The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REAR , but the solution may also be MAT which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in New York Times).
Something to fall back on crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REAR | 32 % | 4 |
| HEINIE | 26 % | 6 |
| PLANB | 11 % | 5 |
| PRAT | 11 % | 4 |
| MAT | 11 % | 3 |
| DAYLIGHTSAVINGS | 5 % | 15 |
| ALIBI | 5 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Something to fall back on
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- reserve
- backup
- spare
- portable
- backlog
- carry
- bearable
- convey
- back
- store up
- deliver
- delivery
Crossword Answer definitions
REAR verb- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- To rise up on the hind legs
- (usually with "up") To get angry.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To lift and take up.
- To rouse; to strip up.
- To move; stir.
- (of geese) To carve.
- (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
- (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- (of meats) Rare.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
- Early; soon
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 REAR
- Bring up
- Hitchcock's "____ Window"
- Hitchcock's window
- Kind of guard or end
- Last one brings it up
- Rise high in the air
- Backseat
- Duff
- Hindquarters
- Stern
More clues leading to the result HEINIE
More clues leading to the result PLANB
- Backup procedure
- The alternative
- Backup
- Bounce-back strategy
- If-all-goes-wrong-the-first-time scheme
- What to try when the first attempt fails
- Ancillary strategy
- Fallback option
- Idea following a setback
- Backup strategy
More clues leading to the result PRAT
- Fall preceder
- Duff, slangily
- Start to fall?
- Bottom
- Derrière, slangily
- Backside
- Backside, in slang
- Kind of fall?
- Fall lead-in?
- Beginning of fall?
More clues leading to the result MAT
- Decorative picture border
- Place for a half-nelson
- WWF surface
- Ring covering
- Wrestler's surface
- Wrestling site
- Bath rug
- Floor covering
- Gymnastics apparatus
- Tatami, e.g.
More clues leading to the result DAYLIGHTSAVINGS
- Summer time
- March-November period
- "Spring forward" time
- Hawaii doesn't observe it
- Noon at the bank
- Annual time
- Dracula's least favorite time?
- "Spring forward" and "fall back" plan
- It begins in the spring
- Hawaii doesn't observe it (var.)