The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NINNY , but the solution may also be DUNCE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Simpleton crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NINNY | 17 % | 5 |
| ASS | 9 % | 3 |
| DOLT | 7 % | 4 |
| OAF | 7 % | 3 |
| BOOB | 7 % | 4 |
| GOOSE | 7 % | 5 |
| NODDY | 5 % | 5 |
| IDIOT | 5 % | 5 |
| LOON | 5 % | 4 |
| FOOL | 5 % | 4 |
| DOPE | 4 % | 4 |
| MORON | 4 % | 5 |
| GAWP | 2 % | 4 |
| NOODLE | 1 % | 6 |
| CLOD | 1 % | 4 |
| FLATHEAD | 1 % | 8 |
| DUNCE | 1 % | 5 |
| DODO | 1 % | 4 |
| NOODLEHEAD | 1 % | 10 |
| RUBE | 1 % | 4 |
| NINCOMPOOP | 1 % | 10 |
| SOT | 1 % | 3 |
| ZANY | 1 % | 4 |
| DULLARD | 1 % | 7 |
| SAP | 1 % | 3 |
| MUTT | 1 % | 4 |
| KNUCKLEHEAD | 1 % | 11 |
| COOT | 1 % | 4 |
| NITWIT | 1 % | 6 |
Why may IDIOT be the right solution?
The answer "IDIOT" fits the clue "Simpleton" because an idiot is commonly understood to be a person lacking intelligence or common sense.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Simpleton
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- simple
- fool
- moron
- boob
- zany
- goose
- dullard
- ignoramus
- dunderhead
- dolt
- dimwit
- doltish
Crossword Answer definitions
NINNY noun- A silly or foolish person.
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 NINNY
More clues leading to the result ASS
- Balaam's beast
- Balaam's mount
- Beast of burden
- Burdened beast
- Donkey
- Mule's father
- Dolt
- Stubborn one
- Stupid one
- Total idiot
More clues leading to the result DOLT
More clues leading to the result OAF
- Clod
- Lout
- No genius
- Bull in a china shop, maybe
- Bumpkin
- Galoot
- Crude dude
- Unlikely ballet dancer
- Muttonhead
- Stumblebum
More clues leading to the result BOOB
- Dunce
- Ninny
- Numbskull
- Awkward one
- Knocker
- Nursing need
- Side-___ (something that's apparently highly newsworthy to the Huffington Post)
- Side-___ (sight with a loose-fitting top)
- Dumb cluck
- Tube devotee?
More clues leading to the result GOOSE
- Honker
- When you're in trouble, it's cooked
- Pinch
- Bay off Labrador
- Zero, with 101 Down
- Down provider
- Quill supplier
- Skein member
- Foie gras source
- Golden-egg layer
More clues leading to the result NODDY
- Simpleton
- Tropical tern
- Featherbrain.
- Tame sea bird.
- Tame tropical sea bird.
- Sooty tern
- Dolt or tern
- Bird that's so tame it may seem stupid
- Holder of Slade
More clues leading to the result IDIOT
- Dostoyevsky's "The __"
- Dunderhead
- __ savant
- __-proof (easy to operate)
- Bonehead
- Lamebrain
- Mooncalf
- Nincompoop
- Doofus
- Shit-for-brains
More clues leading to the result LOON
- Diving bird
- Guard of the Nibelung treasure
- Minnesota state bird
- Golden Pond bird
- Crazy fowl
- "Crazy" bird
- Complete nut
- Fish-eating bird
- Web-footed bird
- Canadian coin bird
More clues leading to the result FOOL
- Creamy dessert
- Blockhead
- April 1 victim
- "He who hesitates," per Mae West
- Idiot
- Meatball
- One who sits on a whoopee cushion
- Start of an eight-word stepquote
- Hoodwink
- Pull a prank on
More clues leading to the result DOPE
More clues leading to the result MORON
- Dumbbell
- Empty head
- Rear view? (or ... dummy)
- Asshat
- Jerk
- Word coined by psychologist H.H. Goddard in 1910
- Egghead's opposite
- Butt of many a joke
- Dim bulb
- Imbecile
More clues leading to the result GAWP
- Stare open-mouthed, to a Brit
- Act the slack-jawed yokel
- Goggle
- Stare with an open mouth
- Stare open-mouthed
- Stare
- Dropped-jaw stare
- Stare with wonder.
- Stare: Dial.
- Simpleton
More clues leading to the result NOODLE
- Improvise on the piano
- Soup letter
- Asian salad ingredient
- Piece of pasta
- The old bean
- Bean
- Head, slangily
- Saimin or wonton feature
- Alphabet soup "letter"
- Improvise on the ivories
More clues leading to the result CLOD
More clues leading to the result FLATHEAD
More clues leading to the result DUNCE
- <:`-(
- Dolt
- Brainiac's opposite
- Dork
- Numskull
- Conical-cap wearer
- Kind of cap
- Nincompoop
- Corner chair occupant
- One who may be capped in a corner
More clues leading to the result DODO
More clues leading to the result NOODLEHEAD
More clues leading to the result RUBE
- Cartoonist Goldberg
- Unsophisticated country fellow
- Bumpkin
- One who's hardly an urbanite
- Country hick
- Sticks figure
- Country cousin
- Con artist's pushover
- Bumkin
- Yahoo
More clues leading to the result NINCOMPOOP
More clues leading to the result SOT
- He's in his cups
- Tippler
- Lush
- Mayberry's Otis, e.g.
- Pink-elephant sighter
- Rummy
- Barfly
- Boozer
- Drunkard
- One with bottled-up feelings?
More clues leading to the result ZANY
- Adjective for the Marx Brothers
- Comically loony
- Laff-a-minute
- Madcap
- Wild and crazy
- Like the Marx brothers
- Wild and crazy guy
- Clownish
- Off-the-wall
- Kooky
More clues leading to the result DULLARD
- Blockhead
- Dolt
- Dim-witted one
- Simpleton
- Simple Simon.
- Obtuse one.
- Nonmember of the brain trust.
- Unclever one.
- Stupid one
- Stupid person
More clues leading to the result SAP
More clues leading to the result MUTT
- Paperless pup
- Jeff met him in 1908
- Jeff's tall pal
- Jeffs partner
- Half-and-half pet
- Pup with no family
- Jeff's friend
- Mangy sort
- Common canine
- Pound inmate
More clues leading to the result KNUCKLEHEAD
More clues leading to the result COOT
- Crotchety one
- Scoter
- Geezer
- Marsh hen
- Swimming bird to which weird old people might be compared
- Curmudgeon
- Foolish old man
- Diving bird
- Aquatic avian
- Eccentric oldster