The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ESCAPED , but the solution may also be ELAPSED which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Slipped away crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ESCAPED | 33 % | 7 |
| ELAPSED | 25 % | 7 |
| ELOPED | 17 % | 6 |
| GONEBY | 8 % | 6 |
| EBBED | 8 % | 5 |
| EVADED | 8 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slipped away
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slip away
- disappeared
- vanished
- disappearing
- disappears
- disappearance
- disappear
- vanishes
- vanishing
- slip out
- slipping
- fade away
Crossword Answer definitions
ESCAPED verb- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
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 ESCAPED
More clues leading to the result ELAPSED
More clues leading to the result ELOPED
- Ran away
- Wed in haste
- Dispensed with the nuptials
- Ran off to hitch
- Became running mates?
- Forwent consent, maybe
- Married on the sly
- Split to unite
- Fled and wed
- Fled to wed
More clues leading to the result GONEBY
More clues leading to the result EBBED
- Dropped off
- Dwindled
- Declined
- Wanned
- Underwent recession
- Fell off
- Receded
- Went out
- Let up
- Backed away from the shore