The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word IRKS , but the solution may also be RANKLES which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Vexes crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| IRKS | 36 % | 4 |
| GALLS | 14 % | 5 |
| RILES | 9 % | 5 |
| ROILS | 8 % | 5 |
| IRES | 6 % | 4 |
| NETTLES | 5 % | 7 |
| ANNOYS | 4 % | 6 |
| RANKLES | 4 % | 7 |
| BOTHERS | 3 % | 7 |
| TEASES | 3 % | 6 |
| EATSAT | 2 % | 6 |
| FRETS | 2 % | 5 |
| BUGS | 1 % | 4 |
| ANGERS | 1 % | 6 |
| PEEVES | 1 % | 6 |
| HARASSES | 1 % | 8 |
| MIFFS | 1 % | 5 |
| HARROWS | 1 % | 7 |
Why may PEEVES be the right solution?
The answer to "Vexes" is "PEEVES" because "peevish" is a word that means easily irritated or annoyed, which is synonymous with vexing or causing frustration.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Vexes
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- irritate
- annoy
- bother
- rile
- rag
- nark
- get at
- devil
- gravel
- nettle
- get to
- ires
Crossword Answer definitions
IRKS verb- To irritate; annoy; bother
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 IRKS
More clues leading to the result GALLS
- Rankles
- Turns the stomach
- Vexes
- Bothers a lot
- Irritates
- Maddens
- Grates on
- Exasperates
- Angers
- Really ticks off
More clues leading to the result RILES
- Nettles
- Gets one's goat
- Makes hopping mad
- Incites to pique
- Makes mad
- Annoys, with "up"
- Irritates
- Aggravates
- Engages in rabble-rousing
- Pesters
More clues leading to the result ROILS
More clues leading to the result IRES
More clues leading to the result NETTLES
- Henpeck
- Annoys
- Really irritates
- Graig of the Yankees
- Irks
- Provokes
- Prickly plants
- Irritates
- Gets under one's skin
- Plants with stinging hairs
More clues leading to the result ANNOYS
- Pesters
- Bothers
- Gets one's goat
- Drives up the wall
- Bugs
- Makes cross
- Rankles
- Rattles one's cage
- Ticks off
- Irks
More clues leading to the result RANKLES
- Annoys
- Irritates
- Irks
- Irritates continually
- Festers
- Vexes
- Really irritates
- Festers.
- Keeps bitter resentments.
- Causes long-term resentment.
More clues leading to the result BOTHERS
More clues leading to the result TEASES
More clues leading to the result EATSAT
- Bothers
- Really bothers
- Aggravates
- Bothers over time
- Corrodes
- Gnaws on
- Erodes
- Patronizes, as a restaurant
- Worries
- Consternates continuously
More clues leading to the result FRETS
- Stews
- Worries
- Broods
- Guitar ridges
- Neck segments
- Guitar features
- Neck lines
- Is vexed
- Borrows trouble
- Bars on necks
More clues leading to the result BUGS
- Runtime errors, say
- Toon hurler with a "pachydermous percussion pitch"
- "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque" toon
- "Of course you realize ... this mean's war" speaker
- He should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque
- Programmer's banes
- Quarry of Elmer
- Computer programmer's goofs
- Elmer's nemesis
- Creepy-crawlies
More clues leading to the result ANGERS
- Puts out
- Stirs up
- Incites to ire
- Brings to a boil?
- Riles up
- Burns up
- Infuriates
- Arouses wrath in
- Ticks off
- Maddens
More clues leading to the result PEEVES
- Certain pets?
- Annoyances
- Annoys
- Gets under the skin of
- Buggers?
- Irks some?
- Ticks off
- "Pet" sources of irritation
- Pet problems?
- Thorns in one's side
More clues leading to the result HARASSES
More clues leading to the result MIFFS
- Annoys
- Tees off
- Offends
- Ticks off
- Puts out
- Irritates
- Makes angry
- Really annoys
- Offends: Slang.
- Offends: Colloq.