The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LIAR which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2023.
Yarn spinner crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LIAR | 81 % | 4 |
| FABLER | 4 % | 6 |
| NARRATOR | 4 % | 8 |
| WEAVER | 4 % | 6 |
| RACONTEUR | 4 % | 9 |
| RELATER | 4 % | 7 |
Why may LIAR be the right solution?
The word "spin" can mean to tell a tale or story, and a person who tells lies is commonly referred to as a "liar." Therefore, "yarn spinner" is a playful way of referring to someone who tells tall tales or lies.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Yarn spinner
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- spinning wheel
- weaver
- liar
- raconteur
- tale
- skein
- spin
- spinning
- reel
- clotho
- top
- loft
Crossword Answer definitions
LIAR noun- One who tells lies.
- A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
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 LIAR
- Bald-faced one, perhaps
- Fabricator
- Fabulist
- Fact-fudger
- Fibber
- Half a Jim Carrey movie title
- Polygraph flunker
- Prevaricator
- Pseudologist
- Tall tale teller
More clues leading to the result FABLER
More clues leading to the result NARRATOR
- Story teller
- Storyteller
- Role for Che in "Evita"
- Protagonist, often
- Ishmael, in "Moby Dick"
- Holden Caulfield, e.g.
- Ishmael, e.g.
- One doing a voice-over
- Taleteller
- Schéhérazade's role.
More clues leading to the result WEAVER
- Shuttle user
- Dennis of "Duel"
- Loom user
- Sigourney of "Alien"
- Arachne, for example
- Arachne's occupation
- One who works at warp speed?
- Occupation of Silas Marner.
- Maker of cloth.
- Arachne, for example.
More clues leading to the result RACONTEUR
- Anecdotist
- He excels at what he tells
- Storyteller
- National Storytelling Festival VIP
- Baron Munchhausen, for one
- Jessel, notably
- Storyteller.
- Man with a story.
- Talker of a sort
- Yarn spinner