The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word FED , but the solution may also be SHORT U which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Up start? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FED | 33 % | 3 |
| SHORT U | 33 % | 7 |
| SHORTU | 33 % | 6 |
Why may SHORTU be the right solution?
The word "up-start" is a play on the word "short" and the answer "SHORTU" is a phonetic spelling of the word "short" with a "U" added at the end.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Up start?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- begin
- boot
- commence
- initiate
- starting
- starts
- beginning
- commences
- creating
- creation
- establishing
- initiating
Crossword Answer definitions
FED noun- A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents.
- A police officer.
- A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- To eat (usually of animals).
- To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- To give to a machine to be processed.
- To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- To supply with something.
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- To pass to.
- (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
- (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result FED
- Given food
- Word with spoon or corn
- Stoked
- Prime rate setter, with "the"
- Top cop
- Across 115 G-man
- Had over for dinner
- G-man
- Gangster-buster
- Added fuel to