The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CANS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Sends packing crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CANS | 31 % | 4 |
| OUSTS | 31 % | 5 |
| AXES | 12 % | 4 |
| SHOOS | 8 % | 5 |
| FIRES | 8 % | 5 |
| BOOTS | 4 % | 5 |
| ROUTS | 4 % | 5 |
| EJECTS | 4 % | 6 |
Why may CANS be the right solution?
"CANS" can mean to dismiss or fire someone, which is synonymous with "sends packing."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sends packing
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- send back
- send away
- good riddance
- riddance
- disconnecting
- shove off
- leaving
- departs
- going away
- bye bye
- despatching
- terminating
Crossword Answer definitions
CANS noun- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
- Buttocks.
- Jail or prison.
- (in the plural) Headphones.
- A drinking cup.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- (in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- To seal in a can.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To shut up.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To hole the ball.
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 CANS
- Puts up?
- Some recyclables
- Preserves
- Recyclables
- Blocks someone from their trade?
- Ends of a certain homemade phone
- Food drive offerings
- Fires
- Supermarket stack
- Bomb shelter items
More clues leading to the result OUSTS
- Boots
- Kicks out
- Shows the door to
- Forces to leave
- Banishes
- Sends packing
- Gives the boot to
- Unseats
- Gives the boot
- Deposes
More clues leading to the result AXES
- Chops off
- Fires
- Shows to the door
- Terminates
- X, Y, and Z
- Fellers
- Graph lines
- Fire department tools
- Lines in geometry class
- Props in some "The Wizard of Oz" costumes
More clues leading to the result SHOOS
- Fends off
- Sends on its way
- Brushes away
- Evicts, in a way
- Sends packing
- Chases away
- Drives off
- Drives away
- Waves away
- Chases (away)
More clues leading to the result FIRES
- Cans or sacks
- Gets done aiming?
- Lets go
- Gives the ax
- Asks questions, with "away"
- Pink-slips
- Forest rangers' worries
- Camp sights
- Discharges
- Kindles
More clues leading to the result BOOTS
- These Are Made For Walkin'
- 1903 Kipling poem
- Starts up, as a PC
- Starts up the PC
- Wellies, e.g.
- Sax legend Randolph
- Starts up, as a program
- Gets a kick out of?
- "Yakety Sax" player Randolph
- Mukluks
More clues leading to the result ROUTS
- Defeats in battle
- Drives away
- Thumpings
- Ballgame blowouts
- Easy hockey wins
- Lopsided wins
- Lopsided victories
- Defeats decisively
- Pummels on the field
- Clobbers