The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word NIX , but the solution may also be OVERRULE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Veto crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NIX | 67 % | 3 |
| KILL | 15 % | 4 |
| OVERRULE | 6 % | 8 |
| NEGATE | 3 % | 6 |
| REJECT | 3 % | 6 |
| TURNDOWN | 2 % | 8 |
| DENIAL | 1 % | 6 |
| NEGATER | 1 % | 7 |
| OVERRIDE | 1 % | 8 |
| BLOCK | 1 % | 5 |
| DISALLOW | 1 % | 8 |
| SAYNO | 1 % | 5 |
Why may OVERRULE be the right solution?
"OVERRULE" is the right solution because it means to reject or disallow a decision or ruling, similar to what a veto does.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Veto
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- blackball
- disallow
- negative
- forbid
- prohibit
- interdict
- proscribe
- overrule
- reject
- block
- oppose
- ban
Crossword Answer definitions
NIX noun- Nothing.
- To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
- To destroy or eradicate.
- A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
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 NIX
- Veto
- Put the kibosh on
- Refuse to allow
- "No way!"
- Cancel
- Strike from the record
- Shoot down
- Give the thumbs-down to
- Reject
- Turn thumbs-down on
More clues leading to the result KILL
- Stop a story
- Stop, as a newspaper story
- Veto
- Display total pwnage
- Leave an audience in the aisles, say
- Cancel, as an article
- Eat the last of
- Dispatch
- Excel at standup comedy
- Unreturnable smash
More clues leading to the result OVERRULE
- Set aside
- Veto, in a way
- Disallow, as an objection
- Reject
- Not sustain, as an objection
- Fail to sustain, as an objection
- Reverse a decision.
- Decide against.
- Reverse a court decision
- Veto
More clues leading to the result NEGATE
More clues leading to the result REJECT
- Send back
- One unsuitable for print, e.g.
- Dismiss
- Discard
- Throw out
- Throw back
- Turn down
- Spurn
- Unwanted item
- Turn down, as a manuscript
More clues leading to the result TURNDOWN
More clues leading to the result DENIAL
- State of refusal
- Refusal
- "Not my problem," e.g.
- No
- Repudiation
- State that may make therapy unproductive
- Common defense mechanism
- "___ is not just a river in Egypt" (rehab motto)
- In ___ (disavowing)
- State that might prompt an intervention
More clues leading to the result NEGATER
More clues leading to the result OVERRIDE
- Rule against
- Veto
- Veto a veto
- Give the thumbs-down to
- Set aside
- Countermand
- Nullify
- Preempt
- Annul, as a veto.
- Outweigh.
More clues leading to the result BLOCK
- Impede
- Obstruct
- Plug
- Word with chopping or stumbling
- ___ party (neighborhood get-together)
- Writer's problem
- "Old" chip producer?
- Building toy
- Inhibit
- Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle