The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MESSES , but the solution may also be MEDDLES which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Tampers (with) crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MESSES | 27 % | 6 |
| RIGS | 27 % | 4 |
| DOCTORS | 18 % | 7 |
| MEDDLES | 18 % | 7 |
| FIDDLES | 9 % | 7 |
Why may MEDDLES be the right solution?
The word "meddles" means to interfere or tamper with something, making it the correct answer to the clue "Tampers (with)."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tampers (with)
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- alters
- changes
- modifies
- hacker
- tamperer
- adulterated
- affected
- altered
- amended
- brakes
- change
- changed
Crossword Answer definitions
MESSES noun- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.
- A large quantity or number.
- Excrement.
- A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- To interfere.
- (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
- Mass; a church service.
- A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
- A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- To take meals with a mess.
- To belong to a mess.
- To eat (with others).
- To supply with a mess.
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 MESSES
- Disarrays
- Tampers (with)
- Big jobs for a maid
- Situations that got out of control
- Neatnik's anathemas
- C.F.B. eateries
- Untidy situations
- Pigpens
- Military meals
- Bad spots
More clues leading to the result RIGS
- "Arranges" a prize fight
- Fixes, as a fight
- Fixes election results
- Sulky and surrey
- Excavates again
- Fixes, as a vote
- Truckers' trucks
- Big haulers
- Fudges the game
- Oil machinery
More clues leading to the result DOCTORS
- Falsifies
- Tampers with
- Cooks, as books
- Some residents
- Part 3 of quip
- Checkup performers
- Schweitzer, Bunche, etc.
- Followers of Hippocrates.
- Paul White and others.
- Barnard and others
More clues leading to the result MEDDLES
- Horns in
- Is a Nosy Parker
- Tampers (with)
- Interferes unnecessarily.
- Interferes
- Acts the yenta
- Sticks one's nose in
- Acts like a quidnunc
- Acts the buttinsky