The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BETRAYS , but the solution may also be TELLS which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Rats on crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
BETRAYS | 25 % | 7 |
SNITCHES | 25 % | 8 |
TELLS | 25 % | 5 |
NARCS | 25 % | 5 |
Why may TELLS be the right solution?
The phrase "rats on" means to inform on or betray someone. "Tells" is a synonym for informing on someone, making it the correct answer.
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Crossword Answer definitions
BETRAYS verb- To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
- To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
- To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
- To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
- To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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 BETRAYS
- Sells out
- Crosses
- Acts disloyally
- Reveals inadvertently.
- Emulates Judas
- Gives away, in a way
- Emulates Delilah
- Sells down the river
- Gives away
- Backstabs
More clues leading to the result SNITCHES
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