The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LEAN which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2020.
Spare crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LEAN | 53 % | 4 |
| TIRE | 12 % | 4 |
| EXTRA | 10 % | 5 |
| THIN | 8 % | 4 |
| SLIM | 5 % | 4 |
| AUSTERE | 3 % | 7 |
| LANKY | 2 % | 5 |
| LENTEN | 2 % | 6 |
| EXTRAONE | 2 % | 8 |
| MINIMAL | 1 % | 7 |
| LETLIVE | 1 % | 7 |
| SAVE | 1 % | 4 |
| GOEASYON | 1 % | 8 |
| MEAGER | 1 % | 6 |
| LANK | 1 % | 4 |
| TIREINTHETRUNK | 1 % | 14 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Spare
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- scanty
- meagerly
- meager
- bare
- thin
- trim
- redundant
- unoccupied
- dispense with
- unneeded
- unnecessary
- free
Crossword Answer definitions
LEAN noun- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
- To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To press against.
- Meat with no fat on it.
- An organism that is lean in stature.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
- Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing"
- To conceal.
- A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
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 LEAN
- Like Spratt
- Like superior deli meat
- Low in fat, meatwise
- Deli order add-on
- "Lawrence of Arabia" director
- Bend away from the vertical
- Like Jack Sprat
- Rangy
- Sprat's preference
- "Ryan's Daughter" director
More clues leading to the result TIRE
- Get bored
- It's a spare for a flat
- Poop out
- Run out of gas
- Trunk item
- Be fed up with
- Wear down
- Wear out
- Fatigue
- Akron export
More clues leading to the result EXTRA
- Crowd-scene participant
- Movie bit player
- Page-one word
- Street vendor's cry, once
- Crowd scene player
- Movie walk-on
- Newspaper boy's cry
- Bonus
- Not standard
- Additional
More clues leading to the result THIN
More clues leading to the result SLIM
- Actor Pickens
- Narrow of shape
- Pickens, the actor
- Lose it
- Willowy
- Fat free?
- Highly unlikely
- Nigh impossible
- Unlikely
- Carlos ___ (Mexican businessman who has a controlling interest in the New York Times)
More clues leading to the result AUSTERE
- Astringent
- Self-disciplined
- Hardly lavish
- Strait-laced
- Forbidding
- Spartan
- Like Spartan living
- Stark
- Unadorned
- Like monastic life
More clues leading to the result LANKY
- Ungracefully thin
- Gangling
- Ungainly
- Like many Olympic high jumpers
- Like some long-limbed people
- Tall and spare
- Thin and rawboned
- Tall and thin
- Long-limbed
- Hardly obese
More clues leading to the result LENTEN
- Fast time season
- Meager
- Pre-Easter
- Pertaining to the pre-Easter time
- Of fast times?
- Austere
- Meager, as fare
- Of a fast period
- Of a spring season
- Like the season before Easter
More clues leading to the result EXTRAONE
More clues leading to the result MINIMAL
- Least possible
- Smallest
- Token
- Barely adequate
- As small as possible
- Barely enough
- Spare
- Least possible.
- Smallest.
- Least.
More clues leading to the result LETLIVE
- Show mercy to a condemned man
- "Live and ____": Schiller
- Don't bother
- Don't annoy
- "Live and ___"
- End of a well-known adage
- Spare, as a gladiator
- Spare
More clues leading to the result SAVE
- Conserve
- Except for
- Sale-ad word
- Computer command
- Redeem
- Goalie's goal
- Smart command to use when you've been working on a document for a while
- Solo success
- Except
- Squirrel away
More clues leading to the result GOEASYON
More clues leading to the result MEAGER
More clues leading to the result LANK
- Long and lean
- Limp, of hair
- Slender
- Tall and thin
- Rangy
- Long and slender
- Unduly long and slender, as grass
- Lean
- Slender and thin
- Gaunt