The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MESS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2019.
Shambles crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MESS | 76 % | 4 |
| CHAOS | 6 % | 5 |
| RUIN | 6 % | 4 |
| DISARRAY | 6 % | 8 |
| WRECK | 3 % | 5 |
| CARNAGE | 3 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shambles
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slaughterhouse
- butchery
- abattoir
- havoc
- ravages
- tatters
- carnage
- disarray
- mayhem
- mess
- turmoil
- chaos
Crossword Answer definitions
MESS noun- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.
- A large quantity or number.
- Excrement.
- A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- To interfere.
- (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
- Mass; a church service.
- A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
- A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- To take meals with a mess.
- To belong to a mess.
- To eat (with others).
- To supply with a mess.
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 MESS
- Boot-camp fare
- Interfere
- Military meal
- Not a pretty sight
- Quantico cuisine
- Recruit's dinner
- Shambles
- Teen's room, often
- Army chow
- Predicament
More clues leading to the result CHAOS
- Jumble
- Bedlam
- Shambles
- Utter confusion
- Pandemonium
- Entropy
- ___ theory
- Whence sprang order
- Ferment
- Madhouse milieu
More clues leading to the result RUIN
- Destroy
- Destroyed building
- Downfall
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- The road to __
- Destruction
- Completely botch
- Spoil
- Bankrupt
- Excavation site
More clues leading to the result DISARRAY
More clues leading to the result WRECK
- Bucket o' bolts
- Reef-ravaged ship
- Seafloor sitter
- Nautical treasure hunter's find
- Sunken ship
- Demolish
- Jalopy
- Destroy
- Tow truck's haul
- Traffic tie-up cause