain's cry
• Foiled villain's shout
• Blasphemes
• Maledictions
• Villain's expletive
• Villain's outburst