The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word AXE , but the solution may also be PATSY which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Tool crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AXE | 23 % | 3 |
| ADZE | 11 % | 4 |
| AWL | 9 % | 3 |
| HOE | 8 % | 3 |
| CATSPAW | 8 % | 7 |
| SAW | 7 % | 3 |
| AUGER | 5 % | 5 |
| RAKE | 3 % | 4 |
| PLIERS | 3 % | 6 |
| SPADE | 2 % | 5 |
| DIE | 2 % | 3 |
| UTENSIL | 2 % | 7 |
| CHISEL | 2 % | 6 |
| ADZ | 2 % | 3 |
| PLANE | 2 % | 5 |
| PICK | 2 % | 4 |
| ROD | 1 % | 3 |
| WRENCH | 1 % | 6 |
| GRAVER | 1 % | 6 |
| SIMP | 1 % | 4 |
| DUPE | 1 % | 4 |
| DOOFUS | 1 % | 6 |
| BIT | 1 % | 3 |
| RASP | 1 % | 4 |
| BORER | 1 % | 5 |
| KIT | 1 % | 3 |
| LEVER | 1 % | 5 |
| TROWEL | 1 % | 6 |
| GIMLET | 1 % | 6 |
| PATSY | 1 % | 5 |
Why may PATSY be the right solution?
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tool
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pecker
- shaft
- prick
- joyride
- puppet
- tool around
- creature
- drive
- dick
- instrument
- cock
- peter
Crossword Answer definitions
AXE noun- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- To fell or chop with an axe.
- To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
- The axle of a wheel.
- To furnish with an axle.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To request permission to do something.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To invite.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
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 AXE
- Boot out
- Bunyan's tool
- Cut
- Fire
- Fireman's tool
- Give the boot
- Paul Bunyan's tool
- Show the door to
- Chop
- Cleaver
More clues leading to the result ADZE
- Tool-shed item
- Wood trimmer
- Wood-dressing tool
- Wood-shaping tool
- Carpentry tool
- Wood ax
- Woodworker's tool
- Woodworking tool
- Wood dresser
- Cutter in a shed
More clues leading to the result AWL
- Boring tool
- Cobbler's tool
- Hole maker
- Sewing tool in LAW?
- Punch in the shop
- Ice pick, for one
- Leatherworker's tool
- Saddler's tool
- Hole puncher
- Hole-punch tool that looks like a screwdriver
More clues leading to the result HOE
- Chop the clods
- Clear the weeds
- Clod chopper
- Garden tool
- Gardener's tool
- Weeder's need
- Weeding tool
- Ground-breaker
- A square dance, with "down"
- Cultivate
More clues leading to the result CATSPAW
- Stooge
- Person serving as a dupe
- Con's target
- Dupe
- One manipulated by another
- Pawn
- Puppet
- Unwitting tool
- Pawn in another's game
- Tool
More clues leading to the result SAW
- Byword
- Observed
- __ wood (snore)
- __-toothed (jagged)
- Circular, for one
- Adage
- Trite saying
- Ice sculptor's need
- Wood cutter
- Gruesome franchise of 2004-2010
More clues leading to the result AUGER
- Hand tool
- It's usually boring
- Some find it boring
- Bore
- It's boring
- Borer with a bit
- Plumber's snake
- Boring tool
- Kind of a bit
- It's generally boring
More clues leading to the result RAKE
- Autumn tool
- Lounge lizard, perhaps
- Sand-trap necessity
- Search thoroughly
- Fall tool
- Leaf removal tool
- Take leaves?
- Toothy tool
- Clean up the yard
- Leaf collector?
More clues leading to the result PLIERS
- Dentistry need, at times
- Tool chest item
- Grasping tool
- Wire-bending tool
- Pair in a toolbox
- Tool box item
- Word after locking or needle-nose
- Tool used in jewelry making
- Wire-bending tools
- Electrician's tool
More clues leading to the result SPADE
- Garden tool
- Detective Sam
- Fictional detective Sam
- Digging tool
- A deck king
- Bogart role in The Maltese Falcon
- Hammett hero
- "They Can Only Hang You Once" sleuth
- Groundbreaker?
- Groundbreaking instrument
More clues leading to the result DIE
- Gambling cube
- Tool and ____ set
- Trivial Pursuit need
- __-hard
- "The ___ is cast." (Caesar)
- Conk out
- It's one you roll
- Cube with dots?
- Gaming cube
- Monopoly cube
More clues leading to the result UTENSIL
- Spork or spife
- Thing used for writing or eating
- Cookie cutter, e.g.
- Scoop, say
- Chopstick, e.g.
- Tongs or grater
- Implement
- Fork or knife
- Kitchen aid
- Funnel or stirrer
More clues leading to the result CHISEL
- Swindle
- Woodworkers' tool
- Cheat
- Get by cheating
- Make a bust, maybe
- Stoneworker's tool
- Wedgelike tool
- Carve in stone
- Sculpting tool
- Flimflam
More clues leading to the result ADZ
- Carpenter's tool
- Timber-dressing tool
- Wood dresser
- Wood-shop tool
- Woodworking tool
- Timber tool
- "The Age of ___" (2010 Sufjan Stevens album)
- Canoe-maker's tool
- It has a curved head
- Timberjack's tool
More clues leading to the result PLANE
- Smooth out
- Vapor-trail producer
- Flat surface
- Carpenter's tool
- Cessna, e.g.
- Evening aid
- Kayak.com conveyance, ironically
- Two-dimensional surface
- Smoothing tool
- Tarmac taxier
More clues leading to the result PICK
- Select
- Make a selection
- Choose
- Play the banjo
- Prospector's tool
- Provoke, as a fight
- Guitar-playing tool
- Guitarist's tool
- Tease, with "on"
- "___ a card, any card..."
More clues leading to the result ROD
- Mr. Serling
- "Spare the __ ..."
- Cone's counterpart
- Five-and-a-half yards
- "The Twilight Zone" creator Serling
- Hood armament
- Serling of "The Pawnbroker"
- Staff
- Fishing pole
- Retina cell
More clues leading to the result WRENCH
- Nut turner
- Bolt turner
- Tool for a monkey?
- A type of one begins the answers to starred clues
- Mechanic's tool
- Plumber's tool.
- Tool.
- Jerk
- Twister?
- Twist badly
More clues leading to the result GRAVER
More clues leading to the result SIMP
More clues leading to the result DUPE
More clues leading to the result DOOFUS
More clues leading to the result BIT
- A chuck holds it
- Part of a stand-up's act
- Took the bait
- Small theatrical part
- Tiny amount
- Fed from, as a vampire or a mosquito
- Drill piece
- Comic shtick
- Rein check
- Came down on your elbows?
More clues leading to the result RASP
- Coarse file
- File
- Grating sound
- Harsh sound
- Grate
- Not sound smooth
- Sound like Demi Moore or Marlene Dietrich
- Croak
- Farrier's tool
- Croaking voice
More clues leading to the result BORER
- Hole-making pest
- Shipworm or hagfish
- Drilling tool
- Bug found in trunks
- Hole maker
- Destructive insect
- Hole-making bug
- Drill
- Auger, e.g.
- Drilling bug
More clues leading to the result KIT
- Carson of the west
- Model, before assembly
- "Knight Rider" car
- Set of parts to be assembled
- Frontiersman Carson
- Model plane assembly
- Press ___
- Baby 52-Across
- Drum ___
- Drummer's set-up
More clues leading to the result LEVER
- It rests on a fulcrum
- Archimedean tool
- __ Brothers (Detergent makers)
- Simplest of machines
- Simple machine
- Bottle opener, e.g.
- Crowbar at work
- Archimedean world mover
- Pry bar
- Jimmy
More clues leading to the result TROWEL
- Cement smoother
- It'll make your work smoother?
- Little shovel
- Mason's tool
- Digger in the garden
- Gardener's tool
- Soil digger
- Bed-making tool
- Cement worker's tool
- Plasterer's tool
More clues leading to the result GIMLET
- Small hand tool
- Rickey's relative
- Vodka cocktail
- Gin-and-lime-juice cocktail
- Cocktail made with lime juice and vodka
- Lime-laced libation
- Vodka and lime juice cocktail
- ____ -eyed: sharp-sighted
- Lime-flavored cocktail
- Small tool with screw point.