The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TVAD , but the solution may also be HIATUS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Show stopper crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TVAD | 14 % | 4 |
| FINALE | 14 % | 6 |
| COMMERCIALBREAK | 10 % | 15 |
| PAN | 10 % | 3 |
| VCHIP | 7 % | 5 |
| HECKLING | 3 % | 8 |
| STANDINGO | 3 % | 9 |
| DAZZLER | 3 % | 7 |
| ACTORSSTRIKE | 3 % | 12 |
| REMOTECTROL | 3 % | 11 |
| TVREMOTE | 3 % | 8 |
| HIATUS | 3 % | 6 |
| REMOTE | 3 % | 6 |
| TIVO | 3 % | 4 |
| STANDINGOVATION | 3 % | 15 |
| COMMERCIAL | 3 % | 10 |
| ADBREAK | 3 % | 7 |
| NEWSFLASH | 3 % | 9 |
Why may HIATUS be the right solution?
The term "show stopper" can refer to a pause or interruption in a performance, which is exactly what a hiatus is - a break or interruption in something.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Show stopper
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- show-stopper
- shot-stopper
- stop-over
- back-stop
- puppet-show
- disruptor
- fire stop
- fire-stop
- stage door
- shut-off
- interruptor
- stopword
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 TVAD
- Showstopper
- Plug in a man cave
- Show stopper
- Spot on the air?
- Super Bowl highlight
- Super Bowl highlight, for some
- Message from a sponsor
- Spot on the tube
- Words from the sponsor
- Spot on your screen
More clues leading to the result FINALE
- Concluding part
- Grand ending
- It can be grand
- Much-hated episode of "How I Met Your Mother"
- Last stage
- Show stopper?
- Culminating song
- Last hurrah
- Conclusion
- Last sonata movement
More clues leading to the result COMMERCIALBREAK
- Sitcom interruption
- Words from the sponsor
- Show stopper
- TV movie interruption ... or feature of 16-, 21-, 31-, 43- and 49-Across?
- Series of ads on TV or radio
- It has spots
- Show stopper?
- Show stopper, often
More clues leading to the result PAN
- Give one star to
- God often pictured with pipes
- Forty-niners tool
- Move while filming
- Play critic
- Scathing review
- Rotate the camera
- Omelet-maker's need, unless you boil your omelets or cook them in the toaster I suppose
- Critically disdain
- Muffin tin, e.g.
More clues leading to the result VCHIP
- Thing blocking the TV?
- Blue blocker?
- TV monitor?
- TV-program blocker
- Electronic censor
- TV screener?
- TV monitoring device of 1996 news
- TV monitor of sorts
- Blocker of offensive TV material
- Screening device
More clues leading to the result HECKLING
More clues leading to the result STANDINGO
- Show stopper?
- Informal show of approval
- Encore evoker, briefly
- Rousing audience response, briefly
- *Bravura performance reaction, briefly
- Sign of approval, familiarly
- Rousing applause, familiarly
- Star performer's reward
- Informal show of approval?
- Reward for knocking 'em dead
More clues leading to the result DAZZLER
- Bobby ___ (outstanding person, in British slang)
- A very bright light.
- Show-stopper
- Showstopper
- Spectacular event
More clues leading to the result ACTORSSTRIKE
More clues leading to the result REMOTECTROL
More clues leading to the result TVREMOTE
More clues leading to the result HIATUS
- Break
- Time out
- Break in the action
- Interruption
- Respite from business as usual
- Gap
- Short break in activity
- Off time
- Continuity interruption
- Continuity break
More clues leading to the result REMOTE
- Out-of-the-way
- Couch potato's zapper
- Roku controller
- Universal ___
- Commercial zapper
- Hard to get to
- Essential device for a couch potato
- Distant
- Couch potato's device
- Show stopper?
More clues leading to the result TIVO
- Device that may be thwarted by shows running long
- Modern recording device
- Couch potato's gadget
- Digitally record
- Modern recorder
- Show-saving box
- VCR successor
- DVR system
- Late show broadcaster?
- It might catch a show
More clues leading to the result STANDINGOVATION
- Show stopper?
- Enthusiastic reception
- Enthusiastic response
- It often precedes an encore
- Great reception
- Encore preceder, often
- Performer's pleasure
- Performer's thrill
- High accolade
- Certain accolade