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 |
| BOOB | 7 % | 4 |
| GOOSE | 7 % | 5 |
| DOLT | 7 % | 4 |
| OAF | 7 % | 3 |
| NODDY | 5 % | 5 |
| IDIOT | 5 % | 5 |
| LOON | 5 % | 4 |
| FOOL | 5 % | 4 |
| MORON | 4 % | 5 |
| DOPE | 4 % | 4 |
| GAWP | 2 % | 4 |
| KNUCKLEHEAD | 1 % | 11 |
| MUTT | 1 % | 4 |
| COOT | 1 % | 4 |
| NITWIT | 1 % | 6 |
| NOODLE | 1 % | 6 |
| CLOD | 1 % | 4 |
| DODO | 1 % | 4 |
| FLATHEAD | 1 % | 8 |
| DUNCE | 1 % | 5 |
| NOODLEHEAD | 1 % | 10 |
| RUBE | 1 % | 4 |
| SOT | 1 % | 3 |
| NINCOMPOOP | 1 % | 10 |
| DULLARD | 1 % | 7 |
| ZANY | 1 % | 4 |
| SAP | 1 % | 3 |
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 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 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 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 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 DOPE
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 KNUCKLEHEAD
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 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
More clues leading to the result NITWIT
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 DODO
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 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 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 NINCOMPOOP
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 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