Answer to "Slowdown" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word LAG , but the solution may also be LETUP which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in CrossSynergy).

Slowdown crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
LAG	38 %	3
LETUP	38 %	5
TIEUP	13 %	5
SNAG	13 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slowdown

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

• lag
• retardation
• decelerate
• decel
• deceleration
• slowing
• slackening
• let-up
• decrease
• setback
• reduced
• shrinking

Crossword Answer definitions

LAG noun

1. A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
2. Delay; latency.
3. One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. A prisoner, a criminal.
5. A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
8. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
9. A bird, the greylag.

LAG verb

1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
3. To transport as a punishment for crime.
4. To cause to lag; to slacken.

LAG adjective

1. Late
2. Last; long-delayed.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

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 LAG

• Dawdle
• Dilly dally
• Fall behind
• Act the snail
• Eightball start
• Fail to keep up
• Fall behind a GAL?
• Dilly-dally
• Problem for a gamer with slow wifi
• Word after jet or time

More clues leading to the result LETUP

• Ease off
• Slacken
• Abatement
• Pause
• Die down
• Diminish
• Abate
• Relax
• Back off
• Relaxed

More clues leading to the result TIEUP

• Snarl
• Result of a traffic jam
• Entanglement
• Use all the resources, say e.g.
• Gridlock
• Traffic snarl
• Traffic problem
• Highway headache
• Traffic jam
• Jam

More clues leading to the result SNAG

• Glitch
• Hidden obstacle
• Unforeseen obstacle
• Unforseen problem
• Cause of a run
• Hangup in the negotiations
• Hoisery mishap
• Run producer
• Stocking spoiler
• Unforseen obstacle