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 |
| FAILED | 1 % | 6 |
| ERASED | 1 % | 6 |
| WHIFFED | 1 % | 7 |
| REDLINED | 1 % | 8 |
| KED | 1 % | 3 |
| OMITTED | 1 % | 7 |
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 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
More clues leading to the result ERASED
- Deleted
- Freed up some space, in a way
- Rubbed out
- Taken off the tape
- No longer on the board
- Off the board?
- Took out of context?
- Wiped out
- Blotted out
- Did blackboard duty