The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HOVEL , but the solution may also be LEAN-TO which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Shanty crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HOVEL | 37 % | 5 |
| LEANTO | 27 % | 6 |
| HUT | 23 % | 3 |
| DUMP | 3 % | 4 |
| LEAN-TO | 3 % | 7 |
| SHACK | 3 % | 5 |
| CABIN | 3 % | 5 |
Why may LEAN-TO be the right solution?
The answer "LEAN-TO" fits the clue "Shanty" because a lean-to is a simple shelter that typically has one sloping side leaning against a building or tree, often used as a temporary or makeshift dwelling.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shanty
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shack
- hut
- hutch
- hovel
- chanty
- chantey
- sea chantey
- slum
- dump
- primitive
- dilapidated
- rudimentary
Crossword Answer definitions
HOVEL noun- An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
- A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
- In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
- To put in a hovel; to shelter.
- To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
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 HOVEL
- Dumpy digs
- Shanty
- What a dump
- Dump of a home
- Ramshackle dwelling
- Crude dwelling
- Miserable dwelling
- Miserable abode
- Digs that no one digs?
- Bad housing
More clues leading to the result LEANTO
- Having a single slope
- Simple shelter
- Ramshackle shelter
- Shack
- Rough shelter
- Humble shelter
- Shed
- Humble home
- Minimalist shelter
- Makeshift shelter
More clues leading to the result HUT
- Crude quarters
- Pizza __
- Quarterback's syllable
- Small cabin
- Crude shelter
- Humble abode
- Shanty
- "Combination Pizza ___ & Taco Bell" (Das Racist single)
- "Give me the ball"
- "Lost" home
More clues leading to the result DUMP
- Jettison
- With 77-Across's third word, what this recipe makes
- Get rid of
- Leave in the lurch
- Deep-six
- Hit with a Dear John letter
- Oust without ceremony
- Dilapidated place
- Junkyard
- Landfill
More clues leading to the result LEAN-TO
More clues leading to the result SHACK
- Rude shelter
- Dilapidated dwelling
- Crude cabin
- Simple shelter
- Crude home
- Unsturdy structure
- Crude dwelling
- Seedy-looking structure
- Hooverville home
- Creaky quarters^SHAC