The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DEBAR which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Shut out crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DEBAR | 41 % | 5 |
| BAN | 14 % | 3 |
| BAR | 10 % | 3 |
| SKUNK | 10 % | 5 |
| PRECLUDE | 9 % | 8 |
| EVICT | 3 % | 5 |
| BLANK | 3 % | 5 |
| EXCLUDE | 3 % | 7 |
| DEBARRED | 3 % | 8 |
| FROZE | 1 % | 5 |
| SKUNKED | 1 % | 7 |
| RUNLESS | 1 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shut out
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shut
- exclude
- keep out
- shutout
- block out
- shut off
- shutting
- shut down
- exclusion
- close off
- shut in
- shuts
Crossword Answer definitions
DEBAR verb- To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- To hinder or prevent.
- To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
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 DEBAR
More clues leading to the result BAN
- Prohibit
- Prohibition
- Forbid
- Outlaw
- Proscribe
- Taboo
- Big soda ___ (failed Bloombergian initiative)
- -
- Disallow
- Uncompromising law
More clues leading to the result BAR
- Kind of code
- Milky Way unit
- Prevent
- Refuse admission to
- Serving counter
- Soap unit
- Word in many ranch names
- Word with roll or salad
- Close off
- Exclude
More clues leading to the result SKUNK
- Defeat overwhelmingly
- Flower in a children's story, e.g.
- Hold scoreless
- Keep scoreless
- No-goodnik
- Pepe Le Pew, for one
- Striped stinker
- Despicable slimeball
- Prevent from scoring
- Stinker
More clues leading to the result PRECLUDE
- Make impossible
- Rule out in advance
- Shut out
- Make impossible.
- Shut out.
- Prevent.
- Head off
- Render impossible
- Prevent from happening
More clues leading to the result EVICT
- Force out
- Shut out
- Boot out
- Kick out
- Show the door
- Throw out into the street
- Send packing
- Drop a letter?
- Kick out of a flat
- Give the boot to
More clues leading to the result BLANK
- Like a zero-point Scrabble tile
- Bulletless cartridge
- Beat 8-0, say
- Versatile tile, in a game
- Expressionless
- Not yet written on
- Valuable valueless game tile
- Line on which to sign
- Like some slates
- Word after entry or point
More clues leading to the result EXCLUDE
More clues leading to the result DEBARRED
More clues leading to the result FROZE
- Lost it before the audience
- Made like a statue
- Immobilized
- Iced up
- Stopped in one's tracks
- Suffered from the cold
- Stood still
- Stopped suddenly
- Succumbed to stage fright
- Became immobilized
More clues leading to the result SKUNKED
- Soundly defeated
- Won by a shutout, slangily
- In the end, the score was 21-0. I got __!
- Shut out
- Kept from scoring any points