The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TAIL which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Shadow crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAIL | 60 % | 4 |
| UMBRA | 23 % | 5 |
| TRAIL | 8 % | 5 |
| BRINGUPTHEREAR | 2 % | 14 |
| FOLLOWTHELEADER | 2 % | 15 |
| COMEFROMBEHIND | 2 % | 14 |
| PENUMBRA | 1 % | 8 |
| STALK | 1 % | 5 |
| HITSONGFORCATSTEVENS | 1 % | 20 |
| VESTIGE | 1 % | 7 |
Why may TAIL be the right solution?
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shadow
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- trace
- apparition
- phantom
- vestige
- overshadow
- dwarf
- shade
- dark
- darkness
- tail
- shade off
- silhouette
Crossword Answer definitions
TAIL noun- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- The buttocks or backside.
- The penis of a person or animal.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- A tailing.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- A tailcoat.
- To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
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 TAIL
- Follow
- Kite need
- Comet dust
- Garfield's wagger
- Manx cat's lack
- Scut
- Something to pin on a donkey?
- Appendage
- It's pinned on a donkey
- School on the Thames
More clues leading to the result UMBRA
- Eclipse shadow
- A parasol provides it
- Place to see a total eclipse
- Darkest region of a sunspot
- Eclipse-viewing spot
- Shadow
- Astronomical shadow
- Shaded area
- Shadowy apparition
- Dark area
More clues leading to the result TRAIL
- Way into the woods
- Mark of the comics
- Be behind
- Bridle path
- Path
- Path where you might eat gorp
- Visible footsteps
- Sleuth's path
- Bring up the rear
- Appalachian, e.g.
More clues leading to the result BRINGUPTHEREAR
More clues leading to the result FOLLOWTHELEADER
- Game with apes
- Cousin of Simon says
- Simon Says relative, and a hint to what happens after the starts of 16-, 22-, 36- and 50-Across
- Kids' game
- Child's game
- Youngsters' popular game.
- Childhood game.
- Game played in this puzzle?
- How to find what a creep is looking at?
- Shadow
More clues leading to the result COMEFROMBEHIND
More clues leading to the result PENUMBRA
More clues leading to the result STALK
- Asparagus spear
- Celery portion
- Plant support
- Plant stem
- Ear's support
- Pursue quarry
- Pursue furtively
- Peduncle
- Pursue, as quarry
- Piece of rhubarb