The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word APE which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2025.
Tailless primate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| APE | 77 % | 3 |
| GIBBON | 9 % | 6 |
| HUMAN | 5 % | 5 |
| CHIMP | 5 % | 5 |
| LORIS | 5 % | 5 |
Why may APE be the right solution?
The answer "APE" fits the clue "Tailless primate" because apes are primates that do not have tails.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tailless primate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- ape
- monkey
- gorilla
- chimpanzee
- montezuma
- baboon
- sphinx
- lar
- gibbon
- diana
- sai
- palliation
Crossword Answer definitions
APE noun- A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
- Any such primate other than a human.
- An uncivilised person.
- One who apes; a foolish imitator.
- To behave like an ape.
- To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
- Wild; crazy.
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 APE
- "Going __!" (Danza bomb)
- Act like
- Brutish one
- Copy
- Lummox
- Make like
- O'Neill's "The Hairy __"
- O'Neill's hairy title character
- Rue Morgue culprit
- Aldous Huxley's "__ and Essence"
More clues leading to the result GIBBON
- Siamang
- Smallest of the anthropoid apes
- Lesser ape
- Small Asian ape
- One of the lesser apes
- English historian (1737–94).
- Author of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
- Great historian.
- English M. P. and historian, 18th century.
- Roman Empire expert
More clues leading to the result HUMAN
- __ being
- Earthling
- Kind of race
- Part of a race that includes Sophocles, Guy Fieri, and Indira Gandhi
- ___ cannonball
- ___ condition
- What to err is
- Any of us
- Mortal
- Error-prone, so they say
More clues leading to the result CHIMP
- Garroway's J. Fred Muggs
- Bonobo, e.g., casually
- Tailless primate
- Cornelius or Zira, e.g.
- Early astronaut
- Endangered ape, briefly
- Bear of "B.J. and the Bear"
- Jane Goodall subject
- J. Fred Muggs was one
- Zoo favorite