Answer to "Scottish poet" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BURNS which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 1995.

Scottish poet crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BURNS	33 %	5
HOGG	22 %	4
SCOTT	11 %	5
MUIR	11 %	4
DUNBAR	11 %	6
MOIR	11 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Scottish poet

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

• burns
• hogg
• scott
• dunbar
• ramsay
• thomson
• lang
• muir
• campbell
• douglas
• crichton
• edwin

Crossword Answer definitions

BURNS noun

1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
2. A sensation resembling such an injury.
3. The act of burning something with fire.
4. An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
7. Tobacco.
8. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
9. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
10. A disease in vegetables; brand.

BURNS verb

1. To cause to be consumed by fire.
2. To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
3. To overheat so as to make unusable.
4. To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
5. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
6. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
7. To cauterize.
8. To sunburn.
9. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
10. To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
11. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
12. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
13. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
14. To betray.
15. To insult or defeat.
16. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
17. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
18. To accidentally touch a moving stone.
19. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
20. To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
21. (of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
22. To discard.
23. To shoot someone with a firearm.

BURNS noun

1. A stream.

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 BURNS

• Author of "Tam o' Shanter"
• Cooks way too long
• Seethes
• Scalds
• Allen's straight man
• Buries, like a blackjack card
• "Tam O'Shanter" poet
• George with a cigar
• Sizzles
• "I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age" speaker

More clues leading to the result HOGG

• "Dukes of Hazzard" boss
• Foe of the Duke boys
• "The Queen's Wake" poet
• Boss of "The Dukes of Hazzard"
• "The Dukes of Hazzard" boss whose name sounds like a big pig
• "The Dukes of Hazzard" bad guy Boss ___
• Shelley biographer Thomas ___
• Boss on "The Dukes of Hazzard"
• Hazzard County boss
• "Dukes of Hazzard" villain

More clues leading to the result SCOTT

• Coretta __ King
• Anthem composer's middle name
• Astronaut Carpenter
• Dred or Willard
• Figure skating champion, Hamilton
• Quentin Durward author
• "Ivanhoe" author
• Polar explorer
• 1852 loser to Pierce
• Patton portrayer who declined the Oscar

More clues leading to the result MUIR

• "The Ghost and Mrs. __"
• "The Ghost and Mrs. ___"
• American naturalist
• Naturalist John and his Woods
• Sierra Club founder John
• Pioneering conservationist
• California's ___ Woods
• Sierra Club co-founder
• "Father of the National Parks"
• John who was an early advocate of wilderness preservvation

More clues leading to the result DUNBAR

• Big name in armored vehicles
• Firth of Forth town
• John ___ ("Dances With Wolves" protagonist)
• East Lothian castle site
• Firth of Forth port.
• Scottish poet
• Scene of an Oliver Cromwell triumph
• "The Sport of the Gods" author
• Costner role in "Dances With Wolves"
• Poet Paul Laurence ___

More clues leading to the result MOIR

• Scottish poet.
• Scottish author.