The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word REMAIN , but the solution may also be SHADOW which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Stay behind crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REMAIN | 46 % | 6 |
| SHADOW | 15 % | 6 |
| TAIL | 15 % | 4 |
| LAG | 15 % | 3 |
| REIN | 8 % | 4 |
Why may SHADOW be the right solution?
The answer "SHADOW" fits the clue "Stay behind" because a shadow is something that follows or stays behind a person or object as it moves.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stay behind
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stand behind
- stay in
- drop behind
- hang behind
- get behind
- leave behind
- lay behind
- lie behind
- hide behind
- run behind
- fall behind
- stay at home
Crossword Answer definitions
REMAIN noun- (chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.
- (in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
- Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
- State of remaining; stay.
- To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- To await; to be left to.
- To continue in a state of being.
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 REMAIN
- Stay
- Stick around
- With 4-Down, 1980 Talking Heads album
- Go no farther
- Are left
- Hang around
- More of the quip
- Sit tight
- Stay put
- Refuse to leave
More clues leading to the result SHADOW
- Old time radio fare: "The ____"
- Secretly follow
- Dark patch
- Five o'clock feature?
- Phantom
- Silhouette
- "Me and My ___"
- Peter Pan's loss
- Tail
- What Peter Pan lost
More clues leading to the result TAIL
- Follow
- Kite need
- Comet dust
- Garfield's wagger
- Manx cat's lack
- Scut
- Something to pin on a donkey?
- Appendage
- It's pinned on a donkey
- School on the Thames
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