Answer to "Shut up" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PENT , but the solution may also be CLOISTER which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).

Shut up crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
PENT	23 %	4
CANIT	19 %	5
SEAL	8 %	4
CLAM	6 %	4
STOWIT	5 %	6
ZIPIT	4 %	5
GAG	4 %	3
CAGED	3 %	5
SILENCED	2 %	8
CLOSETED	2 %	8
MEW	1 %	3
SEALED	1 %	6
COOP	1 %	4
PUTALIDONIT	1 %	11
HUSHED	1 %	6
CLAMMED	1 %	7
ENCASE	1 %	6
SILENCE	1 %	7
IMMEW	1 %	5
CANNEDIT	1 %	8
CLOSE	1 %	5
BUTTONIT	1 %	8
BUTTONYOURLIP	1 %	13
BAGIT	1 %	5
HUSH	1 %	4
MEWED	1 %	5
CLOISTER	1 %	8
BEQUIET	1 %	7
STILLED	1 %	7
EMBAR	1 %	5
ZIPYOURLIP	1 %	10
NOTANOTHERWORD	1 %	14
ENCLOSE	1 %	7
PENIN	1 %	5
ENCAGE	1 %	6
HOLDYOURTONGUE	1 %	14

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shut up

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• shut away
• put away
• confined
• pent
• close up
• clam up
• keep mum
• lock up
• lock away
• hush up
• hush
• quieten

Crossword Answer definitions

PENT verb

1. To enclose in a pen.

PENT noun

1. Confinement; concealment.

PENT adjective

1. Confined in a pen, imprisoned.

PENT noun

1. A pentatonic scale.

PENT noun

1. A pentacle or pentagram.

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 PENT

• Shut in
• Cooped (up)
• Cooped up
• Shut up
• Bottled (up)
• Confined
• Closely confined
• Locked (up)
• Boxed in
• Confined, with "up"

More clues leading to the result CANIT

• "STFU!"
• Cease and desist
• "Shut up!"
• "Shut the heck up!"
• "Hush!"
• "Hush up!"
• "Quiet!"
• "Stop that!"
• "Oh, shut up!"
• "Not another word!"

More clues leading to the result SEAL

• "Burp" the Tupperware
• Bering Sea swimmer
• Close hermetically
• Marine Land performer
• Shut tightly
• Yeats' country
• Hallmark
• Harp or elephant
• Pod member
• Barker at Sea World

More clues leading to the result CLAM

• "B.C." currency unit
• Bivalve mollusk
• Close-mouthed one
• Close-mouthed type
• Happy mollusk?
• Seafood item
• Cherrystone, for one
• Chowder ingredient
• Nontalkative one
• Smacker

More clues leading to the result STOWIT

• "Enough already!"
• "Shut up!"
• "Oh, shut up!"
• "That's enough out of you!"
• "Enough said!"
• "Say no more!"
• "I've heard enough from you!"
• "Pipe down!"
• "Zip your lip!"
• "That's enough outta you!"

More clues leading to the result ZIPIT

• "Not another word!"
• "Oh, hush!"
• "Shaddap!"
• "Quiet!"
• "Hush!"
• "Shut yer yapper!"
• "Not another peep out of you!"
• "Not another peep!"
• Slangy "Quiet!"
• "Shh!"

More clues leading to the result GAG

• "__ me with a spoon!"
• April Fools' Day doing
• Choke
• React to a stench, perhaps
• Joke
• React to a tongue depressor
• Prop in 51-Across
• S&M prop
• ---
• Have a tough time swallowing?

More clues leading to the result CAGED

• Locked up
• Restricted
• Like MMA fights
• Behind bars
• Not free to roam
• Like pet birds, often
• Fenced in
• Like some fighters
• Confined, in a way
• Pent up

More clues leading to the result SILENCED

• Suppressed
• Shut up
• Forced to cease firing.
• Repressed.
• Gagged
• Quieted
• Hushed
• Issued a gag order on
• Made noiseless
• Issued a gag order

More clues leading to the result CLOSETED

• Shut in
• Like some skeletons?
• In seclusion.
• Shut up

More clues leading to the result MEW

• Puss murmur
• Cry over spilled milk, perhaps?
• Cry over spilled milk?
• Gull
• Cat sound
• Feline saying
• Sea gull
• Kitten's comment
• Copy cats?
• "Where's the yarn ball?"

More clues leading to the result SEALED

• Behind closed doors?
• Caulked
• Took part in a controversial Newfoundland hunt
• Made airtight
• Secured within
• "My lips are ___"
• Secured against leakage
• "___ With a Kiss" (Brian Hyland hit)
• Not easily opened
• Closed tight

More clues leading to the result COOP

• Roosting place
• Where a rooster roosts
• College house with volunteer labor
• Structure with layers
• Hen pen
• Chicken's home
• It's full of chicken shit
• Pen
• Harvard Square store
• Harvard Square fixture

More clues leading to the result PUTALIDONIT

• "That's enough!"
• "Shut yer yapper!" (and a hint to 17-, 28-, and 47-Across)
• "Pipe down!"
• "Enough already!"
• "Stop talking!"
• "Hush!" to a hatter?
• "Stop complaining!" (and what you might do to the start of 17-, 33- or 41-Across)
• "Hush!" (and hint to how 4-, 9- and 21-Down are formed)
• "Shut your trap!" ... and, graphically, what the circled letters do
• "Shut up!"

More clues leading to the result HUSHED

• Silenced, with "up"
• Suppressed, with "up"
• Quiet
• Suddenly quiet
• Like a crowd in awe
• Quieted
• Like some tones
• Quieted down
• Became quiet
• Shut up

More clues leading to the result CLAMMED

• ___ up (kept mum)
• Dug for quahogs
• Shut (up)
• Went silent (with "up")

More clues leading to the result ENCASE

• Use a container
• Prepare for shipping
• Protect, in a way
• Protect from cracking, as one's phone
• Shut up?
• Cover totally
• Prepare for a museum, perhaps
• Sheathe
• Put in a crate
• Completely surround, in a way

More clues leading to the result SILENCE

• Sign in the library
• Hamlet's last word
• Golden quality
• You can break it merely by mentioning it
• Muffle
• Golden quality?
• Hush
• Shout by the Wizard of Oz
• Sound of one hand clapping?
• "Shh!"

More clues leading to the result IMMEW

• Shut up.

More clues leading to the result CANNEDIT

• Shut up
• Stopped all that yapping

More clues leading to the result CLOSE

• "__, but no cigar!"
• Go under
• Lacking fresh air
• Anybody's game
• "That's the right idea"
• Hard to call
• Seal the deal
• __ shave
• No cigar?
• Needing a recount

More clues leading to the result BUTTONIT

• "Shut up!"
• "Quiet!"

More clues leading to the result BUTTONYOURLIP

• "Hush up!"
• "Don't say another word!"
• "Hush"
• "Don't tell anyone!"
• "Shut up!"
• "Shhh!"

More clues leading to the result BAGIT

• Abandon the task
• Abandon something, informally
• Skip school, in slang
• Give up, informally
• Brown __ (bring lunch)
• Play hooky
• Quit, so to speak
• Give up on a task
• Bring along lunch, slangily
• Quit trying

More clues leading to the result HUSH

• "Quiet!"
• See 1 Across
• With 120 Across, off-the-record
• Kind of puppy or money
• Button your lip
• Librarian's admonition
• Stillness
• Be still
• Mollify
• Kind of money

More clues leading to the result MEWED

• Sounded catty?
• Cried like a kitten
• Sounded like Garfield
• Cried like a kitty
• Made kittenish sounds
• Asked for milk, maybe
• Copied a kitty
• Made cat calls
• Acted kittenish?
• Mimicked a kitten

More clues leading to the result CLOISTER

• Place of seclusion
• Covered walk
• Religious place of seclusion
• Symbol of monastic life
• Monastery
• Abbey.
• Protect and seclude.
• Secluded place
• Seclude
• Covered colonnaded passage

More clues leading to the result BEQUIET

• "I'm trying to work here!"
• "Shut up"
• "Can it!"
• "Hush!"
• Alternate title for this puzzle?
• "Keep it down!"
• "Shh!" (and a hint to the feature shared by the answers to starred clues)
• "Shut up!" ... or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme
• Closing statement?

More clues leading to the result STILLED

• Hushed up
• Hushed
• Calmed
• Shut up
• Silenced.
• Quieted.
• Allayed.
• Calmed.
• Quiet.
• Pacified.

More clues leading to the result EMBAR

• Fasten in
• Throw the bull
• Put in prison
• Imprison, in a way
• Cage in
• Incarcerate
• Stop legally
• Put in a pen, maybe
• Hinder
• Imprison

More clues leading to the result ZIPYOURLIP

• "Hush!" to a clothier?
• *"Shut up!"
• "Not another word!"
• "Quiet!"
• "Shh!"
• "Don't say a word!"
• "Hush!"
• "Stop jabbering!"
• "Shush!"

More clues leading to the result NOTANOTHERWORD

• "Hush!"
• "Sh!"
• "Case closed!"
• Shout from an exhausted spelling bee contestant?
• "Shut up!"
• "Silence!"

More clues leading to the result ENCLOSE

• Fence in
• Wall off
• Stuff into an envelope
• Hem in
• Include in the envelope
• Place in an envelope
• Fence off
• Put in the envelope
• Put inside
• Wrap

More clues leading to the result PENIN

• Corral
• Enclose
• Enclose, as farm animals
• Enclose, as pigs
• Enclose, as livestock
• Secure, on a farm
• Confine
• "He held his ___ trust to Art . . . ": Dobson
• Take ___ hand (write)
• Surround on all sides

More clues leading to the result ENCAGE

• Lock up in a bar room?
• Confine, as a canary
• Coop up
• Place behind bars
• Keep, as a pet bird
• Put behind bars
• Imprison
• Confine
• Coop up in a coop
• Keep in a coop

More clues leading to the result HOLDYOURTONGUE

• "Hush!"
• "Don't say a word!"
• "Not another word!"
• "Keep quiet!"
• "Be quiet, butcher!"
• "Shh!"
• Shout to a talkative butcher?
• "Shut up!"