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 |
| EXTRAONE | 2 % | 8 |
| LANKY | 2 % | 5 |
| LENTEN | 2 % | 6 |
| GOEASYON | 1 % | 8 |
| MEAGER | 1 % | 6 |
| TIREINTHETRUNK | 1 % | 14 |
| LANK | 1 % | 4 |
| MINIMAL | 1 % | 7 |
| LETLIVE | 1 % | 7 |
| SAVE | 1 % | 4 |
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 EXTRAONE
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 GOEASYON
More clues leading to the result MEAGER
More clues leading to the result TIREINTHETRUNK
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
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