The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MOLT , but the solution may also be LOSE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Shed crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MOLT | 47 % | 4 |
| LEANTO | 18 % | 6 |
| LOSE | 6 % | 4 |
| HUT | 4 % | 3 |
| EMIT | 3 % | 4 |
| MOLTED | 2 % | 6 |
| HOVEL | 2 % | 5 |
| RID | 2 % | 3 |
| HANGAR | 2 % | 6 |
| REMOVED | 2 % | 7 |
| REMOVE | 2 % | 6 |
| MOULT | 1 % | 5 |
| REPEL | 1 % | 5 |
| SPILL | 1 % | 5 |
| EMITTED | 1 % | 7 |
| DOFFED | 1 % | 6 |
| CAST | 1 % | 4 |
| SLOUGHED | 1 % | 8 |
| PEEL | 1 % | 4 |
| CASTOFF | 1 % | 7 |
| EXUVIATE | 1 % | 8 |
| DIVEST | 1 % | 6 |
| TURNINGPOINT | 1 % | 12 |
| COTE | 1 % | 4 |
Why may LOSE be the right solution?
The word "shed" can mean to lose something, like weight or tears. Therefore, "LOSE" is the right answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shed
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- drop
- throw
- cast off
- cast
- spill
- molt
- moult
- disgorge
- throw away
- slough
- caducous
- exuviate
Crossword Answer definitions
MOLT noun- The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
- The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
- To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
- To shed in such a manner.
- To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- To be discouraged.
- To be emotionally softened or touched.
- To be very hot and sweat profusely.
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 MOLT
- Shed skin
- Shed
- Shed a coat
- Process of shedding skin or feathers
- Drop down?
- Shed one's skin
- Shed, as feathers
- Lose feathers
- Drop feathers
- Shed feathers
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 LOSE
- Get trounced
- Mislay
- Place or show
- Take it on the chin
- Come in second
- Finish last
- Finish second
- Give the slip to
- Misplace
- Come in last
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 EMIT
More clues leading to the result MOLTED
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 RID
More clues leading to the result HANGAR
- High-roofed building
- Shelter for an airplane
- Boeing building
- Plane's home
- Plane place
- Plane site
- Shed
- Airport shed
- Cessna home
- Aircraft shed
More clues leading to the result REMOVED
- Made the victim of a coup, maybe
- Withdrew
- Took out
- Shed
- Transferred.
- Took off.
- Separated.
- Taken away
- Took away
- Distant
More clues leading to the result REMOVE
More clues leading to the result MOULT
- Shed feathers, in Sheffield
- Shed: Brit. sp.
- Shed.
- Shed feathers: Var.
- Shed to a Brit
- Lose feathers, in London
- Drop down, in London?
More clues leading to the result REPEL
More clues leading to the result SPILL
- Oil mishap
- Exxon Valdez calamity
- Brim over
- Knock over
- Upset
- Dinnertime boo-boo
- Mess hall mess
- Overflow
- Exxon Valdez mishap
- Reason to use a paper towel
More clues leading to the result EMITTED
- Gave off
- Gave out
- Radiated
- Gave forth
- Let out
- Sent out
- Issued
- Let out.
- Issued, as paper money.
- Put into circulation.
More clues leading to the result DOFFED
- Tipped, as a hat
- Removed, as a hat
- Removed
- Tipped
- Took off
- Flipped one's lid?
- Put aside.
- Removed, as a hat.
- Took off.
- Took off a tile
More clues leading to the result CAST
- Threw or throw
- Fisherman's move
- Group of "thousands"
- List of actors
- Plaster bandage
- Broken bone protector
- Hurl
- Limb support
- Pitched
- Play list
More clues leading to the result SLOUGHED
More clues leading to the result PEEL
- Avenger Emma
- Fruit cover
- Lime cover
- __-and-stick labels
- Remove the skin
- Come unglued
- Orange jacket
- Rind
- Banana discard
- Cause of a slip, maybe
More clues leading to the result CASTOFF
- Discard
- Throw away
- Discarded
- Discarded one.
- Abandoned.
- Loosed from a mooring.
- Knitting term.
- Reject
- Hand-me-down
- Thrown away
More clues leading to the result EXUVIATE
More clues leading to the result DIVEST
- Sell off
- Dispossess
- Rid
- Sell off, as stocks
- Strip, as of rights
- Rid (of)
- Get rid (of)
- Strip.
- Deprive.
- Dispossess.