The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EDGE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Slight advantage crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EDGE | 92 % | 4 |
| TOEHOLD | 5 % | 7 |
| COMPETITIVEEDGE | 2 % | 15 |
| LEGUP | 2 % | 5 |
Why may EDGE be the right solution?
The word "edge" is the right solution because it refers to a slight advantage or superiority over someone or something. It can be used to describe a small lead or an upper hand in a competition or situation.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slight advantage
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- edge
- upper hand
- leg up
- lifter
- hoist
- haul
- hoisting
- hist
- inundated
- jump
- get behind
- troll
Crossword Answer definitions
EDGE noun- The boundary line of a surface.
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
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 EDGE
- "The ___ of Night"
- "The ____ Of Night"
- "The ____ of Night" (TV soap)
- Advantage
- Boundary line
- Brink
- Creep
- Favorable advantage
- Keenness
- Word in a Maugham title
More clues leading to the result TOEHOLD
- Merest grip
- Rock climber's need
- Slight or initial advantage
- Initial advantage
- Climber's advantage
- *Climber's support
- Wrestling grip.
- Slight footing.
- Insecure grip.
- Slight advantage.