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 |
| PLIERS | 3 % | 6 |
| RAKE | 3 % | 4 |
| SPADE | 2 % | 5 |
| DIE | 2 % | 3 |
| UTENSIL | 2 % | 7 |
| ADZ | 2 % | 3 |
| PICK | 2 % | 4 |
| PLANE | 2 % | 5 |
| CHISEL | 2 % | 6 |
| WRENCH | 1 % | 6 |
| DUPE | 1 % | 4 |
| GRAVER | 1 % | 6 |
| SIMP | 1 % | 4 |
| BIT | 1 % | 3 |
| DOOFUS | 1 % | 6 |
| RASP | 1 % | 4 |
| LEVER | 1 % | 5 |
| BORER | 1 % | 5 |
| KIT | 1 % | 3 |
| TROWEL | 1 % | 6 |
| GIMLET | 1 % | 6 |
| PATSY | 1 % | 5 |
| ROD | 1 % | 3 |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 DUPE
More clues leading to the result GRAVER
More clues leading to the result SIMP
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 DOOFUS
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 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 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 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.
More clues leading to the result PATSY
- Sucker
- "Crazy" singer Cline
- "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline
- Dupe
- Fall guy
- Easy mark
- Cline of country
- Pushover
- Swindler's victim
- Easily duped sort