The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ELONGATE , but the solution may also be STINT which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Stretch crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ELONGATE | 16 % | 8 |
| CRANE | 10 % | 5 |
| STINT | 10 % | 5 |
| EXPANSE | 9 % | 7 |
| AREA | 8 % | 4 |
| TRACT | 7 % | 5 |
| SPAN | 6 % | 4 |
| EKE | 6 % | 3 |
| TERM | 4 % | 4 |
| REACH | 3 % | 5 |
| LIE | 3 % | 3 |
| DISTEND | 2 % | 7 |
| EXTEND | 2 % | 6 |
| SPELL | 2 % | 5 |
| WIDEN | 1 % | 5 |
| TAUTEN | 1 % | 6 |
| TIME | 1 % | 4 |
| LENGTHEN | 1 % | 8 |
| WHILE | 1 % | 5 |
| STRAIN | 1 % | 6 |
| LOOSENUP | 1 % | 8 |
| YOURLUNCHBREAK | 1 % | 14 |
| EKEOUT | 1 % | 6 |
| SKIMP | 1 % | 5 |
Why may STINT be the right solution?
"Stretch" can mean a period of time spent doing something. "Stint" is a synonym for a fixed or allotted period of work or activity, making it the right answer for this clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stretch
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- elongate
- reach
- reaching
- extend
- stretchiness
- stint
- stretch out
- unfold
- water down
- dilute
- debase
- adulterate
Crossword Answer definitions
ELONGATE verb- To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
- To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- To move to or place at a distance (from something).
- To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
- Lengthened, extended, elongated; relatively long and slender.
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 ELONGATE
- Lengthen
- Scandal at a North Carolina college?
- Stretch
- Draw out
- Extend
- Stretch out
- String out
- Protract
- Stretch out.
- Protract.
More clues leading to the result CRANE
- Hoisting machine
- Large wading bird
- Wrecking-ball swinger
- Wading bird
- Frasier's last name
- Construction-site sight
- Wetlands whooper
- Classic origami piece
- Poet Hart __
- Egg-layer that whoops?
More clues leading to the result STINT
- Assignment
- Cut corners
- Tour of duty
- Stretch
- Hitch
- Be frugal
- Temp job duration
- Time on the job
- Unbroken work period
- Job shift
More clues leading to the result EXPANSE
- Big stretch
- Big spread
- National forest, e.g.
- Wide-open space
- Spread
- Sweep
- Wide area
- Wide open space
- Broad area
- Stretch
More clues leading to the result AREA
- Atlas datum
- Bailiwick
- Carpet seller's calculation
- Code kind
- District
- Field
- L x W
- LAN part
- Locale
- Lot measurement
More clues leading to the result TRACT
- Housing-development site
- Pamphlet
- Suburban subdivision
- Expanse
- Campaign handout
- Political handout
- Propaganda handout
- Protest handout
- Radical's missive
- Pamphleteer's work
More clues leading to the result SPAN
- Bridge
- Extent
- Plane dimension
- C follower
- Connection
- Thumb-to-pinkie distance
- Wingspread
- About nine inches
- C follower on TV
- Extend over
More clues leading to the result EKE
- Barely make do
- Manage, with "out"
- Scratch (out)
- Squeeze (out)
- __ out a living
- Barely manage
- Get with great effort
- Make do
- Scratch out a living
- Supplements (with out)
More clues leading to the result TERM
- Expression
- Quarter or semester
- Set length of time
- Limited period of time
- Semester
- Sentence
- Time that a seat is held
- Contract definition
- Prison ___
- Social studies word
More clues leading to the result REACH
- Arrive at
- Big name in toothbrushes
- Boxer's measurement
- Get to
- Prizefighter's stat
- Arm's length?
- Attain
- Effective range
- Boardinghouse ___
- "Tale of the tape" measure
More clues leading to the result LIE
- "The check is in the mail," often
- Course position
- Fish story
- Flunk a polygraph
- Golfer's consideration
- Make the polygraph go nuts
- Pinocchio's downfall
- Sprawl
- Swear that black is white
- Tell a whopper
More clues leading to the result DISTEND
- Swell
- Dilate
- Stretch out
- Bloat
- Expand.
- Stretch.
- Expand by stretching.
- Stretch out.
- Expand by pressure from within.
- {/Stretch/}
More clues leading to the result EXTEND
- Draw out
- Ask for more Time
- Stretch out
- Prolong
- Postpone, as a deadline
- Stretch outward
- Hold out
- Lengthen
- Broaden
- Drag out
More clues leading to the result SPELL
- Period of time
- Love-potion effect
- Amount to, as doom
- Be in a bee
- Accio or Glisseo in Harry Potter, e.g.
- Casting call?
- Enchantment
- Hex
- Mage's casting
- Magic touch?
More clues leading to the result WIDEN
- Dilate
- Enlarge (as a roadbed)
- Gain some unnecessary weight
- Open up
- Expand
- Spread
- Grow broad
- Broaden
- Improve the road, in a way
- Let out
More clues leading to the result TAUTEN
- Take up the slack
- Give less slack
- Get tight
- Draw tight
- Free of slack
- Get more rigid
- Tense up
- Make tense
- Remove slack from
- Tense up, as muscles
More clues leading to the result TIME
- It's served in prison
- What you may find on your hands
- Five to two or ten to one
- Clock
- Henry Luce's magazine
- ___ Warner
- Ump's call
- Thing said to fly or march on
- It's money, it's said
- Life partner?
More clues leading to the result LENGTHEN
More clues leading to the result WHILE
- Fiddle away, as with time
- Happening at the same time that
- Considerable time
- During the time that
- Sandra Bullock's "___ You Were Sleeping"
- As long as
- Even though
- During
- Vague time period
- Spend leisurely, with "away"
More clues leading to the result STRAIN
- Go beyond the limit
- Air, or pressure
- Overexert
- Exertion
- Considerable effort
- Muscle problem
- Use a sieve
- Variety
- Back problem
- Sports injury
More clues leading to the result LOOSENUP
- "Relax already!"
- "Relax"
- RELAX
- "Take a chill pill!"
- Grow more relaxed
- "Relax!"
- Chill, so to speak
- Get ready to play
- Stretch
- Stretch, say
More clues leading to the result YOURLUNCHBREAK
More clues leading to the result EKEOUT
- Barely make do
- Supplement
- Barely make
- Scrape by
- ___ a living (just get by)
- ___ a living
- Barely make, as a living
- Make laboriously, as a living
- Barely maintain
- Barely manage