The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STONES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
They're the pits crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STONES | 23 % | 6 |
| SEEDS | 23 % | 5 |
| OLIVETHROWAWAYS | 8 % | 15 |
| ABYSSES | 8 % | 7 |
| AUTORACERSSTOPS | 8 % | 15 |
| NADIRS | 8 % | 6 |
| ORCHESTRASAREAS | 8 % | 15 |
| ABYSMS | 8 % | 6 |
| CHASMS | 8 % | 6 |
Why may STONES be the right solution?
The answer "STONES" fits the clue "They’re the pits" because pits can refer to the hard inner part of fruits like peaches or cherries, which are often called stones.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: They're the pits
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- pucks
- acne
- alveolate
- alveolus
- borrow pit
- camp
- cavitation
- clean
- cleaned
- disk
- foveate
Crossword Answer definitions
STONES noun- A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
- A small piece of stone, a pebble.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
- The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- A hard, stone-like deposit.
- A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- A mirror, or its glass.
- A testicle of an animal.
- A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone.
- To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- To wall with stones.
- To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
- To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
- Testicles; balls.
- Courage.
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 STONES
- Ezra and Sharon
- Rock group
- Rolling musicians?
- Some are precious
- Paving pieces
- Mick's band
- Tortures, in medieval times
- "Ruby Tuesday" band, with "The"
- Pebbles
- Skippers on the water
More clues leading to the result SEEDS
- Bird-feeder fill
- It's for the birds
- Navel orange's lack
- Pomegranate's interior, essentially
- Tourney ranks
- Pre-tournament favorites
- Roll toppers
- Sows
- Tournament rankings
- Burpee's wares
More clues leading to the result OLIVETHROWAWAYS
More clues leading to the result ABYSSES
- Vast chasms
- Unfathomable chasms
- Chasms
- Gulfs
- Bottomless pits
- Yawning depths
- Bottomless chasms
- Depths
- Depths.
- Black holes, e.g.
More clues leading to the result AUTORACERSSTOPS
More clues leading to the result NADIRS
- Lowest points
- Low points
- Lowest of low points
- Depths
- Lows
- Rock-bottoms
- Bottoms
- Bedrocks
- Lowest points.
- Times of greatest depression.
More clues leading to the result ORCHESTRASAREAS
More clues leading to the result ABYSMS
- They're the pits
- Bottomless places
- Unfathomable deeps
- Bottomless pits
- Bottomless gulfs.
- Depths: Poet.
- Chasms, to Cowper
- Bottomless pits (var.)
- Deep gulfs