The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNORE , but the solution may also be OUT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Sound asleep? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNORE | 80 % | 5 |
| ZZZ | 16 % | 3 |
| OUT | 4 % | 3 |
Why may OUT be the right solution?
The phrase "sound asleep" can be interpreted as being completely asleep or in a deep sleep. The word "out" is often used colloquially to mean being unconscious or deeply asleep, making it a fitting answer for this clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sound asleep?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- fast asleep
- asleep
- sleeping at the switch
- away with the fairies
- come-to-bed
- dead on one's feet
- up with the lark
- woke
- come to bed
- flat on one's back
- up with the chickens
- up with the larks
Crossword Answer definitions
SNORE noun- The act of snoring, and the noise produced.
- An extremely boring person or event.
- To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
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 SNORE
- Make noise in bed
- Nightly noises
- Saw wood
- Nocturnal noise
- Saw logs
- Nightly noise
- Be loud in bed?
- Make sound asleep
- Napper's noise
- R.E.M.'s sound?
More clues leading to the result ZZZ
- Comic snoring
- Snoring sound
- Sound of snoring
- Sound of sawing logs?
- Sign of sleep
- Snoring, in comics
- Sound of sawing wood?
- Interjection that's the last entry in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (it requires both blanks)
- Alphabetically last entry in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
- Sound asleep?