Answer to "Relatives of dark horses" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SLEEPERS , but the solution may also be CANDIDATES which is one of the most recent solution (1956 in New York Times).

Relatives of dark horses crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SLEEPERS	50 %	8
CANDIDATES	50 %	10

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Relatives of dark horses

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

• sleepers
• roan
• heaves
• horae
• horse
• neat
• biracial
• buckeye
• elephant
• foal
• half-blood
• hippocastanaceae

Crossword Answer definitions

SLEEPERS noun

1. Someone who sleeps.
2. That which lies dormant, as a law.
3. A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
4. A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
5. A railway sleeping car.
6. A sleeper hold.
7. Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
8. A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.
9. A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
10. A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
11. An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
12. A sedative.

SLEEPERS noun

1. A railroad tie.
2. A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
3. A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
4. The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

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 SLEEPERS

• Dr. Denton's
• Long shots
• Unexpected successes
• Dr. Dentons
• Dark horses
• Certain train segments
• Unexpected hits
• Baby's nightwear
• Ones in dreamland
• Pullman cars

More clues leading to the result CANDIDATES

• Degree seekers
• Ones under consideration
• Relatives of dark horses.
• Men on the hustings.
• Certain runners
• Campaigners
• Election Day hopefuls
• Hopefuls at the polls
• Runners
• Ticket information