The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DELED , but the solution may also be XED which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Struck out crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DELED | 29 % | 5 |
| XED | 21 % | 3 |
| EXED | 18 % | 4 |
| DELETED | 15 % | 7 |
| FANNED | 7 % | 6 |
| ELIDED | 4 % | 6 |
| WHIFFED | 1 % | 7 |
| REDLINED | 1 % | 8 |
| KED | 1 % | 3 |
| OMITTED | 1 % | 7 |
| FAILED | 1 % | 6 |
| ERASED | 1 % | 6 |
Why may XED be the right solution?
The answer "XED" is short for "crossed," which is a term often used in crossword puzzles to indicate that something has been removed or eliminated. In this case, "Struck (out)" is a clue hinting at the word "crossed" being abbreviated to "XED."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Struck out
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- strike out
- strikeout
- struck down
- striking
- strike
- strike on
- strike off
- strucken
- stricken
- fastball
- strike down
- pitching
Crossword Answer definitions
DELED verb- (usually imperative) to delete
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 DELED
- Took out
- Struck out
- Taken out of context?
- Did some editing
- Removed from the manuscript
- Marked for exclusion
- Followed a proofreader's recommendation
- Removed from the galleys
- Took out of the text
- Removed by an editor
More clues leading to the result XED
- Crossed (out)
- Crossed out
- Indicated a mistake
- Marked a ballot
- Marked wrong
- Signed like an illiterate
- Made choices in a dialog box
- Marked
- Marked simply
- Marked up
More clues leading to the result EXED
- Marked a ballot
- Crossed out
- Deleted
- Struck out
- Marked, as a ballot
- Crossed (out)
- Deleted, with "out"
- Signed, as a check, maybe
- Struck (out)
- Left one's mark on
More clues leading to the result DELETED
- Struck out
- Taken to the recycling bin?
- Stricken from text
- Crossed out
- Edited out
- Took out, editorially
- Erased
- Taken out
- Removed
- Wiped out
More clues leading to the result FANNED
- Struck out
- Struck out, in baseball
- Agitated
- Spread out
- Fomented
- Stimulated.
- What Casey did.
- Struck out.
- Spread (out).
- Swung and missed
More clues leading to the result ELIDED
- Left out, as a syllable
- Said "bos'n" or "cap'n"
- Said "fo'c'sle," say
- Stricken out
- Skipped over
- Turned nothing into nothin'
- Slurred over, as a syllable
- Omitted in pronunciation
- Skipped over in pronunciation
- Said "ne'er," e.g.
More clues leading to the result WHIFFED
More clues leading to the result REDLINED
More clues leading to the result KED
More clues leading to the result OMITTED
- Left out
- Not in there
- Failed to include
- Failed to mention
- Bypassed
- Forgot about
- Dropped
- Did not include
- Not named.
- Forebore to perform.
More clues leading to the result FAILED
- Struck out
- Went belly up
- Gave out
- Went out of business
- Came up short
- Didn't make it
- Needed to retake, maybe
- Didn't hit the books?
- Fell short
- Came a cropper