The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MOOR , but the solution may also be STRAP DOWN which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Secure, in a way crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MOOR | 17 % | 4 |
| ENCODE | 11 % | 6 |
| TIGHTEN | 6 % | 7 |
| BATTENDOWN | 6 % | 10 |
| TIEDOWN | 6 % | 7 |
| STRAP DOWN | 6 % | 10 |
| PIN | 6 % | 3 |
| ENCRYPT | 6 % | 7 |
| TIE | 6 % | 3 |
| STOW | 6 % | 4 |
| SEAL | 6 % | 4 |
| RIVET | 6 % | 5 |
| LASH | 6 % | 4 |
| NAIL | 6 % | 4 |
| BELAY | 6 % | 5 |
Why may MOOR be the right solution?
The word "moor" can mean to secure a boat by attaching it to a fixed object such as a pier or dock. Therefore, "secure, in a way" is a fitting clue for the answer "moor".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Secure, in a way
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- insecure
- tight
- access
- advance
- advancing
- affix
- anchor
- anchoring
- appoint
- away
- bag
- bar
Crossword Answer definitions
MOOR noun- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- To cast anchor or become fastened.
- To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
- To secure or fix firmly.
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 MOOR
- Make fast
- Secure a vessel
- Othello, e.g.
- Othello, for one
- Desolate place
- Open wasteland
- Othello, ethnically
- Secure, as a ship
- Anchor
- Tie up at the dock
More clues leading to the result ENCODE
- Make a message secret
- Program a smart card
- Convert to machine language
- Convert into cipher
- Make hard to read
- Make secret
- Put in cipher
- Obfuscate, in a way
- Convert into machine language
- Render hard to read
More clues leading to the result TIGHTEN
- Turn right, maybe
- Wind up
- Use a clamp, say
- Secure, in a way
- Turn to the right, say?
- Make less loose
- Turn a vise handle clockwise
- Constrict
- Turn right, say
- Make more restrictive
More clues leading to the result BATTENDOWN
- With 51-Across, anticipate trouble
- Part of an order during a storm at sea.
- Secure the hatches
- Secure, in a way
More clues leading to the result TIEDOWN
- Secure with straps
- Restrain
- Restrict
- Severely limit
- Confine
- Hamper.
- Restrict.
- Confine.
- Restrict free movement.
- Secure, in a way
More clues leading to the result STRAP DOWN
More clues leading to the result PIN
- 5D need
- Brooch
- Fastener
- Rolling ___
- Split component
- ATM entry
- Bowler's target
- 1" badge, say
- A.T.M. need
- ATM no.
More clues leading to the result ENCRYPT
- Put into code
- Make secret, in a way
- Keep secret, in a way
- Convert to code
- Protect from spies, in a way
- Protect, in a way
- Code
- Protect from theft, in a way
- Make hard to read
- Make secret
More clues leading to the result TIE
- Cause of overtime
- One to one, e.g.
- Overtime cause
- Popular Father's Day gift
- Sudden-death causer
- Usual tic-tac-toe outcome
- 17-17, e.g.
- Affiliation
- All even
- Ascot, essentially
More clues leading to the result STOW
- Pack in a footlocker
- Put away
- __ away (get a free ride)
- Pack away
- Squirrel away
- Store aboard
- Put safely away
- Use the overhead
- Salt away
- Slip in under the deck
More clues leading to the result SEAL
- "Burp" the Tupperware
- Bering Sea swimmer
- Close hermetically
- Marine Land performer
- Shut tightly
- Yeats' country
- Hallmark
- Harp or elephant
- Pod member
- Barker at Sea World
More clues leading to the result RIVET
- Fasten firmly
- Headed bolt
- Focus
- Hold one's attention
- Enrapture
- Transfix
- Fastener for Rosie
- Girder securer
- Metallic binder
- Fastener
More clues leading to the result LASH
- LaRue of the oaters
- Tie up
- Flog
- Punishment unit
- Scathe
- Tongue-__ (scold)
- Famous La Rue
- Follows back and eye
- Whip
- Tie securely
More clues leading to the result NAIL
- Catch
- Filed item
- Hammer's target
- Apprehend
- It's out on a limb
- Item often filed
- Painting holder
- Press-on item
- "For want of a ___, the shoe ...."
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