The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REPEL which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2019.
Turn back crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REPEL | 58 % | 5 |
| REVERT | 17 % | 6 |
| ZAG | 8 % | 3 |
| REPULSE | 6 % | 7 |
| SPURN | 6 % | 5 |
| RESET | 3 % | 5 |
| RETROVERT | 3 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Turn back
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- double back
- backtrack
- regress
- revert
- return
- stop
- drive out
- drive off
- chase away
- contain
- arrest
- hold back
Crossword Answer definitions
REPEL verb- To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
- To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
- To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
- To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
- To force away by means of a repulsive force.
- To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
- To save (a shot).
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 REPEL
More clues leading to the result REVERT
- Return to a former condition
- Backslide
- Go back (to a previous version)
- Go back to square one
- Backslide, perhaps
- Go back to the way you were
- Fall back on old ways
- Go back (to), as a habit
- Return, as to a past practice
- Go back
More clues leading to the result ZAG
- Sharp turn
- Zig-___
- Half a drunken path
- Move unpredictably
- Turn one way
- Veer this way
- Abrupt turn
- Deke direction
- Make a sharp turn
- Turn suddenly
More clues leading to the result REPULSE
- Drive back
- Really offend
- Ward off
- More than turn off
- Force back, as an army
- Turn off
- Disgust
- Beat back
- Drive back, as an enemy
- Turn back
More clues leading to the result SPURN
- Give the cold-shoulder
- Look down on
- Reject disdainfully
- Reject with scorn
- Turn a cold shoulder to
- Brush aside
- Reject roughly
- Blow off
- Cold-shoulder
- Give the cold shoulder to
More clues leading to the result RESET
- Adjust
- Adjust the alarm
- Bowler's button
- Bowling-alley button
- Computer button
- Start over, in bowling
- Timer button
- Bowling alley button
- CTRL-ALT-DEL alternative
- Put back to zero