The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SEEDY , but the solution may also be RATTY which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Run-down crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SEEDY | 65 % | 5 |
| RATTY | 5 % | 5 |
| DIS | 3 % | 3 |
| SEAMY | 3 % | 5 |
| SLUR | 2 % | 4 |
| RECAP | 1 % | 5 |
| SLEAZY | 1 % | 6 |
| CREAKY | 1 % | 6 |
| TIRE | 1 % | 4 |
| RAMSHACKLE | 1 % | 10 |
| BADMOUTH | 1 % | 8 |
| PURSUE | 1 % | 6 |
| DILAPIDATED | 1 % | 11 |
| ITEMIZE | 1 % | 7 |
| SHODDY | 1 % | 6 |
| GRUNGY | 1 % | 6 |
| SLOPE | 1 % | 5 |
| SNEERAT | 1 % | 7 |
| SORDID | 1 % | 6 |
| RAP | 1 % | 3 |
| DENIGRATE | 1 % | 9 |
| CRUMMY | 1 % | 6 |
| TIRED | 1 % | 5 |
| MAKEFUNOF | 1 % | 9 |
| GETTIRED | 1 % | 8 |
| DEFAME | 1 % | 6 |
| WEARIED | 1 % | 7 |
| WEARY | 1 % | 5 |
| DECREPIT | 1 % | 8 |
| DERELICT | 1 % | 8 |
Why may RATTY be the right solution?
"RATTY" is the right solution because it is a synonym for "run-down," meaning something in poor or shabby condition.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Run-down
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- scan
- skim
- check out
- run out
- exhaust
- tire
- rake
- sap
- conk out
- glance over
- peter out
- poop out
Crossword Answer definitions
SEEDY adjective- Full of seeds.
- Disreputable, run-down.
- Untidy; unkempt.
- Infirm; unwell; gone to seed.
- Suffering the effects of a hangover.
- Having the flavour of seeds.
- Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
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 SEEDY
- Like a fleabag
- Not exactly elegant
- Adjective for Burpee's business?
- In sorry shape
- Far from four-star
- Ragtag
- Run-down
- Shabby
- Far from posh
- Disreputable
More clues leading to the result RATTY
- Well-worn
- Dilapidated
- Somewhat rundown
- In shabby shape
- Overrun with vermin
- Tattered and torn
- Shabby
- Torn and tattered
- Dirty and unkempt
- Wretched
More clues leading to the result DIS
- Belittle, in slang
- Put down, modern-style
- Treat without respect
- Trash
- Treat without respect, slangily
- Drive filler
- Bad-mouth, in the 'hood
- Put down, in the 'hood
- Insult at the center of this puzzle's long answers
- Bad-mouth
More clues leading to the result SEAMY
- Sordid
- Hardly wholesome
- Disreputable
- Squalid
- Squalid and sordid
- Unsavory
- Like a city's underbelly
- Run-down
- Somewhat sordid
- Not reputable
More clues leading to the result SLUR
- Aspersion
- Pronounce indistinctly
- Disparage
- Calumny
- Bad-mouth
- Cast aspersions on
- Insulting words
- N-bomb, e.g.
- Sound like you've had a few too many
- Speak indistinctly
More clues leading to the result RECAP
- Sum up
- Summary
- Go over again
- Postgame summary
- News summary
- "SportsCenter" story
- ESPNEWS segment
- Many an ESPN.com clip
- SportsCenter bit
- SportsCenter story
More clues leading to the result SLEAZY
- Run-down
- Like a 40-year-old at an under-21 club
- Immoral
- Cheap
- Sordid
- Underhanded
- Dishonest
- Unsavory
- Disreputable
- Base
More clues leading to the result CREAKY
- Like noisy floorboards
- Thirsty for oil
- Like an old staircase
- Like a dilapidated house
- Run-down
- Dilapidated
- Making a grating sound.
- Apt to make a grating sound.
- Like some floors
- Like some old joints
More clues leading to the result TIRE
- Get bored
- It's a spare for a flat
- Poop out
- Run out of gas
- Trunk item
- Be fed up with
- Wear down
- Wear out
- Fatigue
- Akron export
More clues leading to the result RAMSHACKLE
- Not well-built
- Dilapidated
- Run-down
- Rickety
- Butter becomes shaky
- Tumble-down
- Shoddy and unsturdy
- In bad shape
- Likely to collapse
- Tumbledown
More clues leading to the result BADMOUTH
More clues leading to the result PURSUE
More clues leading to the result DILAPIDATED
More clues leading to the result ITEMIZE
- Put on a list
- List
- Maximize one's return, say
- Go into detail
- List in detail
- Detail one's deductions
- Complete Schedule A
- Fill out a Schedule A
- List.
- Catalogue.
More clues leading to the result SHODDY
- Of inferior workmanship
- Not built to last
- Not built to code, say
- Jerry-built
- Poorly manufactured
- Poor, as workmanship
- Not built very well
- Likely to fall apart
- Cheap
- Inferior
More clues leading to the result GRUNGY
More clues leading to the result SLOPE
- Skiing site
- Stowe feature
- Ski area
- Rise over run
- It may be slippery
- Chairlift's spot
- Ski site
- Incline
- Inclination
- Acclivity
More clues leading to the result SNEERAT
- Be scornful of
- Lord it over
- Make a mockery of
- Be disdainful toward
- Make fun of
- Look down on
- Pooh-pooh
- Don't take seriously
- Look down upon
- Show contempt toward
More clues leading to the result SORDID
- Vile
- Sleazy
- Wretched
- Run-down
- Morally base
- Morally reprehensible
- Like details to be spared
- Base
- Like some pasts
- Foul
More clues leading to the result RAP
- Criminal charge
- Pop music style
- Snoop Doggy Dogg's music
- Certain mod music
- Gangsta __
- Hammer's genre
- Kind of sheet or session
- Knock
- Music genre
- Chat with Hammer
More clues leading to the result DENIGRATE
More clues leading to the result CRUMMY
More clues leading to the result TIRED
More clues leading to the result MAKEFUNOF
More clues leading to the result GETTIRED
More clues leading to the result DEFAME
- Do a hatchet job
- Libel or slander
- Vilify
- Malign
- Discredit
- Slander
- Do some mudslinging
- Accuse falsely
- Sling mud at
- Backbite
More clues leading to the result WEARIED
- Wore out
- Out of gas
- Grew tired
- Wore down
- Worn with exertion.
- Fatigued
- Jaded
- Got bored stiff
- Run down
- Lacking the usual oomph
More clues leading to the result WEARY
- Spent
- Needing a nap
- No rest for them
- Tire
- About ready to drop
- Fatigued
- Worn-down
- Bushed
- Tuckered out
- In need of a nap
More clues leading to the result DECREPIT
- Dilapidated
- Broken-down
- Feeble
- Rickety
- Ramshackle
- Falling apart
- Broken down.
- Lacking pep, vim and vigor.
- Not so spry.
- Run-down