The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word NUT , but the solution may also be KOOK which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in LA Times).
Screwball crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NUT | 25 % | 3 |
| LOON | 11 % | 4 |
| WACKO | 9 % | 5 |
| KOOK | 8 % | 4 |
| ZANY | 8 % | 4 |
| FLAKE | 8 % | 5 |
| NUTCASE | 7 % | 7 |
| WACKY | 7 % | 5 |
| NUTTY | 3 % | 5 |
| KOOKY | 3 % | 5 |
| SENSELESS | 3 % | 9 |
| OFFTHEWALL | 3 % | 10 |
| INANE | 1 % | 5 |
| CRAZY | 1 % | 5 |
| WILDANDCRAZYGUY | 1 % | 15 |
| QUEERFISH | 1 % | 9 |
| HEADCASE | 1 % | 8 |
| WACK | 1 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Screwball
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- crazy
- softheaded
- half-baked
- crank
- crackpot
- nutcase
- impractical
- fruitcake
- nut
- officer
- flake
- madman
Crossword Answer definitions
NUT noun- A hard-shelled seed.
- A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
- A crazy person.
- The head.
- Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- An extravagantly fashionable young man.
- (chiefly plural) A testicle.
- Semen, ejaculate.
- Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen
- An extreme enthusiast.
- A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts.
- The tumbler of a gunlock.
- A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
- To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- (mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
- No.
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 NUT
- Bread or butter ender
- Cashew
- Off-the-wall guy
- Screwball
- Brazil or pecan
- Chest or dough finisher
- Hazel, for one
- Flake
- Litchi or flake
- Macadamia, for one
More clues leading to the result LOON
- Diving bird
- Guard of the Nibelung treasure
- Minnesota state bird
- Golden Pond bird
- Crazy fowl
- "Crazy" bird
- Complete nut
- Fish-eating bird
- Web-footed bird
- Canadian coin bird
More clues leading to the result WACKO
More clues leading to the result KOOK
More clues leading to the result ZANY
- Adjective for the Marx Brothers
- Comically loony
- Laff-a-minute
- Madcap
- Wild and crazy
- Like the Marx brothers
- Wild and crazy guy
- Clownish
- Off-the-wall
- Kooky
More clues leading to the result FLAKE
- Oddball
- Corn or nut
- Cereal unit
- Totally forget you were supposed to be somewhere for the thing
- Cereal box remnant
- Snow fall?
- Snow fall
- Snow unit
- Bit of a blizzard
- Kook
More clues leading to the result NUTCASE
- Screwball
- Crazy person
- One with a screw loose
- Eccentric
- Colorful helmet brand
- Wackaloon
- Loony
- Weirdo
- Cuckoo
- Loon
More clues leading to the result WACKY
- Cockamamy
- "___ Packages" (see 17-, 38-, and 60-Across, and 11- and 28-Down)
- Nuts
- Amusingly eccentric
- Nutso
- Nonsensical
- Screwball
- Zany
- Off-the-wall
- Odd
More clues leading to the result NUTTY
- Cuckoo
- Kooky
- Off one's rocker
- Eccentric
- Bonkers
- Wacky
- Daft
- Screwball
- Like Jerry Lewis's professor
- "The __ Professor"
More clues leading to the result KOOKY
More clues leading to the result SENSELESS
More clues leading to the result OFFTHEWALL
- Bizarre
- Crazy
- Screwball
- Bizarre, and what 17-, 22-, 36/37/38- and 47-Across can be, in one way or another
- Wild and crazy
- Outlandish
- Pretty zany
- BANANAS
- Jump
- Surprising, for a bricklayer?
More clues leading to the result INANE
More clues leading to the result CRAZY
- Bats
- Off one's rocker
- Bananas
- Patsy Cline classic
- Nelson-penned Cline hit
- Mad
- Bonkers
- Patsy Cline hit
- Ready for the rubber room
- Wild (about)